Tagged with "free markets"

Free Enterprise: The irresistible anti-poverty strategy

Where the world has shifted in favour of free enterprise, poverty has seen dramatic falls. The Left has always opposed free enterprise, so what does this tell you about their true priorities? The poor are just canon fodder for their big state ambitions, anyone?
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 4 September 2017
Workers of the world do best in free markets

If you want the best for workers, the evidence shows that unregulated markets make them better off, less likely to face discrimination, and happier overall. The Left opposes free markets because they can't control them, regardless of the benefits for those they claim to speak for
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 5 January 2017
EU scaremongering and the single market

The main aim of the Stay in campaign is to terrify UK voters into thinking if we leave the EU we, uniquely in the world, will be unable to sell into the EU single market. This is scaremongering, and it is utter nonsense
by Sir John Redwood MP - 3 November 2015
Papal economics: for richer or for poorer?

Ironically, the Pope's own country of origin -- Argentina, which used to be among the richest in the world -- impoverished itself due to the socialist nonsense that he himself advocates for the world
by Tim Hedges - 21 October 2015
Want real social justice? Support free markets

“Social justice” is a catch-all term for the left’s agenda. And that agenda means more power for government and less freedom for individuals. It also means much more poverty, and the left are absolutely fine with that. Getting the message yet?
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 5 June 2015
Obama's disastrous legacy, especially for blacks

Barack Obama's legacy to the outside world will be his disastrous foreign policy. But his domestic economic polices have failed ordinary Americans spectacularly, and black Americans more than anyone
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 17 April 2015
Basic, blooming economics: Don't you get it?

From the Chancellor to the journalists at the BBC, Sky, the Telegraph et al does anyone actually understand basic economics these days? Our societal leaders are serving us up with merde pie, says the irrepressible Godfrey Bloom
by Godfrey Bloom - 7 December 2014
Singapore: A remarkable free-market success story

Singapore's corporate tax rate is just 17 percent and the top tax rate for households is only 20 percent. In other words, there’s no Obama-Hollande class warfare against successful taxpayers. Lesson? Free markets create wealth; socialism creates poverty
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 29 November 2014
Great moments (or not) in government

Flushing your money down the toilet is a speciality of big government. But did you know how good they are at it? These three stories will put you in the picture
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 27 July 2014
The amazing hockey stick of economic progress

Check out the evidence on growth. Something to have in the back of your mind when some statist naively tells you the economy is a fixed pie and that successful entrepreneurs only become rich by making other people poor
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 28 June 2014
AstraZeneca: UK establishment to rob pensioners?

There's a gang, comprising the Labour leadership and assorted other protectionists, which is placing the forces of the political market before Britain’s long-term national interest
by Andrew Gibson - 14 May 2014
A low tax fantasy world

How marvellous it would be to live in a free market economy with low taxes, free from government waste and the dirty deals done between the state and big business to the detriment of us all
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 16 April 2014
Touts are just the ticket

Ticket touts perform a fantastic service. They help everyone get what they want. Trust the dinosaurs of the Left to want to hammer working class initiative
by Andrew Gibson - 10 March 2014
UK living standards, and evidence on the 50p tax rate

It is taking time to get back to where real incomes were prior to the crash, but prudent, intelligent policies are getting us there. Oh, and as for Labour's 50p tax rate, we can sort that one out just by looking at the evidence
by Sir John Redwood MP - 26 January 2014
Why end of communism didn’t make capitalism popular

The Left has successfully blamed market economics for policy failings of their own. The longer it is unfashionable to be a laissez-faire capitalist, the more people will suffer
by Elliot Burns - 23 January 2014