by Dan Mitchell | Aug 23, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
This video from Dan Hannan crams 10,000 years of human history into 5 minutes. We learn about the “stationary bandit” of government and find out how our ancestors endured pervasive oppression and misery. But there’s a happy ending to the story. It’s called capitalism....
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 21, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
When I wrote yesterday that Trump’s overall rating on economic policy was “bad,” a few people wrote to complain. I did acknowledge in the column that it may be too soon to give the current president a grade, but it’s not looking good. He not only has a bad record on...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 20, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
The best feature of libertarians is that we are very principled and look at everything through the lens of the non-aggression principle. By contrast, the worst feature of politics, as explained by the Ninth Theorem of Government, is that it encourages people look at...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 19, 2020 | Blogs, Education
Way before we had a pandemic, I wasn’t a fan of the government school monopoly. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, never have so many taxpayers paid so much money into a system that produced such mediocre results for so many people. Now that we have a pandemic, the...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 18, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
Politicians and interest groups periodically fan the flames of temporary panic to push for misguided policy. We’ve already seen three big examples this century. The so-called PATRIOT Act was enacted in the feverish aftermath of 9-11, but many of its provisions simply...
