by Dan Mitchell | Feb 22, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I wrote three days ago about the worst-international-bureaucracy contest between the International Monetary Fund and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. A reader emailed to ask me whether I had a favorite international bureaucracy. I confess...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 24, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
One of the interesting things I’ve noticed in my world travels is that supporters of free markets and small government generally are known as “liberals” everywhere other than North America. I think the rest of the world has the right idea. After all, folks like Adam...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 23, 2017 | Blogs, Free Market
The biggest Thanksgiving tradition in America is a turkey dinner. Some people also have a secondary tradition of watching football. But libertarians can be a bit quirky, so my secondary tradition has been to periodically share (in 2010, in 2013, and in 2016) a video...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 14, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Over the past few weeks, I’ve written several columns about the 100th anniversary of communism. I’ve looked at that evil ideology’s death toll, and I’ve written about the knaves and fools who defended and promoted communism in the west (included, sad to say, some...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 29, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I fully agree with my leftist friends who say that corporations want to extract every penny they can from consumers. I also (mostly) agree with them when they say corporations are soulless entities that don’t care about people. But after they’re done venting, I then...
