by Dan Mitchell | Dec 9, 2025 | Blogs, Trade
Back in 2018, I wrote about Trump’s foolish protectionism backfiring against American farmers. But rather than reverse the mistake of higher taxes on trade, Trump decided to take more money from taxpayers and give it to farmers. This was a tragic...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 20, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
Trump does not understand trade. But he is effective at imposing bad trade policy, as captured by this tweet. And why did Trump impose that bad trade policy? Because he mistakenly thinks trade deficits are bad. So have his big trade taxes lowered...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 19, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Education
Let’s start today’s column with this reminder from John Stossel that federal involvement in education has produced bad outcomes and that the Department of Education should be abolished. The good news is that President Trump does not like that bureaucracy. He’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 16, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
There are five contestants so far for the 2025 counter-tweet of the year. Slapping down a leftist who wanted people to think freebies are the route to political success. Slapping down a leftist who wanted people to think capitalism is correlated with poverty. Slapping...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 11, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
In this new interview with John Stossel, I explained that cronyism and socialism are bad, while creative destruction is good. The discussion focuses on Trump’s troubling desire to have partial government ownership of various companies. I’ve already written...
