by Dan Mitchell | Jan 5, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
When I want to explain that excessive government shortens lifespans, I’m going to have a new and powerful argument thanks to the Trump Administration’s misguided efforts to restrict vaping. The issue is very simple. Some people want nicotine. If vaping products are...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 4, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Minimum Wage
As I discuss in this recent interview, a higher minimum wage is a terrible idea if we care about facts and evidence (and also want to help poor people). In the interview, I mentioned that minimum wage mandates aren’t good news for workers who lose their jobs. One of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 3, 2020 | Blogs, Taxation
I want more people to become rich. That’s why I support free markets. But a few already-rich people say such silly things that I wonder whether a big bank account somehow can lead to a loss of common sense. For background information on this issue, there’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 2, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
At the beginning of the Trump era, many of us (including me) warned that his statements on trade were nonsensical. And when Trump shifted from bad rhetoric to bad policy, Johan Norberg pointed out why trade wars are very misguided. As you might expect, Johan is...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 1, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Trade
Yesterday’s column was my annual end-of-year round-up of the best and worst developments of the concluding year. Today I’ll be forward looking and give you my hopes and fears for the new year, which is a newer tradition that began in 2017 (and continued...
