by Dan Mitchell | Nov 15, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
I was going to continue my Second-Edition-of-Trump series (see here, here, here, and here) by writing about what to expect with regards to trade (pessimistic) and then taxes (optimistic). But I’m shifting gears today because the bureaucrats at the...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 12, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
During his first term, Donald Trump did not do a good job on government spending. Instead of draining the swamp, he expanded it. The most damning evidence is that he increased domestic spending at a faster rate than Barack Obama. And that’s not even...
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...
