by Dan Mitchell | Aug 21, 2023 | Blogs
Mostly because politicians focus on the seen rather than the unseen , I’ve unfortunately had several reasons to write about government policies and premature death. Government-run health carePandemic lockdownsFDA regulationGun...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I have repeatedly explained that spending restraint is good fiscal policy. And I have specifically explained that you achieve this goal by limiting spending so that it grows slower than the productive sector of the economy. A fringe...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 14, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
When I visited Argentina last November to give some speeches, I expressed a lot of pessimism and rhetorically asked whether the country could be rescued. In a column earlier this month, I followed up with two reasons for why Argentina is a basket...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 7, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Monetary Policy
The U.K.-based Economist calculated a few years ago that Taiwan has been the world’s fastest growing economy over the previous 100 years. That’s not a big surprise since it started poor and is following the tried-and-true recipe for...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’m a strong believer in rights, assuming they are defined properly (i.e., they don’t require trampling on the rights of others). Unfortunately, many politicians assert people have “rights” that can only be fulfilled by exploiting others...