by Dan Mitchell | Oct 7, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs
Remember the scene in Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail, when the Knights of the Round Table have to answer three questions before they can cross the Bridge of Death? Sir Galahad is cast into the Gorge of Eternal Peril because he changes his mind when...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 25, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Like many Americans, I’m suffering from Obamacare fatigue. Before the law was implemented, I repeatedly explained that more spending and more intervention in the health sector would worsen a system that already was suffering from too much government. And since the...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 1, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
The libertarian message of limited government generally is not warmly received in Washington because politicians, bureaucrats, cronyists, lobbyists, contractors, and other insiders profit from the status quo. The D.C. area is now the richest region of the country,...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 21, 2015 | Blogs, Europe
Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s pseudo-socialist senator, thinks that America can learn from Europe. He’s right. But he’s also wrong. That’s because he thinks that Europe is a role model to emulate rather than a warning signal of mistakes to avoid. Needless to say, that’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 10, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Education
Over the past few years, Hillary Clinton has taken advantage of several opportunities to demonstrate that she doesn’t understand economics. Though that’s not a problem. I have friends who routinely demonstrate their economic ignorance by saying things that don’t make...