by Dan Mitchell | Aug 21, 2023 | Blogs
Mostly because politicians focus on the seen rather than the unseen , I’ve unfortunately had several reasons to write about government policies and premature death. Government-run health carePandemic lockdownsFDA regulationGun...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 27, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Europe, Trade
Recent years have been very depressing for supporters of free trade. Trump pushed protectionist policies. Now Biden is pushing protectionist policies. And the European Union is pushing protectionist policies using global warming as an excuse. More...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 22, 2023 | Blogs
I’m a great fan of nature, but our friends on the left seem a bit extreme. Self-styled environmentalists assert that you’re racist if you oppose their agenda.Some of them don’t believe in bathing.Or consider the ones who produce/use...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 14, 2022 | Blogs, Europe, Trade
For the first 50-plus years of my life, free trade was in the ascendancy. Policy makers had learned a big lesson from the Great Depression about how protectionism was economic poison, and various trade agreements after World War II helped...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 22, 2022 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Whether they call it global warming or climate change, activists on the left act as if the issue is just an excuse to extort money and expand the power of government. In Part I, I wrote about kleptocrats exploiting the issue to shake down western...