by Dan Mitchell | May 23, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
Jacobin is an explicitly socialist publication that fortunately has very little influence outside of the Crazy Bernie crowd. As far as I can recall, I’ve only cited its work four times. In 2019, I gave it backhanded praise for admitting that the...
by Dan Mitchell | May 22, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
I am a strong supporter of free trade, but I’m not an absolutist. I have no philosophical objection to restrictions that limit the sale of military goods and technology to potentially hostile nations. I’m even somewhat open to the notion that China’s...
by Dan Mitchell | May 20, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
A big problem for Joe Biden, as I’ve repeatedly noted, is that families are on an economic treadmill. Simply stated, inflation has been climbing as fast (or sometimes faster) than wages. That’s not a recipe to make a politician popular. Now...
by Dan Mitchell | May 19, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Financial Privacy, Regulations
I’ve repeatedly complained about the absurdity of anti-money laundering laws and regulations. As a libertarian, I don’t like that the government forces banks to spy on customers. As an economist, I don’t like that these laws don’t come...
by Dan Mitchell | May 18, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
Like Thomas Piketty, Gabriel Zucman is a French economist who promotes economically destructive class-warfare tax policy. He’s also infamous for dodgy data manipulation, as Phil Magness explains in this Reason discussion. The interview lasts for 64...
