by Dan Mitchell | Oct 13, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Since I’m a big fan of spending caps in Switzerland and Colorado, I’m always on the lookout for research and analysis about fiscal rules. For instance, there are pro-spending-cap studies from left-leaning bureaucracies such as the...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 12, 2023 | Blogs, Education, States
Given what’s recently happened in North Carolina, Oklahoma, Indiana, Florida, Arkansas, Utah, and Iowa, I’ve been waiting with considerable anticipation for an update to the Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom Report...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 11, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Paul Krugman isn’t always wrong. A few years ago, for instance, he admitted the Laffer Curve is real. And he even once wrote something sensible about tax policy. But those are the exceptions. His usual routine is to pontificate in favor of bigger...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 10, 2023 | Blogs, Economics
I’ve written several times about the issue of the gender pay gap, mostly to point out that our friends on the left are wrong when they assert that there is pervasive and significant sex discrimination in wage levels. When debating this...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 9, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Immigration, Society
Back in early 2009, the Center for Freedom and Prosperity released this video to explain the universal recipe for growth and prosperity. The core message, if you want to skip the six-minute video, is that nations will become richer if they have a good mix of these...
