by Dan Mitchell | Oct 10, 2016 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’m a policy wonk rather than a political partisan or political prognosticator, so I generally don’t comment on elections. But since I’ve received several emails asking my opinion of the Trump debacle and this is the topic dominating the headlines, I will offer my two...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 9, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
One of the great flaws of Keynesian economics is that proponents assume policymakers are angels motivated solely by a desire to help people by boosting the economy when there’s a downturn. Needless to say, that’s an absurd assumption. To cite just one real-world...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 8, 2016 | Blogs, Taxation
One (hopefully endearing) trait of being a policy wonk is that I have a weakness for jurisdictional rankings. At least if they’re methodologically sound. This is why I was so happy a couple of weeks ago when I got to peruse and analyze the 2016 version of Economic...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 7, 2016 | Blogs, Economics
I’ve written many times about the gap between intentions and results in government. It’s very common to see politicians vote for laws that (at least in some cases) they think will help people, but they fail to recognize the indirect or second-order effects of...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 6, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
What are the main problems with government bureaucrats? Is it that they’re paid too much? Given that they get far more compensation than workers in the economy’s productive sector, that’s certainly true. Is it that there are too many of them? Well, we have lots...
