by Dan Mitchell | Nov 15, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Monetary Policy
I have a column in today’s New York Post, where I pull no punches as I comment on how the rest of the world is increasingly worried about Obama’s policies of easy money and deficit spending. I note that other nations often are guilty of the same mistakes, but that’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 10, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
One of my first blog posts (and the first one to get any attention) highlighted the amusing/embarrassing irony of having Chinese students laugh at Treasury Secretary Geithner when he claimed the United States had a strong-dollar policy. I suspect that even Tim...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 7, 2010 | Blogs, Monetary Policy
Chairman Ben Bernanke has announced that the Federal Reserve will buy about $600 billion of government bonds as part of what is being called QE2 (because this is the second big stage of “quantitative easing”). This actually isn’t printing money, but it has the same...
by CF&P | Sep 20, 2010 | News, Press Releases
Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation For Immediate Release Monday, September 20, 2010 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org New CF&P “Economics 101” Video Explains Why Capital Gains Should Be Indexed to Protect Taxpayers from Inflation...