by Dan Mitchell | Dec 16, 2022 | Blogs, Trade
I narrated a video making the case for free trade back in 2019. This new video from Kite & Key builds on that effort. Indeed, it also incorporates many of the lessons that were in my video on the benefits of creative destruction. If you don’t have...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 15, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Health Care
One thing that became very apparent during the pandemic is that government schools are mostly run for the benefit of bureaucrats rather than students. Not that any of us should have been surprised. The same is true for other...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 14, 2022 | Blogs, Europe, Trade
For the first 50-plus years of my life, free trade was in the ascendancy. Policy makers had learned a big lesson from the Great Depression about how protectionism was economic poison, and various trade agreements after World War II helped...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 13, 2022 | Blogs, Taxation
It is economically foolish to have high tax rates, double taxation, and corrupt loopholes. The answer, as Steve Forbes explains in this video, is the flat tax. He makes excellent points, similar to the analysis I shared in my 2010 video....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 12, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
One of my frustrations in life is that my friends on the left seem more interested in good intentions rather than good results. With regards to overall public policy, I challenge them with my “never-answered question” and they are unable to respond. With regards to...
