by Dan Mitchell | Jul 21, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Economics, Europe, Government Spending
For understandable reasons, the fiscal mess in Greece has dominated the European economic headlines. But there are other developments that deserve attention. Amazingly, some politicians think Europe’s stagnant economy can be improved with more harmonization, more...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 16, 2015 | Blogs, Taxation
When I wrote about the media, it’s generally to criticize sloppy and/or biased reporting But maybe I need to have a new category that features misleading headlines. For instance, here’s a report by Fox Business News that grabbed my attention because of the headline....
by Dan Mitchell | May 15, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
There’s a Terror Wing in the Moocher Hall of Fame, so I guess it stands to reason that I should create a French Wing of the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame. After all, few nations can compete with France in the contest to over-tax and over-spend. And a lot of that spending...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 30, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
Economists generally like competition because it promotes economic efficiency, more prosperity, lower prices, and higher wages. But some types of competition can be misguided. For instance, Americans used to dominate membership in the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame. Now,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 5, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Crime, Society
According to Gallup, Americans now identify “government” as the most important problem facing the United States. That doesn’t surprise. Gallup also found last year that big government is considered a far greater danger to the nation that big business or big labor....
