by Dan Mitchell | Oct 6, 2025 | Blogs, Europe
I left Iceland this morning, where I spoke at a conference examining whether that island nation in the North Atlantic should join the European Union. My speech focused on the European Union’s economic performance (which is anemic and on...
by Dan Mitchell | May 5, 2025 | Blogs, Trade
The biggest economic threat facing most developed nations is almost surely the combination of demographic change and poorly designed entitlement programs. Simply stated, that’s a recipe for terrible tax and spending policy and also could...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
As I explained in this 2010 video, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is an international bureaucracy based in Paris that advocates for higher taxes and bigger government. I then wrote in 2011 that eliminating subsidies for this...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 31, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
If Joe Biden and Kamala Harris proposed to give taxpayer funds to pro-tax, pro-spending groups like the Center for American Progress or the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Republicans presumably would argue against handouts. After all, why...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 10, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
Five years ago, I wrote that globalization is good, but that global governance is bad. That’s because globalization (as I define it) means free trade and other forms of cross-border economic activity. All of which is very consistent...
