by Dan Mitchell | Apr 29, 2011 | Blogs, Economics
Both President Reagan and President Obama had to deal with serious economic dislocation upon taking office. But they used radically different approaches to deal with the problems they inherited. Reagan sought to reduce the burden of government, whereas Obama viewed...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 19, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
After reading below about Argentina’s decline, several people have emailed to ask how Chile compares. Ask and ye shall receive. This post from last month shows shows Chile, Argentina, and Venezuela. Very powerful, which is why I gave the post such a grandiose title....
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 12, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
Having just done a blog post where I explained that government should stay neutral in fights between labor and management in the private sector, let’s look at a real-world example to understand why. The millionaire owners and millionaire players from the National...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste, Privacy
Dana Milbank is a snarky leftist who writes for the Washington Post, but I have to give him credit for an amusing column today about the new big-brother diet guidelines from our incompetent federal government. Here are a few excerpts. In the late 1970s, before the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 20, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
The President garnered some attention for his January 18 column in the Wall Street Journal, in which he said we need to control the regulatory burden. Let’s start with the insincere part. He praised capitalism. America’s free market has not only been the source of...
