by Dan Mitchell | Apr 14, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Regulations
What’s the best way to explain the burden of red tape? I’ve periodically share aggregate cost estimates of regulation. And I sometimes highlight how red tapes causes sectoral damage. I even came up with a new word for describing red tape. For some columns, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 28, 2026 | Blogs, Economics
Back in 2024, J.D. Vance picked a fight with Frederic Bastiat. He lost, unsurprisingly. What Vance did not understand (or pretended not to understand) is that government intervention has “unseen” effects that are almost always negative. Today, let’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 26, 2026 | Blogs, Regulations, States
I’ve written nearly 8,000 columns over the past 16 years and one of the most popular (6th-highest number of views) was a 2011 satirical piece about how California and Texas politicians would deal with a vicious coyote. If you don’t want to bother reading that column,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 10, 2026 | Blogs, Regulations
No, today’s column is not about Trump’s inane protectionism, which is definitely an example of economic illiteracy. It’s about another area where Trump is copying Joe Biden, channeling Elizabeth Warren, mind-melding with AOC, and acting...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 29, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
Way back in 2009, I cited a very good article in The American Spectator in hopes of getting people to understand that the United States does not have a capitalist health care system (and I’ve...
