by Dan Mitchell | Aug 6, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
When I was young and innocent, I thought that giving welfare handouts to advocates of terrorism was the most perverse and disgusting way to abuse taxpayers. Now that I’m old and jaded, I’ve learned that governments are so masochistically stupid that they routinely...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 4, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Does the economic chaos in Greece suggest that government should be bigger? Is Venezuela’s economic collapse evidence that larger governments boost growth? Should we learn from Italy’s pervasive stagnation that public sectors should be expanded? Most people, looking...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 1, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
Donald Trump is, to be charitable, a rather unique and colorful presidential candidate. He seems incapable of letting a day pass without doing something that makes the political establishment shudder with disdain. Since I’m not a fan of the status quo in Washington, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 29, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I’m still in China, as part of a week-long teaching assignment about markets, entrepreneurship, economics, and fiscal policy at Northeastern University in Shenyang. One point that I’ve tried to get across to the students is that China should not copy the United...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 5, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
European economic analysts are paying too much attention to the United Kingdom and too little attention to Italy. Yes, the Brexit decision is important, and the United Kingdom is the world’s 5th-largest economy so it merits attention to see if there are any speed...
