by Dan Mitchell | Jan 6, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
I wrote two months ago that President Ronald Reagan did a good job with regards to government spending. I echoed that sentiment in this recent interview. I’ve tried to show Reagan’s success with various charts (see here, here, here, and here)....
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 5, 2024 | Blogs, Education
The case for school choice is very straightforward and very persuasive. Better educational outcomes.More educational freedom.Lower costs for taxpayers.Reining in teacher unions.Better government schools. All of these factors help to explain why school choice...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 4, 2024 | Blogs, Free Market
When I first started writing about the Human Freedom Index, Hong Kong was the best jurisdiction in the world. Then New Zealand regularly appeared in the top spot. In recent years, though, Switzerland has been in first...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 3, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Privacy
Last year, I shared grim details from a New York Times story on money laundering by Tara Siegel Bernard and Ron Lieber. The reporters provided new ammunition for my long-held view that anti-money-laundering laws and regulations are fundamentally misguided....
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 2, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Education
I have a multi-part series on why people shouldn’t trust economists (see here, here, here, here, and here). I even wrote a tongue-in-cheek column asking whether economists were “Useless, Despicable, and Loathsome People.” That being...
