by Dan Mitchell | May 13, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
I wrote two days ago about subsidized unemployment, followed later in the day by this interview. This controversy raises a fundamental economic issue. I explained in the interview that employers only hire people when they expect a new worker will generate at...
by Dan Mitchell | May 5, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
My approach during the Trump years was very simple. If he did good things, I applauded.If he did bad things, I criticized. Other people, however, muted their views on policy because of their partisan or personal feelings about Trump. I...
by Dan Mitchell | May 4, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
There are all sorts of long-running battles in the economics profession, perhaps most notably the never-ending dispute about Keynesian economics. Another contentious issues is the degree to which society should accept less growth in order to achieve...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 28, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
We can learn a lot by looking at economic history. It’s instructive to note, for instance, that the United States evolved from agricultural poverty to middle-class prosperity in the 1800s – during a time when the burden of government spending...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 11, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
There’s a growing controversy about whether the various coronavirus-lockdown rules should be relaxed for people who have been vaccinated (as opposed to being relaxed for hypocritical politicians). And if those restrictions are relaxed, vaccinated people...
