by Dan Mitchell | Sep 21, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
Russia’s government has been appropriately criticized for invading Ukraine, but let’s focus today on Putin’s economic mismanagement. I’m motivated by this tweet from a professor at the University of Chicago. He points out that Russians were richer than...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 31, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
The world is much freer today than when I was born, largely because the “Evil Empire” collapsed. The Soviet Union was awful. It killed at least 20 million of its own people (some say as many as 60 million). It enslaved and impoverished its own...
by Brian Garst | May 4, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Financial Privacy
In a recent op-ed, CF&P President Andrew Quinlan looked at some ways that politicians are responding to the invasion of Ukraine, just as they have crises in the past, to advance unrelated political agendas: [N]ew calls to restrict liberties began almost as soon as...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 3, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
Since I wrote yesterday about Ukraine’s terrible economic policy, fairness requires that I make the same points about Russia’s similarly dirigiste system. We’ll start with Russia’s scores from the latest edition of Economic Freedom of the World. Not...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 2, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Regarding Russia’s reprehensible attack on Ukraine, I’ve written three columns. Russian oligarchs don’t deserve much sympathy because they got their riches through cronyism rather than capitalism.Western nations should weaken Putin by...
