Free Markets Protect Consumers with “Mutually Reinforcing” Private Regulation

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 29, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Regulations

I’ve written before about the heavy costs of regulation, including these rather sobering statistics. Or, to be more accurate, here are some staggering numbers. Americans spend 8.8 billion hours every year filling out government forms. The economy-wide cost of...

According to Census Data, People Vote with their Feet for Less Government

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 26, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Taxation

The world is a laboratory and different nations are public policy experiments. Not surprisingly, the evidence from these experiments is that nations with more freedom tend to grow faster and enjoy more prosperity. Nations with big governments, by contrast, are more...

Everything You Need to Know about Healthcare Economics in One Chart

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2010 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Health Care

The title of this post may be a slight exaggeration. I actually recommend you read the entire two-page paper by Devon Herrick of the National Center for Policy Analysis. But this chart from that study is an excellent visual display of what’s wrong with the health care...