by Dan Mitchell | Dec 30, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
For those of us worried (with good reason!) about excessive regulation and red tape, 2015 was not a good year. As you can see from the headline of this story in the Washington Examiner, federal bureaucrats were very busy imposing new mandates and restrictions on the...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 29, 2015 | Blogs, Economics
When I get my daily email from the editorial page of the New York Times, I scroll through to see whether there’s anything on economic issues I should read. As a general rule, I skip over Paul Krugman’s writings because he’s both predictable and partisan. But every so...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 28, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
It’s time to criticize my least-favorite international bureaucracy. Regular readers probably know that I’m not talking about the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, or World Bank. Those institutions all deserve mockery, but I think the Paris-based...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 27, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Financial Privacy, Keynesian, Monetary Policy
I wrote yesterday that governments want to eliminate cash in order to make it easier to squeeze more money from taxpayers. But that’s not the only reason why politicians are interested in banning paper money and coins. They also are worried that paper money inhibits...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 26, 2015 | Blogs, Crime, Society, Taxation
Politicians hate cash. That may seem an odd assertion given that they love spending money (other people’s money, of course, as illustrated by this cartoon). But what I’m talking about is the fact that politicians get upset when there’s not 100 percent compliance with...
