by Dan Mitchell | Feb 2, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
Is the United States becoming more libertarian? In terms of social tolerance, there are reasons for optimism. The legal harassment of drug users is declining.Legal harassment of gay people has virtually disappeared. But when looking at economic issues,...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
Every few years (2012, 2015, 2019), I warn that easy-money policies by the Federal Reserve are misguided. But not just because such policies eventually can lead to price inflation, which now has become a problem in the United States. Bad monetary policy also...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 31, 2022 | Blogs, Society
I recently wrote about academic bias. Today, let’s analyze whether there is a similar problem with journalists. And we’ll start with this video from Prager U. Just as with the column on academic bias, we’ll start by looking at evidence about whether members...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 30, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I only share long videos when they satisfy key criteria, such as being very informative and very educational. This video from Arthur Brooks is both. What I like most is that he does a very good job of showing that concern for the disadvantaged is the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 29, 2022 | Blogs, Education
If Winston Churchill was commenting on America’s government schools instead of the Royal Air Force, he would have said, “never have so many paid so much to achieve so little.” Which is one of the messages in this new video from Reason. I won’t keep...
