by Dan Mitchell | Dec 18, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
According to the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of North America, the most economically free jurisdiction in North America used to be the Canadian province of Alberta. But Alberta then slipped and New Hampshire claimed the top position. And, according to the...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 17, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
Japan is an interesting country to examine if you want insights about public policy. We can study the impact of population aging on fiscal outcomes. We can learn about the utter failure of Keynesian economics. We can understand why it’s a very bad idea to impose a...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 14, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
The latest edition of Economic Freedom of the World has been released by the Fraser Institute. The good news is that the United States is in the top 10 (we dropped as low as #18 during Obama’s first term). The bad news is that Australia jumped in front of the United...
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...
