by Brian Garst | Feb 14, 2024 | Featured, Testimony and Speeches
[PDF] February 9, 2024 The Honorable Jerome H. PowellChairBoard of Governors of the Federal Reserve System20th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20551 Re:...
by CF&P | Jan 9, 2024 | Featured, News, Press Releases
For Immediate ReleaseTuesday, January 9, 2024 CF&P Calls for Investigation into SEC Over False Bitcoin ETF News, Gensler Hacking Claims (Washington, D.C., Tuesday, January 9, 2024) In response to today’s events in which the U.S. Securities and Exchange...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 2, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Education, Featured
I have a multi-part series on why people shouldn’t trust economists (see here, here, here, here, and here). I even wrote a tongue-in-cheek column asking whether economists were “Useless, Despicable, and Loathsome People.” That being...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 9, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Featured, Laffer Curve, Taxation
Two months ago, I wrote about a remarkable example of the Laffer Curve, involving Ireland’s low 12.5 percent corporate tax rate. According to the New York Times, Ireland was collecting so much corporate tax revenue that the government was having a...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 1, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Featured
It’s very hard to give Joe Biden a good grade for economic policy after examining issues such as subsidies, inflation, protectionism, household income, fiscal policy, red tape, employment, and poverty. So I was surprised last...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 9, 2023 | Blogs, Featured, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
State-to-state migration is an underappreciated issue, for both economic and political reasons. And I’ve explained that taxes play a huge role. In Part I of this series, we looked at how people – and taxable income – are moving from high-tax...
