by Dan Mitchell | Dec 19, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
The two main political parties are sniping at each other about the just-concluded tax deal, largely because Republicans are happy and Democrats are displeased that all of the 2001/2003 tax cuts are being extended for all taxpayers. Almost nobody is paying attention to...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2010 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Health Care
The title of this post may be a slight exaggeration. I actually recommend you read the entire two-page paper by Devon Herrick of the National Center for Policy Analysis. But this chart from that study is an excellent visual display of what’s wrong with the health care...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 4, 2010 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Thanks to the folks at the Mises Institute, Professor George Selgin of the University of Georgia (!) has a superb presentation on the failings of the Federal Reserve. George was one of my professors at George Mason University back in the 1980s and is one of the...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 29, 2010 | Blogs, Economics
I’m understandably fond of my video exposing the flaws of Keynesian stimulus theory, but I think my former intern has a great contribution to the debate with this new 5-minute mini-documentary. You may recognize Hiwa. She narrated a very popular video earlier this...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 18, 2010 | Bailouts, Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Ireland is in deep fiscal trouble and the Germans and the French apparently want the politicians in Dublin to increase the nation’s 12.5 percent corporate tax rate as the price for being bailed out. This is almost certainly the cause of considerable smugness and joy...
