by Dan Mitchell | Oct 19, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
If this blog was an episode of Jeopardy, the response to the title of this post would be “Name three things that Dan Mitchell doesn’t like.” But this blog isn’t a game show. It’s a serious forum* for discussing how we protect freedom and prosperity from ever-expanding...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 6, 2013 | Blogs, Economics
It appears that the government shutdown, which technically is a battle over annual appropriations legislation for so-called discretionary spending, is going to drag on for a while. The Obama Administration has shown zero willingness to negotiate, even though...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 29, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I haven’t written much about the budget fights over a government shutdown, Obamacare, the continuing resolution, and the debt limit for the simple reason that the battles are mostly about politics and strategy rather than policy. At the risk of oversimplifying, here’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 19, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
As we get closer to the debt limit, the big spenders in Washington are becoming increasingly hysterical about the supposed possibility of default if politicians lose the ability to borrow more money. I testified yesterday to the Joint Economic Committee on “The...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 27, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
About two weeks ago, while making an important point about the Laffer Curve, here’s what I wrote about the fiscal disaster in Detroit. Detroit’s problems are the completely predictable result of excessive government. Just as statism explains the problems of Greece....
