by Dan Mitchell | Sep 26, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
A very persuasive argument against Biden’s fiscal agenda is that it makes no sense to copy the fiscal policies of European welfare states. Indeed, I routinely share this column from January, which looks at three different measures of comparative...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 1, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
China is not going to surpass the United States as the world’s dominant economy. As I first wrote back in 2010, China is a paper tiger. Yes, there was some pro-market reform last century, which helped reduce mass poverty, but China only took...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 4, 2021 | Blogs, Society
Since this is America’s Independence Day, I’m going to continue my tradition (see 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020) of authoring a July 4-themed column. What will make this year...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 8, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I periodically write about the importance of long-run growth and about the importance of convergence (whether poorer countries are catching up with richer countries, as suggested by theory). This is because such data, especially over decades,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
As illustrated by my recent three-part series (here, here, and here), I care about helping the poor rather then hurting the rich. More broadly, I want a bigger economic pie so that everyone can have a larger slice. And I don’t particularly care if some people get...
