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I wrote last December to share the results of a study Robert O’Quinn and I wrote for Canada’s Fraser Institute on pension systems in OECD nations. Our main goal was to show that personal retirement accounts are now surprisingly common, even in supposedly socialist Europe. Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Greece, Switzerland, Iceland, Latvia, and the Netherlands all have successful systems based wholly…

I recently wrote about the five potential ways of dealing with Social Security’s simmering crisis and noted that most supposed solutions moved us in the wrong direction on the spectrum. And I wrote less than two months ago about the program’s shaky finances. So I was interested to see a column in the New York Times by Mark Miller about “six oft-repeated myths about Social…

Over the past 11 months, ever since I introduced my 20th Theorem of Government, I’ve reviewed fiscal data for five countries (China, Greece, France, Brazil, Colombia) and two states (Maryland, Washington). Of those seven examples, only Greece was moving in the right direction, albeit only over the past six years. Today, we’re going to look at Canada. And I’ll eliminate all…

Last month, I shared this minute-long video to celebrate Javier Milei’s accomplishments but also to explain that more reforms are needed to unwind the 80-year disaster of Peronism. I won’t rehash Milei’s accomplishments in this column, other than to direct people to my 10-part series (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here). And for my left-leaning friends, I especially want them to notice what has…

As explained in this video from 15 years ago, the case for school choice is based on the fact that government monopolies don’t do a good job. There are several reasons for the inadequate performance of government schools, most notably the way that they are operated for the benefit of teacher unions and education bureaucrats rather than students. The net…