by Dan Mitchell | Aug 5, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
The recipe for economic growth is not complicated. You can put it in very simple terms, as Adam Smith did a few hundred years ago. Or you can develop and utilize data-heavy indexes like the ones published by the Fraser...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 1, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
Since both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump want government to be a bigger burden, there is zero chance of entitlement reform in the next four years. But that doesn’t change the fact that personal retirement accounts would be an...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 29, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
Regulations can be theoretically justified. Proponents simply need to show that expected benefits will be greater than likely costs. That’s the good news. The bad news is that very few examples of red tape pass this simple test. The net result is that we...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 26, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
For the final installment in this series (the first three parts can be viewed here, here, and here), let’s start with a video from Prager University. I like the video for the selfish reason that it matches my 2019 analysis. At the risk of over-simplification,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 25, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I wrote yesterday about an absurd example of media bias. A reporter for the New York Times authored a story about how people in the nation of Georgia supposedly miss communist enslavement. It was especially galling that the reporter repeatedly cited a radical Marxist,...
