Another Sign of American Decline: USA Drops from 1st to 5th in Index of Financial Centers

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 9, 2011 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition

I’ve previously blogged about the declining status of the United States, as measured by objective sources such as the Economic Freedom of the World Index and the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report. My attitude about these developments is to...

Report from World Economic Forum Gives U.S. Poor Grades for Wasteful Spending and Burdensome Regulation

by Dan Mitchell | Aug 18, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Government Waste

The latest issue of the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report contains some rather damning information about government incompetence in the United States. America ranks only 68th in the “Wastefulness of Government Spending” category (page 373) and 49th...

The Transatlantic Government-Incompetence-and-Stupidity Contest: The U.S v. U.K.

by Dan Mitchell | Jul 23, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste

Last week, we compared a bone-headed display tpqof incompetence by the German government with a perverse form of harassment by a local government in the United States. We have another America-v-Europe contest, but the roles are reversed. This time, the buffoons in...

Which Nation Has Dumber Bureaucrats and More Political Correctness, the United States or United Kingdom?

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 18, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs

Somebody just sent me a story from the UK-based Daily Telegraph about two little boys who got in trouble for playing army at school. You may think I’m joking, but here’s a blurb from the report. Staff at Nathaniel Newton Infant School in Nuneaton, Warwickshire,...

Five reasons Why Switzerland Is Better than the United States (but Five Reasons Why I’ll Stay in America)

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 14, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Financial Privacy, Government Spending

Greetings from Montreux, Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Geneva. There aren’t many places where palm trees are framed by snow-capped mountains. Heck, even I managed to take a decent photo. But let’s shift back to the world of public policy. Every time I’m in...