by Dan Mitchell | Aug 13, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
A few years ago, advocates of a “basic income” seemed to have a lot of momentum on their side. Nations were holding referendums, presidential candidates were embracing the concept, and even some libertarians were saying nice things about the idea. Being a curmudgeon...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 21, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
In Part VII of this series about Javier Milei’s libertarian policies in Argentina, I celebrated a 10-percentage point reduction in the nation’s poverty rate. That’s amazing progress in a short amount of time. As shown in this updated chart,...
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 | Dec 19, 2024 | Blogs
Argentina’s economy suffered a dramatic decline from 1946-2023 because of statist policy. The economy became such a disaster that voters shocked the world in late 2023 by choosing Javier Milei, a hard-core libertarian, to be their next...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 3, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
I frequently cite a column I wrote in 2017 about how 1980-2010 was a reasonably good era for China, thanks to a bit of economic liberalization. My leftist friends will say that can’t be true because inequality increased during those decades. I respond...
