by Dan Mitchell | Dec 15, 2024 | Blogs, Free Market
Every previous column in this series (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, and Part VI) has featured a video. I’m going to break that pattern today and instead start with this profoundly important tweet. The first part of the tweet...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 3, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
I frequently cite a column I wrote in 2017 about how 1980-2010 was a reasonably good era for China, thanks to a bit of economic liberalization. My leftist friends will say that can’t be true because inequality increased during those decades. I respond...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 7, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
As I wrote in both 2020 and earlier this year, Kamala Harris is worse than Joe Biden on economic issues. Heck, based on an analysis of spending proposals in the 2020 race, she’s even worse than Bernie Sanders. What worries me most is that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 19, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
After yesterday’s column about China’s economic challenges, I was planning on writing today about the results of this week’s high-level policy meeting in Beijing. Sadly, no bold reforms were proposed. That lack of action may be worth a column in the next day or two,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 17, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
I wrote yesterday that I’m in China this week, teaching at Northeastern University in Shenyang. This gives me a good excuse to write a series of columns about Chinese economic policy. Our first entry was about demographics, which is a challenge in China (as well as...
