by Dan Mitchell | Jun 13, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
For those who read these columns on my website, you presumably have noticed that I have a rotating banner at the top of the page. One of the options is a quote from Milton Friedman about the blundering inefficiency of Washington. Though I believe in fairness. I...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 25, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
I’m in the United Kingdom for the Free Market Road Show and had planned on writing today about the awful economic policies of Boris Johnson, the supposedly Conservative Prime Minister. Yes, he produced an acceptable Brexit, but otherwise...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 24, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Socialism
For most of human history, we’ve had primitive and impoverished societies based on feudalism and tribalism. The good news is that capitalism began to emerge a couple of hundred years. The parts of the world that adopted free enterprise...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 21, 2021 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Now that a socialist has been elected (with open support from the Communist Party), what comes next for Chile? Lots of bad policy, for sure, but Axel Kaiser warns that the left also wants to replace the country’s pro-liberty constitution. Axel, who is...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 20, 2021 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
I warned a few days ago that Gabirel Boric would be bad news if he won Chile’s presidential election. Well, he won, and now we’re going to find out whether he will repeal the policies that made the country successful. He definitely seems to be...
