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...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 5, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a Paris-based international bureaucracy that is infamous for its efforts to hinder tax competition. The bureaucrats basically want to export the anti-competitive...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 29, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
Earlier this month, shortly after some depressing results in a regional election in Argentina, I was interviewed by Patrick Young. In this clip, I express concern Argentine voters will backslide to Peronism. As one might expect, some people are...
by Brian Garst | Sep 19, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
In both 2013 and 2024, I made the shorthand observation that spending restraint is a good default answer for any question about fiscal policy. Today, I’m going to expand upon that hypothesis by introducing by 22th Theorem of Government. Simply stated,...
