by Dan Mitchell | Jul 29, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
My view of the U.S. economic policy often depends on whether I’m writing about absolute levels of laissez-faire or relative levels of laissez-faire. If my column is about the former, I generally complain about excessive spending, punitive taxation, senseless red...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 19, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
When writing yesterday’s column about new competitiveness rankings from the IMD business school in Switzerland, I noticed that I have not yet written about this year’s edition of the Index of Economic Freedom. Time to rectify that oversight. We’ll start with a look at...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 8, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
Last week, I participated in a webinar with IES Europe. The program covered a wide range of issues, including tax competition, Social Security reform, and the recipe for national prosperity. Here’s what I said on the topic of federalism. To add some hard data to the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
As part of my collection of honest leftists, I have a bunch of columns highlighting how some advocates of big government (including, to their credit, Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang) don’t hide from reality. I’m unalterably opposed to their policies, but at least they...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 7, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
My favorite publication from the Canada-based Fraser Institute is Economic Freedom of the World, which ranks nations based on economic liberty. I religiously write about each year’s report (starting back in 2011), and I also cite the data dozens of time each year when...
