by Dan Mitchell | Aug 10, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Education
Over the past few years, Hillary Clinton has taken advantage of several opportunities to demonstrate that she doesn’t understand economics. Though that’s not a problem. I have friends who routinely demonstrate their economic ignorance by saying things that don’t make...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 15, 2015 | Blogs, Education
Our friends who believe in big government have this funny habit of self-exempting themselves from the bad policies that they impose on the rest of the population. Statists are very opposed to so-called tax havens, for instance, because they don’t want there to be any...
by Dan Mitchell | May 24, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Education, Health Care
What’s the most effective way of screwing up a sector of the economy? Since I’m a fiscal policy economist, I’m tempted to say that bad tax policy is the fastest way of causing damage. And France might be my top example. But other forms of government intervention also...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 5, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Education
I’ve written many times about the shortcomings of government schools at the K-12 level. We spend more on our kids than any other nation, yet our test scores are comparatively dismal. And one of my points, based on this very sobering chart from the Cato...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 20, 2015 | Blogs, Education
No other nation in the world spends as much on education as the United States. According to our leftist friends, who prefer to measure inputs rather than outputs, this is a cause for celebration. I guess it shows we have the best intentions. Or maybe we love our kids...
