by Dan Mitchell | Nov 24, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
I normally share this video from Reason every Thanksgiving. But this year I’m going to recycle instead a video from John Stossel. The moral of the story is that societies based on collectivism do not succeed. People don’t work...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 25, 2021 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Over the years, I’ve shared three videos making the same point about how the first European settlers in America nearly starved because of socialism. Let’s recycle one of those videos today. To be sure, starving because of socialism didn’t...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 2, 2021 | Blogs, Health Care
Looking at the dismal performance of the FDA, CDC, and WHO, the obvious takeaway from the pandemic is that big government doesn’t work very well. Indeed, that was the point of a five-part series (see here, here, here, here,...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 13, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
During the Obama years, I frequently criticized the Administration’s bad policy choices. On a wide range of issues. But I also expressed disappointment when President Obama arbitrarily and unilaterally decided to override or overlook laws that were inconvenient to his...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Sep 13, 2020 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Inside Sources on September 10, 2020. Hugo Chavez’s socialist revolution, continuing today under Nicolás Maduro, brought untold misery to the people of Venezuela, but it also harmed non-Venezuelan companies and their shareholders. To this day,...
