by Dan Mitchell | Jul 7, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I certainly don’t intend to do this for everyone who has made it to the White House, but I have produced big-picture economic assessments of several presidents. Herbert Hoover Franklin Roosevelt Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan George H.W. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Bush...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 5, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I don’t know whether I’ll live 3 more years or 30 more years. But I’m increasingly convinced that my “Never-Answered Question” will still be unanswered when I kick the bucket. One of the reasons for my confidence is that folks on the left have remarkably shoddy...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 2, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
In an interview with an economic organization from India last month, I discussed many of the economic issues associated with coronavirus (fiscal fallout, excess regulation, subsidized unemployment, etc). But I want to highlight this short clip since I had an...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 26, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
In early 2019, I released this video summarizing some of the evidence for free trade. The bad news is that I must not be very persuasive. Trump continued with protectionist policy. The good news is that we now have more evidence against that form of government...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 24, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Yesterday’s column focused on the theoretical argument for tax havens. At the risk of oversimplifying, I explained that the pressure of tax competition was necessary to prevent “stationary bandits” from saddling nations with “goldfish government.” And I specifically...
