by Dan Mitchell | Mar 3, 2020 | Blogs, Trade
Notwithstanding dalliances in other fields, I’m a policy wonk. But I will pontificate (often incorrectly) on politics when asked, which is what happened in this interview about the electoral impact of the coronavirus. My basic point is that Trump is much better than...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 23, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
Early last year, I shared a video explaining that trade deficits generally don’t matter. I even suggested trade deficits might be a sign of economic strength because foreigners who earned dollars were anxious to invest them in the American economy. I’m recycling this...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 12, 2020 | Blogs, Taxation
I pointed out yesterday that Donald Trump has increased domestic spending at a faster rate than Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, or Jimmy Carter. The day before, I castigated him for proposing a budget that expands the burden of government spending by $2 trillion over the...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 11, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Trump’s new budget was released yesterday and almost every media outlet wrote about supposed multi-trillion dollar spending cuts when, in reality, the President’s budget actually calls for nearly $2 trillion of additional spending over the next 10 years. The bottom...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 10, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I would prefer not to write about President Trump’s new budget, largely because I know it’s not a serious proposal. Even before he was elected, I pointed out that Trump was a big-government Republican who had no intention of dealing with serious fiscal issues such as...
