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...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 9, 2025 | Blogs
After Friday’s column ranking American presidents, a reader emailed to ask about ranking foreign leaders. I responded by stating that Javier Milei is easily the best in the world. And it’s not even close. Beyond that, I didn’t have any...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 8, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
I’ve pointed out that Donald Trump and Joe Biden have very unfortunate similarities on issues such as trade and government spending. Sadly, it appears that they also like to engage in victim blaming when bad government policies lead...
