by Andrew F. Quinlan | Aug 5, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article originally appeared on The Daily Caller on August 4, 2016. It was announced this week that one of Elon Musk’s companies, Tesla Motors, will buy one of his other companies, SolarCity, for an all-stock deal worth $2.6 billion. The merger was first proposed...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 26, 2016 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I have a Bureaucrat Hall of Fame to publicize civil servants who manage to get wildly over-paid while being notoriously under-worked. And I have a Moocher Hall of Fame to identify welfare recipients who have displayed special skills in living off the labor of other...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 21, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
Last year, I shared the most depressing PowerPoint slide in Danish history. Back in 2011, I wrote about a depressing picture of tax complexity in America. Let’s continue with the “depressing” theme today. James Bessen, from Boston University Law School, has an...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 7, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
My main problem with Hillary Clinton is that she not only supports the bloated and enervating welfare state that already exists, but she wants to make it even bigger. Indeed, there’s only a very small gap between her and crazy Bernie Sanders when you examine their...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 22, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian
The American economy is in the doldrums. And has been for most this century thanks to bad policy under both Obama and Bush. So what’s needed to boost growth and create jobs? A new video from Learn Liberty, narrated by Professor Don Boudreaux (who also was the narrator...
