by Dan Mitchell | May 24, 2018 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by CNSNews.com on May 23, 2018. Conservative policymakers are all-too-familiar with the problems associated with government contractors ripping off taxpayers. Look no further than the $464 million Healthcare.gov website that became an $824 million...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | May 20, 2018 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by The Daily Caller on May 19, 2018. At a time when victories against cronyism seem few and far between, consumers have a new reason to celebrate with the announcement that the United States and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have reached an...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 27, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
Because of their aggressive support for bigger government, my least-favorite international bureaucracies are the International Monetary Fund and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. But I’m increasingly displeased by the European Bank for...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 19, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
The good news is that some honest leftists have thrown in the towel and now openly admit that capitalism generates more prosperity. They still don’t want free markets, of course. For ideological reasons, they continue to push for a big welfare state. But at least they...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 8, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I wrote last month about the risk of Trump harming American workers, consumers, and producers by pulling the United States out of NAFTA. That’s still a danger to the U.S. economy, but it’s been pushed to the back burner by a more immediate threat – the President’s...