by Dan Mitchell | Oct 24, 2019 | Blogs, Free Market
By every possible measure, Chile is the most successful country in Latin America. Income has soared and poverty has plummeted thanks to market-based reforms. It’s not perfect, of course. The nation’s economic freedom score – 7.89 on a 0-10 scale – is good enough for a...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 28, 2019 | Blogs
I’ve created a new page to showcase various “Poverty Hucksters.” These are people and institutions that use data about income distribution to mislead and lie about the prevalence of poverty in the United States. This rogue’s gallery includes: The Organization for...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 11, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I first opined about Pope Francis in 2013, when I told a BBC audience why the Pope was wrong on economic policy. The following year, I expanded on that point, explaining that statist policies are bad for the poor. And I revisited the issue again last year. I’m not the...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 13, 2019 | Blogs, Economic Growth
I religiously read just about everything from Thomas Sowell, John Stossel, Walter Williams, Tim Carney, and other libertarian-minded experts But I also make a point to regularly read non-libertarians such as Desmond Lachman, Will Wilkinson, Dalibor Rohac, and Noah...
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...
