by Dan Mitchell | May 24, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
A financial columnist named Rex Nutting recently triggered a firestorm of controversy by claiming that Barack Obama is not a big spender. Here’s the chart he prepared, which certainly seems to indicate that Obama is a fiscal conservative. Not only that, it shows that...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 24, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
What is the best way improve economic performance and boost living standards? If you listen to politicians, they would like us to think that adopting Policy A or repealing Policy B is a magic elixir. And if that means adopting a flat tax or repealing Obamacare, I’ll...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2012 | Blogs, Free Market
The 2012 Index of Economic Freedom has just been released. This is my favorite publication from the Heritage Foundation, and second only to the Economic Freedom of the World Index as a measure of global public policy. The news scores for 2012 are not pretty. We have...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 9, 2011 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition
I’ve previously blogged about the declining status of the United States, as measured by objective sources such as the Economic Freedom of the World Index and the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report. My attitude about these developments is to...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 20, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
The 2011 edition of Economic Freedom of the World, published by Canada’s Fraser Institute (with help from groups like Cato), has been released. Covering data through 2009, the new report provides damning evidence of the negative impact of the Bush-Obama policies of...
