by Dan Mitchell | Mar 23, 2026 | Blogs, Bureaucracy
The good news is that I spent the past seven days in Buenos Aires as part of “Javier Milei Week.” The bad news is that I’m now heading back home, and that meant a stop in Houston this morning and another fun encounter with...
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...
