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NEXT EVENT: June 11, 2026

Dan Mitchell is President of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, a pro-market public policy organization he founded in 2000. Having also worked at the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute, he has decades of experience authoring papers, writing editorials, working with the public policy community, and presenting the free-market viewpoint to newspaper, television, and radio media. The co-author of The Greatest Ponzi Scheme on Earth and Global Tax Revolution, Dan has spoken to a wide variety of groups in more than 40 states and more than 70 foreign countries. He is a Visiting Professor at Universidad de la Libertad in Mexico City and also served on the editorial board of the Cayman Financial Review. Dan holds a Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University.

Poorly designed entitlement programs and demographic change mean that the burden of government spending will continue growing faster than the private economy, which means more debt and less prosperity. Excessive spending also means there will be ever-present dangers of higher taxes and/or inflation.  The good news is that there are solutions. The bad news is that the current crop of politicians in Washington have no interest in solving the problem. Indeed, they seem determined to accelerate America’s future economic and fiscal crisis.