by Dan Mitchell | Feb 24, 2026 | Blogs, Bureaucracy
Since I have to travel a lot, I have a personal interest in wanting air travel to be affordable, safe, and free of hassle. The good news is that Jimmy Carter’s transportation deregulation has made travel significantly more affordable. It’s also good news...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 11, 2025 | Blogs, Education, Government Spending
The United States has a big problem. In recent years, I’ve looked at how two cities (Los Angeles and Chicago) dramatically boosted spending on government schools, yet in both cases educational outcomes declined. I also wrote about similar evidence, on a...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 2, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
As noted in my First Theorem of Government, politics is a largely a scam, a way for well-connected insiders to obtain undeserved wealth. With taxpayers, consumers, and businesses bearing the cost, of course. Unfortunately (but perhaps...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 9, 2025 | Blogs, States
Why is the private sector efficient and the government inefficient? I answered that question back in 2017, noting that there is feedback (both positive and negative) in the private sector. With government, by contrast, it seems that there are no consequences...
by Dan Mitchell | May 30, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
I’ve written many times about bad government policy in California (too many times to count), but I’ve only highlighted bad policy in Los Angeles four times over the past 16 years (here, here, here, and here). But something caught my eye that demands...
