by Dan Mitchell | Feb 16, 2022 | Blogs, Free Market
When I first wrote about the Index of Economic Freedom back in 2010, the United States was comfortably among the world’s 10-freest nations with a score of 78 out of 100. By last year, America had dropped to #20, with a very mediocre score of 74.8....
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 30, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I only share long videos when they satisfy key criteria, such as being very informative and very educational. This video from Arthur Brooks is both. What I like most is that he does a very good job of showing that concern for the disadvantaged is the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 27, 2022 | Blogs, Free Market
There were many notable tweets in 2021. The tweet of the yearThe most morally reprehensible tweetThe most depressing tweet (for the left)The best counter-tweet I realize there are still more than 11 months left in 2022, but we may have a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 8, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I have shared five videos (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, and Part V) that make the case for capitalism. Here’s a sixth example. The video notes that poverty was the natural condition for humanity (notwithstanding the economic...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 6, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Welfare and Entitlements
I created the Eighth Theorem of Government to illustrate the difference between well-meaning people (who want to help the poor) and zero-sum people (who seem to think some people are poor because other people are rich). This raises the...
