by Dan Mitchell | Oct 29, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I fully agree with my leftist friends who say that corporations want to extract every penny they can from consumers. I also (mostly) agree with them when they say corporations are soulless entities that don’t care about people. But after they’re done venting, I then...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 25, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
In my 30-plus years in Washington, I’ve lived through some very bad pieces of legislation. George H.W. Bush’s betrayal of his “read my lips” promise with the 1990s tax increase. Bill Clinton’s 1993 tax hike, which OMB admitted 18 months later was a failure. All sorts...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2017 | Blogs, States
When I write about the actions of state governments, it’s usually to highlight a specific bad policy. As you can imagine, states like California, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey give me a never-ending amount of material. But I frequently run across...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 4, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Time for another trip down Memory Lane to the early years of the Obama Administration. Two days ago, I wrote about the market-wrecking price controls in Obamacare. And yesterday, I shared a new study exposing the utter failure of Obama’s Cash-for-Clunkers scheme. Now...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jun 8, 2017 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Investor’s Business Daily on June 6, 2017. “Main Street” is Americana. Literally, it’s the primary road in a town, but culturally it’s much more than that. Main street is synonymous with mainstream, but it also...
