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 | Sep 16, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
Earlier this year, I put together three sentences that summarize the post-1949 economic history of China. Crippling communist failure and suffering under Mao.Partial reform during the “Washington Consensus”...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 6, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
Since I’ve been warning for more than a decade about weaknesses in China’s economy, I’m not surprised by the surge in stories about that nation’s grim economic outlook. The problem is statism. To be more specific, China suffers from...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 14, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
When I visited Argentina last November to give some speeches, I expressed a lot of pessimism and rhetorically asked whether the country could be rescued. In a column earlier this month, I followed up with two reasons for why Argentina is a basket...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 26, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
The federal government screws up some big things (Social Security, health care, higher education, etc). This video shows it also screws up on targeted issues. The clear message is that the federal government has very bad policies that are hurting Native...
