by Dan Mitchell | Jan 20, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
When I wrote back in 2012 that France was committing fiscal suicide, I should have guessed that President Hollande would get impatient and push for even more statism. Sure enough, the BBC reports that France’s President has a new plan. The ostensible goal is to reduce...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 16, 2015 | Blogs, Economics
Whenever I pontificate about the health of the American economy, I feel like Goldilocks. Instead of arguing that the economic porridge is too hot or too cold, or that the economic bed is too hard or too soft, I conclude that we’re stuck in the middle. We generally...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 12, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I don’t like the inequality debate because it’s a distraction from the far more important issue of how to generate more growth. Nonetheless, I feel compelled to once again address the topic. Let’s start with a moral observation: There’s nothing wrong with the kind of...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 4, 2015 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a Paris-based international bureaucracy. It used to engage in relatively benign activities such as data collection, but now focuses on promoting policies to expand the size and scope of government. That’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 19, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Taxation
Whatever happened to Elizabeth Warren? A couple of years ago, she was the pin-up girl for the crazy left thanks to fatuous statements about “you didn’t build that.” But now she’s faded into the background and other politicians are getting more attention for their...
