by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Last year, I wrote “good riddance” columns for Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau. Today, let’s bid a not-so-fond farewell to Viktor Orbán, the long-serving (2010-2026) but just-rejected Prime Minister of Hungary. My main gripe with Orbán is that he moved his...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 14, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I have a five-part series (here, here, here, here, and here) explaining that demographic decline will lead to fiscal crisis. The main takeaway is that entitlement programs are a ticking time bomb, and I castigate politicians who want...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 9, 2025 | Blogs
After Friday’s column ranking American presidents, a reader emailed to ask about ranking foreign leaders. I responded by stating that Javier Milei is easily the best in the world. And it’s not even close. Beyond that, I didn’t have any...
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 | Apr 27, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
My original intent today was to write about Hungary’s economic policy, presumably focusing on the country’s sometimes good and sometimes bad tax policies. Why Hungary? Because I’m in Budapest for the next stop on the Free Market Road...
