by Dan Mitchell | Sep 16, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Keynesian
Regular readers know that I give Trump mixed grades on economic policy. He gets good marks on issues such as taxes and regulation, but bad marks in other areas, most notably spending and trade. Which is why I’ve sometimes asserted that there has been only a small...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 13, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
During the Obama years, I frequently criticized the Administration’s bad policy choices. On a wide range of issues. But I also expressed disappointment when President Obama arbitrarily and unilaterally decided to override or overlook laws that were inconvenient to his...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 10, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
With the election less than two months away, there’s a lot of discussion and debate about Trump’s performance. I put together a report card last year showing that his economic policies have been a mixed bag, with good grades on tax and regulation, but bad grades...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
Way back in early 2017, I warned in an interview that Trump would be a big spender (sadly, I was right). But I wasn’t being reflexively anti-Trump. Here’s a clip from that same program where I speculated that Trump might have the political skill to win support from...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 20, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
The best feature of libertarians is that we are very principled and look at everything through the lens of the non-aggression principle. By contrast, the worst feature of politics, as explained by the Ninth Theorem of Government, is that it encourages people look at...
