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...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 5, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I’m currently in Chile, enjoying the warm sun and doing research on the nation’s impressive economic performance. I met yesterday with Jose Pinera, the former minister who created Chile’s incredibly successful system of personal retirement accounts (he’s also one of...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 12, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
One of the more elementary observations about economics is that a nation’s prosperity is determined in part by the quantity of quality of labor and capital. These “factors of production” are combined to generate national income. I frequently grouse that punitive tax...
