by Dan Mitchell | Feb 28, 2026 | Blogs, Economics
Back in 2024, J.D. Vance picked a fight with Frederic Bastiat. He lost, unsurprisingly. What Vance did not understand (or pretended not to understand) is that government intervention has “unseen” effects that are almost always negative. Today, let’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 27, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
As part of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity’s Latin American Liberty project. I’m spending most of the winter south of the border. I’ve been teaching economics at Universidad de la Libertad in Mexico City (one more week of classes remaining for my lucky – or...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 20, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
In Part I and Part II of this series, we looked at research showing that Americans are bearing the burden of Trump’s trade taxes. Those findings are a useful antidote to Trump’s silly and illiterate claim that foreign companies are swallowing the...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 17, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
In Part I of this series, we reviewed some new research from the New York Federal Reserve. That study showed that Americans bear about 90 percent of the burden of Trump’s Liberation Day trade taxes. Though I added my own two cents because I don’t actually care...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 14, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
This 2019 video explains uses theory and evidence to argue in favor of free trade. Are my arguments still correct? Let’s update our analysis of trade by looking specifically at the impact of Trump’s second-term...
