by Andrew F. Quinlan | May 6, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared on The Daily Caller on May 5, 2016. Earlier this week, Puerto Rico’s Governor Garcia Padilla (D) announced the island would default on a $422 million debt payment. Padilla’s move is in part an effort to get Congress to pass a rescue package by...
by Brian Garst | Jan 25, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared on The Daily Caller on January 22, 2016. Puerto Rico’s fiscal mess has Congress working frantically to provide “relief.” The island territory is overloaded with debt and cannot meet its obligations, and House Speaker Paul Ryan set March as a...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 25, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
Shortly after Obamacare was enacted, I started writing about groups victimized by the law. But after highlighting how children, low-income workers, and retirees were disadvantaged by government-run healthcare, I soon realized that I wasn’t saying anything new or...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 7, 2015 | Blogs, Economics
Is the third time the charm, at least for bailouts? First, we had the TARP bailout in the United States, and that turned out to be a corrupt mess. Second, we had the Greek bailout, which has squandered hundreds of billions of euros to prop up a welfare state. Now we...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 14, 2015 | Bailouts, Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Government Spending
I’ve shared lots of analysis (both serious and satirical) about the mess in Greece and I feel obliged to comment on the latest agreement for another bailout. But how many times can I write that the Greek government spends too much money and has a punitive tax system...
