by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2011 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Economics
Okay, the title’s an exaggeration, but this chart is rather revealing. It shows how per-capita GDP has changed between 1980 and 2008 in Chile, Argentina, and Venezuela. As you can see, Chile used to be the poorest of the three countries and now it is comparatively...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 12, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
Having just done a blog post where I explained that government should stay neutral in fights between labor and management in the private sector, let’s look at a real-world example to understand why. The millionaire owners and millionaire players from the National...
by CF&P | Mar 10, 2011 | News, Press Releases
Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation For Immediate Release Monday, March 10, 2011 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org CF&P Announces Winners of 2010 Free Market Video Contest (Washington, D.C., Thursday, March 10, 2011) The Center for Freedom and...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 2, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
Ronald Reagan would have been 100 years old on February 6, so let’s celebrate his life by comparing the success of his pro-market policies with the failure of Barack Obama’s policies (which are basically a continuation of George W. Bush’s policies, so this is not a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I prefer the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World over the Heritage/WSJ Index of Economic Freedom, not because I’m an expert on the methodology of the two publications, but for the simple reason that I assume Economic Freedom of the World must be slightly...
