by Dan Mitchell | Apr 1, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
The debate over socialism shouldn’t even exist. Everywhere big government has been tried, it has failed. And we have reams of evidence that free-market economies dramatically out-perform statist economies. Yet the siren song of socialism still appeals to a subsection...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 27, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Europe, Government Spending, Taxation
With both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders agitating for higher taxes (and with more than a few Republicans also favoring more revenue because they don’t want to do any heavy lifting to restrain a growing burden of government), it’s time to examine the real-world...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 25, 2016 | Blogs, Economics
I try to avoid certain issues because they’re simply not that interesting. And I figure if they bore me – even though I’m a policy wonk, then they probably would be even more painful for everyone else. But every so often, I feel compelled to address a topic simply...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 24, 2016 | Blogs, Economics
James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute has an intriguing idea. Instead of a regular debate, he would like presidential candidates to respond to a handful of charts from the recent Economic Report of the President that supposedly highlight very...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 23, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Which group has suffered the most because of Obamanomics? That’s hard to answer. We know that the average family has less income today than when Obama took office. If we want to narrow things down, we know that blacks have endured hardship because of a weak economy....
