by Dan Mitchell | Apr 27, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Europe, Trade
Recent years have been very depressing for supporters of free trade. Trump pushed protectionist policies. Now Biden is pushing protectionist policies. And the European Union is pushing protectionist policies using global warming as an excuse. More...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 25, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Government Spending, Taxation
What’s the main fiscal and/or economic problem in the European Union? Is it that the burden of taxes and spending is very onerous today?Or is it that the burden of taxes and spending will become more onerous in the future? The easy and correct...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 14, 2022 | Blogs, Europe, Trade
For the first 50-plus years of my life, free trade was in the ascendancy. Policy makers had learned a big lesson from the Great Depression about how protectionism was economic poison, and various trade agreements after World War II helped...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 28, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Europe
The European Union started as a good idea (unfettered free trade between member nations) and has morphed into a troubling idea (a super-state based on centralization, harmonization, and bureaucratization). And I fear it is heading further in...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
As part of a panel discussion with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, I explained (with a frozen look) why spending caps (such as Switzerland’s “debt brake“) are better than balanced budget requirements. This is a topic I’ve written about many times, noting that even...
