by Dan Mitchell | Jul 7, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I certainly don’t intend to do this for everyone who has made it to the White House, but I have produced big-picture economic assessments of several presidents. Herbert Hoover Franklin Roosevelt Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan George H.W. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Bush...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 6, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
Having written more than 5000 columns over the past ten-plus years, I’ve learned that policy analysis doesn’t “go viral.” But I got a small taste of what that would be like when I shared an image in 2016 showing that the right kind of class warfare pits productive...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 5, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I don’t know whether I’ll live 3 more years or 30 more years. But I’m increasingly convinced that my “Never-Answered Question” will still be unanswered when I kick the bucket. One of the reasons for my confidence is that folks on the left have remarkably shoddy...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 4, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Exactly nine years ago, I crafted a “Declaration of Dependence” for my left-leaning friends. I thought it was reasonably clever, at least for something produced by a policy wonk. But I’ll never reach the standards of the nation’s top satire site, Babylon Bee, which...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 3, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Back in 2014, I wrote about “The Unsavory History of Gun Control” to document how many of the first gun control laws in the United States were used as a tool to oppress blacks. Today, let’s take a closer look at this issue. And since we have a lot of material, we’ll...
