by Dan Mitchell | Dec 1, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Crime, Society
When I write about gun control, I generally make two arguments. First, criminals are lawbreakers, so the notion that they will be disarmed because of gun control is a fantasy. Crooks and thugs who really want a gun will always have access to black-market weapons....
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2016 | Blogs, Crime, Financial Privacy, Society, Tax Havens, Taxation
The War against Cash is a battle that shouldn’t even exist. But politicians don’t like cash because it’s hard to control something that people can freely trade back and forth. So folks on the left are arguing that governments should ban or restrict paper money. In...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 29, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
At the risk of understatement, I’m not a fan of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Perhaps reflecting the mindset of the European governments that dominate its membership, the Paris-based international bureaucracy has morphed into a cheerleader...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 28, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Supply Side
There’s a lot of speculation in Washington about what a Trump Administration will do on government spending. Based on his rhetoric it’s hard to know whether he’ll be a big-spending populist or a hard-nosed businessman. But what if that fight is pointless? Back in...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 27, 2016 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Do politicians celebrate the life of Osama bin Laden? Or fondly remember the supposed contributions of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Workers Party? Or wax poetic about the memory of Pol Pot? Maybe in some backwater of the third world, but no politician from...
