by Dan Mitchell | Jan 25, 2025 | Blogs, Trade
In Trump’s fourth year in the White House, back in early 2020, I wrote that the trade deficit was rising because the economy was doing well. I specifically observed in that column that “the trade deficit is increasing in large part because Trump’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 22, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs
Regular readers know I have a skeptical attitude about Donald Trump. His first term was a mix of good and bad policies and I expect a similar jumble of good and bad policies in his second term. Consider, for instance, the commonly held...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 18, 2024 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I get annoyed by the virtue-signalling leftism from the United Nations. And it irks me when the U.N. peddles dishonest analysis. And I’m also nauseated by the bureaucracy’s pervasive corruption. But, unlike...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 22, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
I used to think the world’s biggest hypocrites were the bureaucrats at international bureaucracies such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the International Monetary Fund. They jet around the world at our expense (in...
by Dan Mitchell | May 28, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
The United Kingdom has some terrible politicians (see here, here, here, here, and here). It also has some embarrassing members of the royal family. Way back in 2010, for instance, I wrote about how then-Prince Charles had an...
