by Dan Mitchell | Jul 8, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I’ve written extensively about the amazing libertarian reforms being implemented by Javier Milei in Argentina. Here’s a very short video celebrating his accomplishments. Except the headline of this column is misleading. What’s happening in Argentina is super...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 26, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
While Poland in recent years has received some very positive attention for the way it is converging with richer countries, the same is not true for Hungary. Indeed, it recently got some negative publicity. According to data from the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 21, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
In Part VII of this series about Javier Milei’s libertarian policies in Argentina, I celebrated a 10-percentage point reduction in the nation’s poverty rate. That’s amazing progress in a short amount of time. As shown in this updated chart,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 10, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
A major theme of my daily columns is that economic freedom is a universal recipe for faster growth and better economic performance. But the flip side is that statist policies inevitably lead to less prosperity. And these statements are true...
by Dan Mitchell | May 24, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Socialism
I’m baffled that anybody who is both knowledgeable and well-meaning can choose some strain of collectivism (socialism, fascism, communism, etc) over capitalism. It should be a slam dunk for free enterprise, assuming the goal is...
