by Dan Mitchell | Feb 15, 2026 | Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Let’s start today’s column with two simple and uncontroversial statements. Without real entitlement reform, the burden of government spending will grow dramatically over the next few decades. There are only three ways – taxes, borrowing, and money-printing – to...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 14, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
This 2019 video explains uses theory and evidence to argue in favor of free trade. Are my arguments still correct? Let’s update our analysis of trade by looking specifically at the impact of Trump’s second-term...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 12, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
At the end of last year, I celebrated two years of libertarian progress in Argentina. Now, thanks to strong results for President Milei’s libertarian party in the October mid-term elections, I’ll hopefully have a column at the end of this year to...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 11, 2026 | Blogs, Government Spending
Starting in 2010, and then most recently in 2024, I have repeatedly demonstrated that it is very simple to balance the budget. All that is necessary is some reasonable spending restraint, sort of like what happened during the Tea Party era in the early part of last...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 10, 2026 | Blogs, Taxation
At the end of December, I wrote about the pro-spending lobbies pushing to put an insanely foolish retroactive wealth tax on the ballot later this year. I followed up last month with a column about rich people prudently escaping the state. Today,...
