by Dan Mitchell | Dec 29, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Six years ago, I showed that the United States would be as poor as Mexico if there had been 1-percentage point less annual growth over the past 125 years. John Norberg makes a similar comparison between Sweden and Albania. The entire video is worth...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 15, 2024 | Blogs, Free Market
Every previous column in this series (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, and Part VI) has featured a video. I’m going to break that pattern today and instead start with this profoundly important tweet. The first part of the tweet...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 10, 2024 | Blogs, Free Market
Today is the one-year anniversary of Javier Milei’s inauguration as President of Argentina. Let’s start our celebration with this video from Reason. To grasp the challenge Milei faced upon taking office, I recommend you watch every second of the video. But if you...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 26, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
In Part I of this series, I looked at how President Milei has achieved an amazing level of spending restraint in just one year. For Part II, let’s look at his ultimate objective. As he explains in this video, he wants Argentina to be the world’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 18, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Five years ago, I defended the “Washington Consensus” of the 1980s and 1990s. …the “Washington Consensus”…was a term that was used to describe the kind of policy advice in those days provided to (or imposed upon) the developing world by the IMF, World Bank,...
