A Parting Insult to American Households from Joe Biden

by Dan Mitchell | Jan 8, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations

Environmental zealots and meddling politicians are undermining our quality of life. They have given us substandard toilets They have saddled us with inadequate washing machines They have forced us to use dribbling showers They have endangered us with dysfunctional gas...

Healthcare, Government, and Insurance Companies

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 16, 2024 | Blogs, Health Care

There are a couple of CF&P videos (here and here) explaining how government intervention has messed up America’s healthcare system. And I gave a speech a few years ago that echoes those findings. Now here’s a video making similar points from Professor John...

Assessing Javier Milei, the World’s Best Leader: Part V

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 1, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations

Here’s what I’ve written so far as part of my multi-part series on Argentina’s libertarian president. In Part 1 of this series, I showed how Javier Milei has done a great job shrinking the burden of government spending. In Part II, I investigated how much he...

A Second Edition of Trump: Will He Join with the Radical Left to Impose Price Controls?

by Dan Mitchell | Nov 24, 2024 | Blogs, Economics

Earlier this year, I shared this video about the foolishness of price controls on credit card interest rates. I’m recycling this video because we have a potentially very unfortunate example of bipartisanship developing in Washington. Some very left-wing Democratic...

Government Intervention and (Convincing People about) the Unintended Consequences of Good Intentions

by Dan Mitchell | Nov 23, 2024 | Blogs, Economics

I have opined many times about the folly of minimum wage laws. Today, starting with this great video from Reason, let’s look at the narrower topic of wages for restaurant workers. The obvious takeaway is that government intervention has backfired. A second takeaway is...