by Dan Mitchell | May 25, 2020 | Blogs
Earlier this month, Neil Ferguson was awarded membership in the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame after he and his mistress were caught violating lockdown rules that Ferguson – in his role as a supposed public health expert – demanded for the entire United Kingdom. This was a...
by Dan Mitchell | May 20, 2020 | Bailouts, Blogs, Europe
I wrote earlier this month about coronavirus becoming an excuse for more bad public policy. American politicians certainly have been pushing all sorts of proposals for bigger government, showing that they have embraced the notion that you don’t want to let a “crisis...
by Dan Mitchell | May 18, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
When I write enough columns with the same underlying point, I sometimes create a special page to highlight the theme, such as the “Bureaucrat Hall of Fame” and “Poverty Hucksters.” I may have to do something similar for people who assert that America’s response to the...
by Dan Mitchell | May 9, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I’ve warned that the budgetary impact of the coronavirus may trigger another fiscal crisis in Europe. Especially Italy. But what about the United States? Will we reach a point, as Margaret Thatcher famously warned, of running out of other people’s money? We probably...
by Dan Mitchell | May 7, 2020 | Blogs, Health Care
Last October, before coronavirus became the world’s dominant issue, I shared this clever Remy video to help make the point that policies designed to save lives can go too far. Indeed, if they do enough harm to the economy, they can actually cause additional death....
