by Dan Mitchell | Jul 28, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Featured, Welfare and Entitlements
Back in 2020, I created a simple visual to explain potential options for Social Security. My goal was to help readers understand that politicians have the ability to make the current system better, but they also could make it even worse. But I’m not...
by Brian Garst | Jun 8, 2025 | Featured, Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by DC Journal on June 3, 2025. When a handful of United Airlines employees banded in 1935 to get loans at fair rates amid the Great Depression, they could not have imagined the modest collective they were forming would grow into a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2025 | Featured, Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by the Washington Examiner on June 3, 2025. Although Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-backed mortgage giants with a taxpayer-funded safety net, helped crash the economy in 2008, the Biden administration in its final days quietly laid the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 5, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Featured, Government Spending
Elon Musk is in the news because of his opposition to Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” At the risk of sounding wishy-washy, I’m not sure if he is right or wrong. The good news is that the bill prevents a massive automatic tax increase starting on January 1 of 2026. The...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 4, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Featured, Health Care, Taxation
I wrote back in 2016 that the health care exclusion was the worst loophole in America’s monstrosity of a tax code. Today’s column will explain why that is still true and we’ll begin with this short explainer video from the folks at Kite &...
by Dan Mitchell | May 16, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Featured, Free Market
Let’s start today’s column with a refresher look at my video on creative destruction. I had two goals with this video. First, creative destruction can be painful, but it is an inherent and necessary part of the growth process. Second, creative destruction happens from...
