by Dan Mitchell | Nov 11, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Now that Donald Trump has been elected, one of my main goals will be to convince him and his team that it would be wrong to leave government spending on autopilot (and it would be even worse to spend more money and increase the burden of government!). Since Trump...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 10, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
A couple of days ago, I wrote about Clemens Schneider’s hypothesis, presented at the European Students for Liberty regional conference in Maastricht, that 1356 was a very important year in European history because of two events that promoted decentralization and...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 9, 2016 | Blogs, Economics
Wow. I don’t know what else to say. Almost all the experts said Trump couldn’t win the GOP nomination. Then the expert consensus was that Trump had virtually no chance of winning the White House. Now, for better or worse, he’s going to be America’s next President....
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 8, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I’m generally a fan of Australia. I wrote my dissertation on the country’s private Social Security system, and I’m always telling policy makers we should copy their approach. The Aussies also abolished death taxes, which was a very admirable choice. I even wrote that...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 6, 2016 | Blogs, Europe
Back in 2012, I wrote a detailed article explaining that Europe became rich in part because Europe didn’t exist. The geographic landmass of Europe existed, of course, but the continent was characterized by massive political fragmentation. And this absence of...
