by Dan Mitchell | Apr 8, 2020 | Blogs, Health Care
Reviewing public policy and the coronavirus, I’ve mostly focused on the manifest failures of Washington bureaucracies. But let’s not overlook the politicized incompetence of the World Health Organization, a U.N.-connected bureaucracy that ostensibly exists to prevent...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 27, 2019 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’m a big fan of globalization, so does that make me a globalist? That depends on what is meant by that term. If it means free trade and peaceful interaction with other nations, the answer is yes. But if it means global governance by anti-market bureaucracies such as...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 10, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
A few years ago, I put together a basic primer on corporate taxation. Everything I wrote is still relevant, but I didn’t include much discussion about international topics. In part, that’s because those issues are even more wonky and more boring than domestic issues...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 1, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
Speaking in Europe earlier this year, I tried to explain the entire issue of tax competition is less than nine minutes. To some degree, those remarks were an updated version of a video I narrated back in 2010. You’ll notice that I criticized the Organization for...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 28, 2019 | Blogs, Europe
Back in 2016, I wrote “The Economic Case for Brexit.” My argument was based on the fact the European Union was a slowly sinking ship, both because of grim demographics and bad public policy. Getting in a lifeboat can be unnerving, but Brexit was – and still is –...
