by Dan Mitchell | Apr 26, 2023 | Blogs, Monetary Policy
Appearing on Vance Ginn’s Let People Prosper, I discussed spending caps, entitlement reform, past fiscal victories, and potential future defeats. For today, I want to highlight what I said about monetary policy. The above segment is less...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 26, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
In this segment from a December interview, I explain that budget deficits are most likely to produce inflation in countries with untrustworthy governments.* The simple message is that budget deficits are not necessarily inflationary. It depends how budget deficits are...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 22, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
I don’t like Joe Biden’s economic policies, though that’s hardly a surprise since I haven’t liked the policies of any president this century (I’ve referred to Bush, Obama, and Trump as the “three stooges of big government“). Other people have a more...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 2, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
While Donald Trump issued some inanely illiterate tweets to promote protectionism, Joe Biden has made a fool of himself with tweets on a wider range of issues. Jaw-dropping economic illiteracy about gas prices.Using make-believe...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 14, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
According to polling data, President Biden is not getting good grades for economic policy. Part of that is because of inflation, though I’ve repeatedly pointed out that the blame belongs with the Federal Reserve rather than Biden. And the big...
