by Dan Mitchell | Jan 14, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
Early last decade, a former Prime Minister of Iceland was brought before a special tribunal to determine whether he was legally responsible for his nation’s 2008 economic downturn. As you might imagine, I had mixed emotions about that story. On one...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 13, 2021 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Since I’m a policy wonk, I rarely play the role of political pundit other than biennial election predictions. But I’m getting a lot of requests to comment about Trump, especially in light of the recent protest/riot/insurrection and the ongoing political fallout...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
As illustrated by my recent three-part series (here, here, and here), I care about helping the poor rather then hurting the rich. More broadly, I want a bigger economic pie so that everyone can have a larger slice. And I don’t particularly care if some people get...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 11, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
I have repeatedly warned that nations get in fiscal trouble when government is too big and growing too fast. In such countries, it’s very common to find high levels of government debt as one of the symptoms of excessive spending. This can create the conditions for a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 10, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve already written a column about the best and worst developments of 2020. But what if we wanted to identify a lesson that society should have learned from the past 12 months? Well, there’s an obvious answer, especially for those of us with libertarian sympathies....
