by Dan Mitchell | Apr 14, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Regulations
What’s the best way to explain the burden of red tape? I’ve periodically share aggregate cost estimates of regulation. And I sometimes highlight how red tapes causes sectoral damage. I even came up with a new word for describing red tape. For some columns, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 14, 2026 | Blogs, Monetary Policy
I have three-video primers on price gouging and public choice, so I may as well do the same thing for the 2008 financial crisis (click here for Part I). We’ll start with a video from Peter Wallison, which correctly notes how housing subsidies...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 30, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
The death tax presumably is the most destructive tax on a per-dollar-collected basis, but I suspect the capital gains tax is in second place. Like the death tax, the capital gains tax is pure double taxation, thus exacerbating the tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 23, 2025 | Blogs, Capital Gains, Economics, Supply Side, Taxation
From a big-picture economic perspective, I worry most about the damage of high tax burdens on innovation, entrepreneurship, and investment. Those are things that generate enormous benefits for society, yet also things that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
I commonly use “everything you need to know” when sharing a story that summarizes the buffoonery of a government (either international, national, regional, or local). I even occasionally claim that a story (see here, here, and here)...
