by Dan Mitchell | Jul 22, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Government Spending
In a column in today’s New York Post, I mock White House unemployment calculations and then explain why companies are not anxious to hire more workers. The White House last year released a supposedly scientific analysis that claimed to show that adopting the...
by Brian Garst | Jul 6, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Taxation
The statists in Congress are enamored with Keynesian big government policies and profligate spending as a means of “stimulus.” But while they travel the country to tout so-called “stimulus success,” the public displays a far better...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 5, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Economics
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the UK-based Telegraph has a very dismal outlook for the US economy. I’m more optimistic. While I think Obama’s policies will prevent America from enjoying a Reagan-type boom, I don’t think the current Administration is repeating all the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 4, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
The fault line in American politics is not really between Republicans and Democrats, but rather between taxpayers and the Washington political elite. Here are two examples that symbolize why economic policy is such a mess. First, we have President Bush’s former...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 2, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, States, Taxation
Chris Christie of New Jersey has done a remarkable job so far, but his biggest battles are still ahead of him. A key fight is whether the state will impose a cap on property taxes. As the Wall Street Journal opines, this reform has worked very well in Massachusetts...
