by Dan Mitchell | Jul 19, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Welfare and Entitlements
In Part I of this series, we learned from a report in the Wall Street Journal that the combined economies of the European Union have grown by only 6 percent over the past 15 years compared to 82 percent growth in the United States. That is stunning evidence...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 18, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
At the risk of being repetitive, I’ve been arguing (and arguing, and arguing) that the United States should not turn its medium-sized welfare state into a European-style, large-sized welfare state. Simply stated, that’s a route...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 27, 2023 | Blogs, Europe
Earlier this month, I mocked CNN for a nonsensical tweet about inflation. The network said there was no consensus about the cause of inflation even though it is glaringly obvious that the Federal Reserve’s bad monetary...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 22, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
The big fiscal debate in the United States is whether the United States should become a European-style welfare state, which is something that automatically will happen over the next few decades in the absence of genuine entitlement reform. Some...
by Dan Mitchell | May 6, 2023 | Blogs, Europe
Most Americans pay little or no attention to the European Union and its various bureaucratic and political arms in Brussels. But that’s unwise. What happens in Europe can have an impact on policy in the United States. For instance, I have been very...
