by Dan Mitchell | Dec 4, 2023 | Blogs, Taxation
What’s the best way of helping poor countries achieve faster growth so they can converge with rich nations? Sensible people respond with a range of good answers. Removing trade barriers.Lowering corruption.Improved rule of...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 27, 2023 | Blogs, Monetary Policy, Taxation
The British economy recently has been hammered by rising prices for the same reason that the American economy and the Eurozone economies were hurt by inflation. Simply stated, central bankers engaged in reckless monetary policy. And the...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 21, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
Even though America’s fiscal policy is in bad shape and getting worse, I’m afraid that politicians who claim to want to make things better will wind up making things worse. For instance, when two former Senators (Rob Portman of Ohio and Kent Conrad of...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 14, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Supply Side, Taxation
In Part I of this series, I looked at Ronald Reagan’s reasonably successful track record on government spending (which could be characterized as fantastically successful when compared to other Republican presidents) and explained why we need...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 9, 2023 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
State-to-state migration is an underappreciated issue, for both economic and political reasons. And I’ve explained that taxes play a huge role. In Part I of this series, we looked at how people – and taxable income – are moving from high-tax...
