by Dan Mitchell | Jun 8, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
I have a special page called Poverty Hucksters, which features people or institutions (such as the Obama Administration, Steven Greenhouse, and the United Nations) that have deliberately lied about poverty. No person has ever been featured more...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 6, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Here are three options when contemplating Germany’s biggest economic challenge. Is it the growing burden of government, which likely will worsen over time because of demographic factors? Is it extreme environmental policies that have spiked energy costs and undermined...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 22, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs
Regular readers know I have a skeptical attitude about Donald Trump. His first term was a mix of good and bad policies and I expect a similar jumble of good and bad policies in his second term. Consider, for instance, the commonly held...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 1, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
I sometimes make the theoretical case against socialism. Usually, this means exposing the flaws of the core components of the socialist ideology. Government ownership of the means of production is a recipe for resource misallocation. Central planning has a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 30, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
What’s the most unfortunate country in the world? North Korea? Zimbabwe? Cuba? Those are three good answers, but another option is Venezuela. Just a few decades ago, it was the richest nation in Latin America and life seemed very nice. But then the...
