by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Last year, I wrote “good riddance” columns for Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau. Today, let’s bid a not-so-fond farewell to Viktor Orbán, the long-serving (2010-2026) but just-rejected Prime Minister of Hungary. My main gripe with Orbán is that he moved his...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 4, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Socialism
There’s some amateur foreign-policy analysis in this video clip, but notice what I say about trends in Chinese economic policy. Today’s column is going to show that China’s economic improvement – indeed, its entire post World War II history – has a very simple...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2026 | Blogs, Taxation
I periodically mock wealthy leftists who urge class-warfare taxes, and I’ve shared two amusing videos (here and here) exposing the hypocrisy of these people. They are hypocrites because the Treasury Department in...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 25, 2026 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism, Welfare and Entitlements
I’ve written a four-part series (here, here, here, and here) explaining why socialism is a bad idea, but let’s use today’s column to define this evil ideology. As I mentioned in the video, genuine socialism is based on three very specific concepts....
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 16, 2026 | Blogs, Europe, Free Market
The good news is that Europe has a lot of economic freedom by world standards. Especially Western Europe. The bad news is that economic freedom has been declining in Western Europe. To make matters worse, Europe has a big demographic problem,...
