by Dan Mitchell | Jun 10, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
A major theme of my daily columns is that economic freedom is a universal recipe for faster growth and better economic performance. But the flip side is that statist policies inevitably lead to less prosperity. And these statements are true...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 9, 2025 | Blogs, Trade
In the final minute of this video on trade deficits, I explained that protectionism is a political loser for the Republican Party. But I didn’t delve deeply into the politics of protectionism. I merely noted that today’s Republican lawmakers were concerned. And for...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 8, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
I have a special page called Poverty Hucksters, which features people or institutions (such as the Obama Administration, Steven Greenhouse, and the United Nations) that have deliberately lied about poverty. No person has ever been featured more...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2025 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by the Washington Examiner on June 3, 2025. Although Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-backed mortgage giants with a taxpayer-funded safety net, helped crash the economy in 2008, the Biden administration in its final days quietly laid the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
I commonly use “everything you need to know” when sharing a story that summarizes the buffoonery of a government (either international, national, regional, or local). I even occasionally claim that a story (see here, here, and here)...
