by Dan Mitchell | Jun 14, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
When writing about Bernie Sanders back in 2016, I put together a flowchart to identify different strains of statism. In part, I wanted to show that genuine socialists, with their advocacy of government ownership, central planning, and price controls, aren’t really the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 10, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
How do we measure the cost of Venezuelan socialism? Is it people eating household pets? Is it people dying of malnourishment? Is it women selling their bodies? Actually, it’s all of the above. And there’s plenty of additional evidence. All of which shows that more...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jun 5, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Socialism
There’s a lot of talk of socialism these days. Unfortunately, it’s not limited to classrooms where children should learn about the many horrors suffered thanks to socialism’s numerous and consistent failures. And for those who don’t know their...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 2, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Since I’m a policy economist, I rarely comment on political matters. But I am worried that the Democratic Party is veering too far to the left. Bernie Sanders, an out-of-the-closet socialist is leading the way, followed closely by other leading Democrats with...
by Dan Mitchell | May 13, 2019 | Blogs, Europe
By refusing to implement a Clean Brexit and instead pursuing a Brexit-in-Name-Only, Prime Minister Theresa May has dramatically reduced support for the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom. The poll numbers are now so bad that it is conceivable to imagine that...
