by Dan Mitchell | Sep 16, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market
I don’t know if this is hope or change, but the United States fell from 2nd to 9th in the Forbes index of “Best Countries for Business.” Denmark is first, which may be a surprise, but the Scandinavian country is very free market other than fiscal policy. Hong Kong,...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 6, 2010 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
In a free society, people obviously should be free to join unions and companies should be free to negotiate with unions. But that also means that companies should be free to resist union demands and hire non-union workers. There is no right or wrong in these battles,...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 3, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Taxation
Just because something is free, that doesn’t mean there is no cost. This is the core message of Walter Williams’ column, which uses the example of “employer-paid” Social Security taxes to explain how politicians specialize in giving us very expensive things for...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 2, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Health Care
As is so often the case, Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe hits the nail on the head, asking why taxpayers should be forced to fund embryonic stem-cell research. The moral issues in this debate are very important, to be sure, but Jacoby’s column takes a different...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 30, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Regulations
Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune makes several excellent points in his column on the recent salmonella scare, commenting on the absurd tendency to reward government bureaucracies that screw up. But more important, he explains that there are very strong incentives...
