by Dan Mitchell | Nov 1, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve expressed opposition numerous times to so-called industrial policy because I don’t want politicians and bureaucrats to provide special favors to certain businesses or industries at the expense of everyone else. That’s a practice known...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 26, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
Way back in 2009, in the early days of writing this column, I shared an image that aptly summarizes the bad things that happen when politicians interfere with economic liberty. The simple message is that more government is almost always the wrong answer....
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 21, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve written several times about federally subsidized flood insurance, mostly to complain that it is terrible policy. People are encouraged to build homes in low-lying areas, which then leads to needless destruction during floods. The monetary cost...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 20, 2022 | Blogs, Energy
I don’t like big-government Republicans in the United States, so it naturally follows that I don’t like big-government Tories in the United Kingdom. Indeed, I wrote just a few days ago about the new leadership race for the Conservative...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 13, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
The central message of “Mitchell’s law” is certainly not something I concocted. Economists and other policy experts have known for a couple of hundred years that politicians have a tendency to makes mistakes and then use the resulting damage as a justification...
