by Dan Mitchell | May 19, 2023 | Blogs
When I want to know the nations with the best and worst policies, I peruse Economic Freedom of the World or the Index of Economic Freedom. But what if you want to know the countries with the best and worst consequences? In that case, the best option...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 28, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
I periodically use a “most depressing” theme when writing about charts or tweets with grim data. I’ve done that with regional data and also looked at depressing data from specific countries. Today, we’re going to look at some “most depressing”...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 21, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
When writing about employment and jobs, I often try to remind people about a handful of important observations. A nation’s economic output is determined in part by the number of people gainfully employed.The share of working-age people with...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
Over the past few months, I’ve written a 7-part series on Bidenomics, reviewing the president’s record on issues such as subsidies, inflation, protectionism, household income, fiscal policy, red tape, and employment. Regarding the last item, a big problem is...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 28, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Featured
I’ve long argued that it’s generally better to focus on employment rather than unemployment when assessing the health of the job market, and I had a chance to pontificate on that topic for Labor Relations Radio. Sadly, labor force participation numbers weren’t...
