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...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 8, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, States
Late last year, I praised lawmakers in Georgia and North Carolina for being fiscally responsible. The burden of government spending in those states was constrained between 2020 and 2022, even though that was a period when handouts from Washington were...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 7, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
I’ve been warning for many years (including less than two weeks ago) that it would be a big mistake to have a “grand bargain” budget deal that includes tax increases. This is not because of math. It is possible, of course, to have an acceptable...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 6, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
I’m opposed to globalism (because global governance means bigger government), but I’m in favor of globalization (because free trade makes us richer). So I largely approve of this video from the Economist. This video is basically an...
