by Dan Mitchell | Nov 20, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
Trump does not understand trade. But he is effective at imposing bad trade policy, as captured by this tweet. And why did Trump impose that bad trade policy? Because he mistakenly thinks trade deficits are bad. So have his big trade taxes lowered...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 16, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
There are five contestants so far for the 2025 counter-tweet of the year. Slapping down a leftist who wanted people to think freebies are the route to political success. Slapping down a leftist who wanted people to think capitalism is correlated with poverty. Slapping...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 14, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Having written back in August about China being the least-successful ethnically Chinese country, I was interested to see this recent tweet. Mr. Demos of Pnyx speculated that China would be as backward as India today if the communists has not prevailed...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 12, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
I lied. Back in 2023, I wrote that Part V would be the last segment in my series on blue-to-red tax migration (with Parts I-IV available here, here, here, and here). But I’ve decided to extend the series because here’s a must-share map...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 11, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
In this new interview with John Stossel, I explained that cronyism and socialism are bad, while creative destruction is good. The discussion focuses on Trump’s troubling desire to have partial government ownership of various companies. I’ve already written...
