by Dan Mitchell | Nov 21, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
Some policies will improve with Biden in the White House, most notably trade, but also government spending (not because Biden is good, but rather because Republicans will go back to pretending to be fiscally conservative). But some policies will move in the wrong...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 20, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Previous editions of the case for capitalism (Part I, Part II, and Part III) have focused on big-picture analyses of markets vs statism. Today, let’s look at a specific product that free enterprise has delivered. Younger readers may take smartphones for granted, but I...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 19, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
More than ten years ago, I narrated this video in hopes of convincing politicians and bureaucrats that anti-money laundering laws (and associated regulations) were a costly and intrusive failure. Sadly, my efforts to bring sanity to so-called AML policy (sometimes...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 18, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
Most Republicans and Democrats have a self-interested view of divided government. They obviously prefer if their party controls everything. After all, that’s how Republicans got tax reform in 2017 and it’s how Democrats got Obamacare in 2010. But they also like...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 17, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
Japan is an interesting country to examine if you want insights about public policy. We can study the impact of population aging on fiscal outcomes. We can learn about the utter failure of Keynesian economics. We can understand why it’s a very bad idea to impose a...
