by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
Over the past few months, I’ve written a 7-part series on Bidenomics, reviewing the president’s record on issues such as subsidies, inflation, protectionism, household income, fiscal policy, red tape, and employment. Regarding the last item, a big problem is...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 6, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Last week, I shared some great information from Superabundance, a new book that shows how economic liberty has made us much better off, as measured by how much more we can buy per hour worked. Today, let’s look at a related benefit of...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 3, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
Let’s revisit the issues of Bidenomics. Previous editions of this series have focused on Biden’s dismal record with regards to subsidies, inflation, protectionism, household income, fiscal policy, and red tape. The assessment has not been...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 1, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I wrote last year that today’s Americans are much richer than their parents and grandparents (and the gap becomes even more enormous when comparing with earlier generations). But the data I cited almost surely understate the improvement in...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 23, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
When I wrote the first edition of “Don’t Trust Economists” back in 2010, the column focused on a chart showing that economists failed to predict every major economic downturn for the previous two decades. Well, we now have some new data making the same...
