by Dan Mitchell | Oct 16, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Europe is in deep trouble. That’s an oversimplification, of course, since there are a handful of nations that seem to be moving in the right direction (or at least not moving rapidly in the wrong direction). But notwithstanding those exceptions, Europe in general...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 12, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Back in 2010, I shared some wise words from Walter Williams and Theodore Dalrymple about how society can become unstable when people figure they can “vote themselves money.” On a related note, I shared the famous “riding in the wagon” cartoons in 2011 and the “Danish...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 8, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
In the last few months of 2013, Obamacare suffered a series of embarrassing setbacks dealing with everything from a clunky website to plan cancellations tothe White House feeling compelled to arbitrarily ignore the law. Since that time, though, people seem to have...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 7, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs
Does big government necessarily and automatically imply incompetent government? Unfortunately, that seems to be the case. Robert Samuelson, for instance, has written that the federal government is so large that it breeds failure and disappointment. I added my two...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 3, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian
You’re probably surprised by the title of this post. You may even be wondering if President Obama had an epiphany on the road to Greece? I don’t mean to burst your bubble, but the leader we’re talking about isn’t the President of the United States. Instead, we’re...
