by Dan Mitchell | Feb 3, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
The economic disintegration of Venezuela is a powerful example how socialism fails. Even in a nation with massive oil wealth. This video from Reason tells the tragic story. I think long-run data is especially valuable when...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 30, 2021 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Back in 2018, I shared five images that accurately capture leftism, which is the Mussolini-ish notion of “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state” (one of the images was subsequently deleted, so you can...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Socialism
I’ve written a couple of times about a disturbingly large share of young people support statist economic policies. A good example can be seen in this polling data from the Pew Research Center (relevant data circled in red). Christopher Ingraham wrote about this survey...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 14, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
China is a success if you consider how economic freedom increased after Mao’s death and hundreds of millions of people were lifted out of unimaginable poverty. But I explain in this interview that China is also a failure because the reforms were too limited and the...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 7, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
Joe Biden has a very misguided economic agenda. I’m especially disturbed by his class-warfare tax agenda, which will be bad news for American workers and American competitiveness. The good news, as I wrote earlier this year, is that he probably isn’t serious about...
