by Darren Brady Nelson | Aug 22, 2018 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Cayman Financial Review on August 20, 2018. It was widely reported by the media around the world in mid-June that U.S. President Donald Trump had “blown up” the Group of Seven (G-7) in the wake of their annual summit held this year in Quebec...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 16, 2018 | Blogs, Free Market
With the possible exception of a few extreme environmentalists, everyone agrees that robust long-run growth is a key to a better society. An unprecedented jump in growth, for instance, is what enabled the western world to escape poverty, resulting in the famous...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 24, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
I’m in China this week, giving various lectures at Northeastern University in Shenyang. My topic today was “Real-World Examples,” which gave me an opportunity to share many of the charts I’ve developed showing how market-oriented nations enjoy much more long-run...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2018 | Blogs, Free Market
The good news is that Donald Trump is not imitating all of Herbert Hoover’s statist policies. The bad news, as I explain in this interview, is that his protectionist mistakes could trigger a repeat of Hoover’s beggar-thy-neighbor protectionism that wreaked havoc in...
by Dan Mitchell | May 27, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Flat Tax, Free Market, Taxation
Normally when I write about Georgia, it’s to wax poetic about the Glorious Bulldogs. But I’m currently in Tbilisi, the capital of the nation of Georgia, which is wedged between Russia, Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. So allow me to take this opportunity to highlight...
