by Dan Mitchell | Feb 10, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I would prefer not to write about President Trump’s new budget, largely because I know it’s not a serious proposal. Even before he was elected, I pointed out that Trump was a big-government Republican who had no intention of dealing with serious fiscal issues such as...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 8, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
There’s endless “spin” in over-politicized and self-serving Washington, with Democrats and Republicans both trying to convince people why any particular bit of economic data is either wonderful news or horrible news. Since I care about policy rather than politics, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 7, 2020 | Blogs, Free Market
Back in 2013, I talked to the BBC about Pope Francis and his bizarre hostility to free enterprise. Sadly, it doesn’t appear that the Pope took my advice (though I think it’s amusing that at least someone in the Vatican is paying attention). There’s a wealth of...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 6, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Politicians such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez say that their goal of “democratic socialism” is very different from the socialism of Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela, as well as the socialism of the former Soviet Union. And they doubtlessly would get...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 5, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
In an amazing display of incompetence, we still don’t know whether Bernie Sanders or Pete Buttigieg won the Iowa caucus. This has created some opportunities for satire, with people asking how a political party that can’t properly count 200,000 votes somehow can...
