by Dan Mitchell | Dec 1, 2023 | Blogs, Economics
It’s very hard to give Joe Biden a good grade for economic policy after examining issues such as subsidies, inflation, protectionism, household income, fiscal policy, red tape, employment, and poverty. So I was surprised last...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2023 | Blogs, States
I’ve written lots of columns comparing Texas and California (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here), and also several columns comparing Florida and New York (see here, here, here, here,...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 29, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
People with libertarian sympathies worry about “slippery slopes.” To elaborate, if you give government a little bit of power, we fear it will just be a matter of time before politicians and bureaucrats figure out how to expand and abuse that...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 28, 2023 | Blogs, Education
Of all the useless and counterproductive bureaucracies in Washington, the Department of Education may be at the top of the list. It certainly hasn’t produced good results, at least if we care about student performance. Though it does keep...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 27, 2023 | Blogs, Monetary Policy, Taxation
The British economy recently has been hammered by rising prices for the same reason that the American economy and the Eurozone economies were hurt by inflation. Simply stated, central bankers engaged in reckless monetary policy. And the...
