by Dan Mitchell | Jan 1, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
Let’s look at three very important things that may happen this year and what they might mean. 1. Will the Republican Senate support genuine entitlement reform? One of the best things to happen in recent years is that House Republicans embraced genuine entitlement...
by CF&P | Dec 30, 2014 | News, Prosperity Updates
News & Views Coalition Calls for Accurate Scoring Tired of inaccurate scoring using Keynesian and other big government assumptions, a coalition of free market think-tanks is urging Republican leadership to demand better....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 30, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian
I’m tempted to feel a certain degree of sympathy for Paul Krugman. As a leading proponent of the notion that bigger government stimulates growth (a.k.a., Keynesian economics), he’s in the rather difficult position of rationalizing why the economy was stagnant when...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 29, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Many people fantasize about supermodels, but not me. I’m a bit of an oddball. In my fantasy world, I want to shrink the federal government back to the size envisioned by the Founding Fathers. I can’t stop myself from wistfully dreaming about the expanded freedom and...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 28, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
We have some good news to share. A government has just announced that it is going to end the unfair practice of giving government bureaucrats pension benefits that are far greater than those available for workers in the economy’s productive sector. Can you guess which...
