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 –...
by Dan Mitchell | May 7, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Taxation
I’m doing my third field trip to the United Nations. In 2012, I spoke at a conference that was grandiosely entitled, “The High Level Thematic Debate on the State of the World Economy.” I was a relatively lonely voice trying to explain that a bigger burden of...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 12, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Europe
Thanks to the glorious miracle of capitalism, I’m writing this column 36,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean. I’m on my way back from Europe, where I ground through about a dozen presentations as part of a swing through 10 countries. Most of my speeches were about the...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 7, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
Donald Trump and other populist leaders frequently are condemned for undermining the “rules-based system” that is the basis of the “postwar order.” What exactly is meant by this criticism? In the case of Trump, is it disapproval of his protectionism? Yes, but that’s...
