by Dan Mitchell | Oct 17, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
The newest edition of Economic Freedom of the World has been released by the Fraser Institute and I will continue my tradition (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, etc) of sharing the big-picture highlights. I normally start by...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 30, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
If you want to rigorously assess a nation’s economic outlook, investigate how it is scored based on the dozens of variables included in Economic Freedom of the World and the Index of Economic Freedom. And also look at whether its overall score is...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
Looking at measures of relative global prosperity, Chinese people are rich in Singapore. They are rich in Hong Kong. And they are rich in Taiwan. Americans of Chinese descent also are rich. So why is China not also rich? The answer is bad...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 20, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Let’s look today at two of the worst public policy ideas, proposals that are so economically illiterate that they get support only from very dogmatic leftists. We’ll start with the deduction for state and local taxes. Since I’m a fan of the flat tax, I don’t...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Europe, Free Market
It’s an annual tradition (2023, 2022, 2021…all the way back to 2010) to write about the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom. Since most people care about relative rankings, I’ll start with a look at the 25 nations that have the most...
