by Dan Mitchell | Jun 3, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
As part of my recent appearance on The Square Circle (we discussed Uvalde police, gun control, and Ukraine), I said that the new Social Security numbers were the under-reported story of the week. For more details, I was referring to the latest Trustees Report,...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 3, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
The title of this column is an exaggeration. What we’re really going to do today is explain the main things you need to know about government debt. We’ll start with this video from Kite and Key Media, which correctly observes...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 1, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
It’s an annual tradition (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, etc) to list a handful of things that I hope might happen in the upcoming year, as well as the things I fear may happen. Sadly, since I understand the economics of “public choice” (something...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 2, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
It’s impossible to predict when another pandemic will strike. But there’s one future crisis that we already know about, and I recently spoke about that issue to the Liberty International World Conference in Medellin. At first, I wasn’t planning to share this...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 1, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
In an ideal world, Americans would have personal retirement accounts, just like workers in Australia, Sweden, Chile, Hong Kong, Israel, Switzerland, and a few dozen other nations. But we’re not in that ideal world. We are forced...
