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...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 7, 2025 | Blogs
In 2020, I put together a ranking of recent presidents, mostly because I wanted to make the point that partisan labels don’t necessarily matter. Indeed, over the past 60-plus years, Republicans were some of the worst in terms of statist policy...
