by Dan Mitchell | Dec 24, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
For folks who aren’t busy with last-minute Christmas shopping (this book is a great gift), here’s a video looking at economic myths. The video begins with Professor Ben Powell debunking five myths about socialism. And it ends with me debunking seven myths about...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 22, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
During the Biden years, I cited various data sources to show that his statist policies were hurting ordinary people. Employment-Cost Index Median Household Income Real Earnings But my criticisms were not based on partisanship. I praise both Republicans and...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 20, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Let’s start today’s column with a refresher look at my video on the Rahn Curve. Though maybe it should be called the Armey Curve. Or even the Barro Curve since Professor Robert Robert Barro from Harvard graphed the relationship between government...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 16, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
In Part I of this series, I explained that modern welfare states are in deep trouble because of falling birth rates. The core of the problem is that entitlement programs generally tax young people to subsidize old people. And fewer babies today means fewer workers...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 13, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Europe, Tax Harmonization
My views on the European Union are summarized in my three–part series entitled “Yes to Globalization, No to Global Governance.” In other words, I liked the European Union in the past when it was basically a free-trade pact among European...
