by Dan Mitchell | May 26, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Last year, I shared some academic research showing that less military spending led to better economic performance. This should not come as a surprise. Every type of government spending necessarily causes harm by diverting resources from the...
by Dan Mitchell | May 25, 2023 | Blogs, Education
The case for school choice is simple and straightforward. Government schools receive record amounts of taxpayer money and do a relatively poor job of educating children. There are many reasons for the failure of government schools,...
by Dan Mitchell | May 24, 2023 | Blogs, Economics
I have written very favorably about Hong Kong and I have also sung the praises of Singapore. But if you want to know which jurisdiction has a brighter future, it certainly seems like Singapore will be the long-run winner. The above video is a segment from my...
by Dan Mitchell | May 23, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
There are three troubling things about the politics of poverty. First, I frequently grouse and complain that some folks on the left don’t actually care about helping poor people. Instead, as explained in my Eighth Theorem of...
by Dan Mitchell | May 22, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Regarding the debt ceiling, the hysterical headlines about default and an economic apocalypse are silly because the Treasury Department surely will “prioritize” if Republicans and Democrats don’t reach an agreement. The above clip was taken from an interview last week...
