by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
Hardly anybody noticed because the nation has been focused on protests about police misbehavior, but Joe Biden officially clinched the Democratic nomination this past week. And he’s now comfortably ahead in the political betting markets as well as public polling. If...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 21, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Because of his extremist views, I often refer to Senator Sanders as “Crazy Bernie.” You can argue I’m being unfair. After all, I pointed out during the last campaign that his voting record in the Senate was almost identical to the voting records of Hillary Clinton and...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 2, 2020 | Blogs, Taxation
One of the most significant developments in 2020 politics is how Democratic presidential candidates have embraced hard-left economic policies. Prominent analysts on the left have noted that even Joe Biden, ostensibly the most moderate of the candidates, has a very...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 20, 2019 | Blogs, Economics
When I was in London last week for Boris Johnson’s landslide victory, many people asked me whether Trump would win again in 2020. Since I was wrong about 2016, I told them I wasn’t the right person to ask. That being said, Trump has some positive economic tailwinds....
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 7, 2018 | Blogs, Uncategorized
We had an election yesterday in the United States (or, as Mencken sagely observed, an advance auction of stolen goods). Here are five things to keep in mind about the results. First, the GOP did better than most people (including me) expected. This tweet captures the...
