by Dan Mitchell | Jul 29, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
My view of the U.S. economic policy often depends on whether I’m writing about absolute levels of laissez-faire or relative levels of laissez-faire. If my column is about the former, I generally complain about excessive spending, punitive taxation, senseless red...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 28, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Back in 2011, CF&P released this video citing four nations – Canada, Ireland, Slovakia, and New Zealand – that achieved very good results with multi-year periods of genuine spending restraint. Today, let’s focus on what’s been happening with government spending in...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 27, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Way back in January of 2017, I predicted for a French TV audience that Donald Trump would be a big spender like George Bush instead of a small-government conservative like Ronald Reagan. Sadly, I was right. I crunched the numbers earlier this year and showed that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 26, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
When I write about socialism, I often point out that there’s a difference between how economists define it (government ownership, central planning, and price controls) and how normal people define it (lots of taxes, redistribution, and intervention). These definitions...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 25, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I recently speculated whether Seattle should be considered the worst-governed city in the country. Though there’s lots of competition for that honor from places like San Francisco, Detroit, New York City, and Chicago. And John Stossel makes a compelling case for...
