by Dan Mitchell | Nov 9, 2025 | Blogs
After Friday’s column ranking American presidents, a reader emailed to ask about ranking foreign leaders. I responded by stating that Javier Milei is easily the best in the world. And it’s not even close. Beyond that, I didn’t have any...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 7, 2025 | Blogs
In 2020, I put together a ranking of recent presidents, mostly because I wanted to make the point that partisan labels don’t necessarily matter. Indeed, over the past 60-plus years, Republicans were some of the worst in terms of statist policy...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 25, 2025 | Blogs, Trade
Building on three videos I shared in 2018 (see here, here, and here), let’s look at another example of Ronald Reagan explaining the benefits of free trade. I’m sharing the above video because the government of Ontario in Canada recently ran an ad featuring excerpts of...
by Dan Mitchell | May 25, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
I admire Ronald Reagan because he walked the walk and talked the talk, which basically means he said the right things and did the right things. Here’s another example of his wisdom. If Reagan’s analysis sounds familiar, it may be because...
by Dan Mitchell | May 19, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Back in 2017, I created my Fourth Theorem of Government in hopes of convincing timid Republicans that it would be politically beneficial to reduce the burden of government. My example was Ronald Reagan, who did things that seemed politically unpopular, such...
