by Dan Mitchell | Aug 17, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Last July, I wrote about how excessive spending was causing economic instability in Bolivia. One month later, I looked at overall public policy and explained that a bloated budget was just one of many problems. Simply stated, Bolivia suffers from...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 30, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Yesterday’s column mocked the the socialist mayoral candidate who won the Democratic primary in New York City. As I noted, Zohran Mamdani is an AOC-style hard-core leftist who wants to travel in the wrong direction as far and as fast as Javier...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 29, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
We’re approaching the mid-point of the year and I’ve already shared three candidates for counter-tweet of the year. Slapping down a leftist who wanted people to think capitalism is correlated with poverty. Slapping down a leftist who wanted people to think China...
by Dan Mitchell | May 24, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Socialism
I’m baffled that anybody who is both knowledgeable and well-meaning can choose some strain of collectivism (socialism, fascism, communism, etc) over capitalism. It should be a slam dunk for free enterprise, assuming the goal is...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 24, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
Building on my four-part series (here, here, here, and here) explaining the case against socialism and my five-part series (here, here, here, here, and here) on socialism in the modern world, today’s column will look at the economic...
