by Dan Mitchell | Jul 2, 2023 | Blogs, Economics
In 2022, I did a seven-part series about Bidenomics, focusing on the president’s track record on subsidies, inflation, protectionism, household income, fiscal policy, red tape, and labor-force participation. Let’s take an...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 1, 2023 | Blogs
I created the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame to give recognition to government employees who confirm our worst suspicions about being lazy and overpaid. Or worse. Getting selected is not easy. For instance, the bureaucrats from the New Orleans...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 30, 2023 | Blogs
My biggest complaint about bureaucrats is that many of them work at departments and agencies that should be eliminated. But I also don’t like that they get overpaid compared to workers in the productive sector of the economy. To make matters...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 29, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
The Congressional Budget Office has released its new Long-Term Budget Outlook and I will continue a now-annual tradition (see 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022) of sharing some very bad news about America’s fiscal future. Here’s the most...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 28, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
As Frederic Bastiat sagely observed nearly 200 years ago, a good economist considers the indirect or secondary effects of any action. For instance, a politician might claim we can double tax revenue by doubling tax rates, but a sensible...
