by Dan Mitchell | May 9, 2024 | Blogs, Free Market
I wrote in 2014, 2017, and 2020 about how free markets and limited government have produced amazing results in Singapore. Let’s revisit that country and we’ll start with this video from the Fraser Institute. Since the video explains that Singapore...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 20, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Since I’m a policy wonk with a keen interest in international and comparative economics, I write every year (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, etc) about the annual release of Economic Freedom of the World, published by the Fraser Institute in...
by Dan Mitchell | May 24, 2023 | Blogs, Economics
I have written very favorably about Hong Kong and I have also sung the praises of Singapore. But if you want to know which jurisdiction has a brighter future, it certainly seems like Singapore will be the long-run winner. The above video is a segment from my...
by Dan Mitchell | May 12, 2023 | Blogs, Trade
Free trade is good and protectionism is bad. Assuming one agrees with those common-sense observations, the Tholos Foundation’s just-released Trade Barriers Index is a great source of data about which countries are pro-trade and...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 17, 2022 | Blogs, Europe
I was a big fan of Brexit (the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union), but I’m very disappointed about the subsequent failure to create “Singapore-on-Thames.” The above clip was my “under-reported story of the week,” as part of the most-recent...
