by Dan Mitchell | Mar 14, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Way back in 2009, I narrated a video explaining that people worry too much about deficits and debt. Red ink isn’t desirable, to be sure, but I pointed out that the real problem is government spending. And the bottom line is that most types of government...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 12, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
I’ve narrated a video on why big government is theoretically bad for an economy, another video looking at the empirical evidence on government spending and economic performance, and also a video on the growth-maximizing size of the public sector. But if you want to...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 11, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
Every time I write a column criticizing Trump’s protectionism, I get pushback. Some of the resistance is from people who genuinely think trade barriers are a good thing, and I routinely respond by asking them to ponder these eight questions or these five charts. But I...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
I’m not a fan of international bureaucracies, but they’re not universally bad. Yes, we almost always get a bad policy agenda from the left-leaning political appointees who run these organizations. But it’s also true that the professional economists at these...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 7, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
The Swiss people are normally very sensible when asked to vote in national referendums. Here are some recent results. In 2010, nearly 60 percent of the electorate rejected a class-warfare income tax proposal. In 2014, Swiss voters overwhelmingly killed a minimum-wage...
