by Dan Mitchell | Feb 7, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
To augment my four-part video series about trade (dealing with the WTO, creative destruction, deficits, and economics), here’s part of my recent lecture about Trump’s trade policy to the Universidad de Libertad in Mexico City For those who...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 2, 2025 | Blogs
Today’s column is going to be about the contentious issue of immigration. But I’m going to take off my economist hat (perhaps a good thing) and become an amateur political pundit. Let’s start with this short clip from a recent interview. There’s always...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2025 | Blogs, Trade
Taxes are bad for growth and government intervention is bad for growth. Protectionism is a combination of those two bad policies. Government takes more of our money and does so in a way that allows politicians to distort the economy. But, unlike in...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 25, 2025 | Blogs, Trade
In Trump’s fourth year in the White House, back in early 2020, I wrote that the trade deficit was rising because the economy was doing well. I specifically observed in that column that “the trade deficit is increasing in large part because Trump’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 22, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs
Regular readers know I have a skeptical attitude about Donald Trump. His first term was a mix of good and bad policies and I expect a similar jumble of good and bad policies in his second term. Consider, for instance, the commonly held...
