by Dan Mitchell | Jan 16, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
I wrote a four-part series last year about coronavirus and big government (here, here, here, and here), so it goes without saying that the first two lines of this tweet deserve some sort of accuracy award for hitting the nail on the head. But the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 15, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Early last decade, when writing about Spain’s fiscal crisis, I pointed out that the country got in trouble for the same reason Greece got in trouble. Simply stated, government spending grew faster than the private economy. And when nations...
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...
