by Dan Mitchell | Sep 9, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Based on the dismal data from the Minneapolis Federal Reserve (as well as our own experiences), we know Obamanomics doesn’t work in the United States. But we also know bigger government doesn’t work in France. And we know it doesn’t work in Japan. We know it doesn’t...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 29, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I got involved in a bit of a controversy last year about presidential profligacy. Some guy named Rex Nutting put together some data on government spending and claimed that Barack Obama was the most frugal President in recent history. I pointed out that Mr. Nutting’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 27, 2013 | Blogs, Europe, Taxation
I’m not a big fan of the European Commission. For those not familiar with this entity, it’s sort of the European version of the executive-branch bureaucracy we have in Washington. And like their counterparts in Washington, the Brussels-based bureaucracy enjoys a very...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 26, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
Want to know why – as shown by this map – most of America’s richest counties are part of the metropolitan DC region? Part of the answer is that federal bureaucrats are overpaid. Another part of the answer is that the Washington area is filled with consultants and...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 22, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I’m a big fan of that form of satire. And if I’m looking at cartoons specifically about statist economic policy, my favorites include Chuck Asay’s dead pig cartoon, as well as his cartoon about the big bad wolf. And this Michael Ramirez headwinds cartoon is one of the...
