by Dan Mitchell | Apr 11, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
When I wrote about long-run policy lessons from the pandemic, I mostly focused on the incompetence of the bureaucrats at the FDA and CDC. I also wrote that Sweden had a very sensible approach. Politicians did not...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 21, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
I rarely write about the national debt for the simple reason that it is far more important to focus on the burden of government spending. After all, improper spending saps economic vitality, regardless of whether it is financed...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 5, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
When I write about Sweden, it is usually to point out the nation’s schizophrenic approach to public policy – very bad on fiscal issues but very good in other areas like trade, regulation, and monetary policy. Though there are even some good...
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 | Sep 13, 2021 | Blogs, Health Care
Just like I’ve never had (until recently) any reason to define capitalism, I also have never felt any need to define libertarianism. Some people use the non-aggression principle, but that strikes me as more of a statement about how we should behave. What if...
