by Dan Mitchell | Aug 16, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Bad policies (industrial policy, protectionism, rent control, minimum wage laws, etc) have a common feature, which is that politicians are trying to replace the “spontaneous order” of markets with intervention and planning. In this new video, John...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 14, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
When I visited Argentina last November to give some speeches, I expressed a lot of pessimism and rhetorically asked whether the country could be rescued. In a column earlier this month, I followed up with two reasons for why Argentina is a basket...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 26, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
The federal government screws up some big things (Social Security, health care, higher education, etc). This video shows it also screws up on targeted issues. The clear message is that the federal government has very bad policies that are hurting Native...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 15, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
There is a recipe for achieving growth and prosperity and I used a grade-point-average analogy earlier this year to explain why it is important to get all the ingredients correct. Let’s look at some empirical data. I wrote back in March about the Heritage...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 26, 2023 | Blogs, Free Market
I first started complaining about bad economic policy in Ukraine nearly 10 years ago. But since I routinely criticize bad policy around the world, that was not special (and since politicians at home and abroad generally ignore my advice, it...
