by Dan Mitchell | Feb 11, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
Back in 2014, I shared two videos, one narrated by Prof. Don Boudreaux and the other narrated by Prof. Deirdre McCloskey, making the point that grinding poverty and material deprivation were the norm for most of human history. It wasn’t until capitalism...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 10, 2021 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
There’s a recipe for growth and prosperity. It’s called capitalism. As Dan Hannan explains in this video, it’s the way to help all groups in a society become richer. This is a great video about how free enterprise delivers prosperity for the masses. And...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 8, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
While I freely self-identify as a libertarian, I don’t think of myself as a philosophical ideologue. Instead, I’m someone who likes digging into data to determine the impact of government policy. And because I’ve repeatedly noticed that more government...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 26, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
I rarely write about media bias, but I sometimes come across stories that cry out for correction because of blatant inaccuracies. The New York Times asserting that government schools are “starved of funding” when taxpayer subsidies actually have...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 20, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations, Trade
Since both political parties have sent good and bad people to the White House, I don’t think it makes much sense to compare all Democratic presidents vs all Republican presidents. But we can learn a lot by looking at the track record of specific presidents....
