by Dan Mitchell | Nov 11, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
Much to my surprise, the United States is going to have a second Trump presidency. To assess what that means, especially considering his mixed performance during his first four years, I’m going to write a series of columns about the potential policy...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 4, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Education, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
To augment my four-part series on the economics of government spending, here’s a video from Prager University explaining how big government doesn’t work. The video, narrated by Professor Joshua6 Rauh of Stanford, highlights three major types of spending and...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 27, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
As I wrote last month, the world is a laboratory that teaches us about the relative merits of free enterprise and statism. I usually apply this insight to national governments. Countries with total statism (North Korea, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Venezuela) are...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 25, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
Other than noting that it is a form of collectivism, coercion, and interventionism, I have not paid much attention to fascism. Today, we’ll take a closer look at this statist ideology, and we’ll start with this video from Matt Kibbe. And since I’ll be...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 24, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
In Part I of this series about six months ago, I wrote that “I favor ‘freedom conservatism‘ over ‘national conservatism‘ because the former is unambiguously based on liberty and the latter veers toward populism.” And I defined a populist as “someone who exploits...
