by Dan Mitchell | Nov 15, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Monetary Policy
I have a column in today’s New York Post, where I pull no punches as I comment on how the rest of the world is increasingly worried about Obama’s policies of easy money and deficit spending. I note that other nations often are guilty of the same mistakes, but that’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 10, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
One of my first blog posts (and the first one to get any attention) highlighted the amusing/embarrassing irony of having Chinese students laugh at Treasury Secretary Geithner when he claimed the United States had a strong-dollar policy. I suspect that even Tim...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 7, 2010 | Blogs, Monetary Policy
Chairman Ben Bernanke has announced that the Federal Reserve will buy about $600 billion of government bonds as part of what is being called QE2 (because this is the second big stage of “quantitative easing”). This actually isn’t printing money, but it has the same...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 25, 2010 | Blogs, Economics
Two CNBC stories are linked on the Drudge Report this morning, and they both highlight the growing risk of the Fed’s easy-money policy. The first story discusses whether the dollar will continue to depreciate. Since the “optimist” argument is based on global...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 3, 2010 | Bailouts, Blogs
In the “Five Things About Me” section of my blog, I included this blurb: A left-wing newspaper in the U.K. wrote that I’m “a high priest of light tax, small state libertarianism.” I assume they meant it as an insult, but it’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said about...
