by Dan Mitchell | Jan 20, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
In mid-2021, I wrote about long-run policy lessons from the coronavirus pandemic. That column focused on insights from my five-part series (see here, here, here, here, and here) about the failure of big government. More specifically,...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 14, 2021 | Blogs, Health Care
I’ve written many times about the value of cost-benefit analysis for government policy. My go-to example is that a nationwide 5-mph speed limit would reduce traffic fatalities, but the resulting economic damage would be so pervasive that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 10, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve already written a column about the best and worst developments of 2020. But what if we wanted to identify a lesson that society should have learned from the past 12 months? Well, there’s an obvious answer, especially for those of us with libertarian sympathies....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 29, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Regulations
Every so often, I highlight tweets that deserve attention because they say something important, usually in a clever and succinct fashion. Best-ever tweet about inequality. Best tweet about capitalism vs socialism. The most depressing tweet. Trump’s worst-ever tweet....
by Dan Mitchell | May 14, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
I’ve written four columns (here, here, here, and here) on the general failure of government health bureaucracies to effectively respond to the coronavirus. The pattern was so pronounced that it even led me to unveil a Seventh Theorem of Government. I’m not surprised...
