by Dan Mitchell | Aug 11, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
When I share examples of socialism humor and communism humor, I sometimes wonder whether we should laugh about ideologies that have imposed so much death and misery on the world. For instance, I’ve shared some jokes about...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 3, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
The economic disintegration of Venezuela is a powerful example how socialism fails. Even in a nation with massive oil wealth. This video from Reason tells the tragic story. I think long-run data is especially valuable when...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 8, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Every so often, I’ll grouse about media sloppiness/media bias, most often from the Washington Post or New York Times, but also from other outlets (Reuters, Time, ABC, the Associated Press, etc). Let’s add to the collection today by perusing an interesting – but...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Sep 13, 2020 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Inside Sources on September 10, 2020. Hugo Chavez’s socialist revolution, continuing today under Nicolás Maduro, brought untold misery to the people of Venezuela, but it also harmed non-Venezuelan companies and their shareholders. To this day,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 1, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Trade
Yesterday’s column was my annual end-of-year round-up of the best and worst developments of the concluding year. Today I’ll be forward looking and give you my hopes and fears for the new year, which is a newer tradition that began in 2017 (and continued...
