by Dan Mitchell | Mar 14, 2026 | Blogs, Monetary Policy
I have three-video primers on price gouging and public choice, so I may as well do the same thing for the 2008 financial crisis (click here for Part I). We’ll start with a video from Peter Wallison, which correctly notes how housing subsidies...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 15, 2026 | Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Let’s start today’s column with two simple and uncontroversial statements. Without real entitlement reform, the burden of government spending will grow dramatically over the next few decades. There are only three ways – taxes, borrowing, and money-printing – to...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2026 | Blogs, Monetary Policy
When he first ran for President, I observed that Trump was a big-government Republican. This doesn’t mean he’s part of the moderate GOP establishment, like Bush and Romney. But it does mean that there is considerable overlap in terms of...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 19, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
Back in 2022, I wrote a column about how major central banks had caused prices to spike by engaging in reckless monetary policy. I included charts showing massive expansions of central bank balance sheets by the U.S. Federal Reserve,...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 20, 2025 | Blogs, Monetary Policy
I have been very critical of the Federal Reserve. For a long time. The central bank has give us more than one hundred years of boom-and-bust monetary policy. And to make matters worse, the booms are false and the busts are real. Yet no...
