by Dan Mitchell | Mar 22, 2024 | Blogs, Economic Growth
About 12 years ago, there was a controversial claim (based in part on some of my analysis) that Obama was the most fiscally conservative president of the 1980-2012 period, which includes Reagan. I crunched the numbers to show where that claim was true...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 1, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Education, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
As usual (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, etc), let’s start the year by listing three things I’m hoping for and three things I worry may happen. Let’s start with the potential good news. Here are the three things that plausibly could...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 18, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
I first became interested in public policy in the 1970s because of Ronald Reagan and his uplifting message about unleashing America’s economy by getting government out of the way. There were plenty of establishment types inside the...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 31, 2023 | Blogs, Trade
As part of my annual “hopes and fears” column, I expressed optimism at the start of 2021 that Joe Biden would steer the country back toward free trade after the economically debilitating protectionist mistakes of the Trump era. I’ve...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 23, 2023 | Blogs, Taxation, Trade
When President Biden proposed a 10-year tax hike of about $3 trillion in 2021, I was very critical. But my hostility was not because Biden is a Democrat. I’ve also condemned Republicans who support higher taxes...
