by Dan Mitchell | Dec 28, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
In this interview on Fox Business, I repeated my oft-stated concern that the Federal Reserve’s easy-money policy of artificially low interest rates (avidly supported by Trump) may have created the conditions for a boom-bust cycle. For today’s column, though, I want to...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 27, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
In order to protect against “Goldfish Government,” it’s very important to make sure that the powers of government are constrained by national borders. This is the reason why I’m a passionate defender of tax competition and fiscal sovereignty (even if it means being...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 26, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Yesterday, most of us celebrated Christmas. Today, all of us should celebrate the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which officially happened on this date in 1991 (aided and abetted by a Texas grocery store). A 2016 FEE column by Richard Ebeling documents...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 25, 2019 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Merry Christmas, even for my left-leaning friends and politically correct friends. The good news is that – contrary to reports – Santa Claus did not get arrested last night. And that’s good news because he does many things each year that could land him in prison. In a...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 24, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
I wrote yesterday that the Trump tax plan is yielding significant benefits, but one of my caveats at the end of the column warned that Trump’s weak record on spending undermines the long-run sustainability of lower tax rates. The latest example of Trump’s profligacy...
