by Dan Mitchell | Sep 25, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
Last November, I criticized Nancy Pelosi’s scheme to impose European-style price controls on pharmaceutical drugs in the United States. I wasn’t the only one who objected to Pelosi’s reckless idea. We have forty centuries of experience demonstrating that price...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2020 | Blogs, Crime, Society
I frequently cite Mark Perry in my columns (including what I wrote yesterday) because he has an uncommon ability to focus on what’s actually important when writing about economic issues. It turns out he also has that ability when it comes to social issues, as...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 23, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
I’ve shared many videos (here, here, here, here, here, and here) explaining how government has made America’s health system expensive and inefficient. I especially recommend my 2019 speech to the European Resource Bank. Now let’s add this video to our collection. One...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 22, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
The Congressional Budget Office released it’s 2020 Long-Term Budget Outlook yesterday. Almost everybody has focused on CBO’s projections for record levels of red ink. And it is worrisome that debt is heading to Greek/Japanese levels (especially if the folks who buy...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 21, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, States, Taxation
If you’re a curmudgeonly libertarian like me, you don’t like big government because it impinges on individual liberty. Most people, however, get irked with government for the practical reason that it costs so much and fails to provide decent services. California is...
