by Dan Mitchell | May 30, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I feel sorry for the Venezuelan people, but I’m perversely glad that the country is collapsing. That’s because it’s nice to have proof that Margaret Thatcher was right when she famously warned that the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other...
by Dan Mitchell | May 27, 2016 | Blogs, Energy
Whether they call it global warming or climate change, activists on the left are acting as if the issue is just an excuse to extort money and expand the power of government. In Part I, I wrote about kleptocrats exploiting the issue to shake down western governments...
by Dan Mitchell | May 26, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Venezuela is falling apart. Decades of bad policy have produced economic stagnation and misery. On the other side of South America, Chile has enjoyed comparatively strong growth since reforms began in the 1980s. Can we learn lessons by comparing these two nations?...
by Dan Mitchell | May 23, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
Having become interested in public policy because of Ronald Reagan’s message of limited government and individual liberty, I’m understandably depressed by the 2016 election. But we can at least learn something from the process. Robert Kagan of the Brookings...
by Dan Mitchell | May 8, 2016 | Blogs, Tax Havens, Taxation
I wrote last month about Secretary of State John Kerry being a giant hypocrite because he’s been a critic of so-called tax havens, yet he and his family benefits immensely from investments in various low-tax jurisdictions. But perhaps that’s something that Obama...
