by Dan Mitchell | Jan 19, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
George Santayana was certainly was right when he wrote, “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Consider, for instance, the foolish American politicians who want to rejuvenate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and other forms of housing subsidies even...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 26, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
Since the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame is getting crowded, I’ve decided we need a system to limit new entrants. So today we’re doing an experiment. We’ll look at two separate stories about lazy and overpaid bureaucrats, and the comments section (vote here) will determine...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 14, 2015 | Blogs
What’s the best country in the world? My emotional response is that the United States belongs in the top spot. But a more dispassionate analysis suggests that Switzerland is more deservingof the honor. It has the 4th-freest economy according to the most recent...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 28, 2015 | Blogs, Europe
If you want to pinpoint the leading source of bad economic policy proposals, I would understand if someone suggested the Obama Administration. But looking to Europe might be even more accurate. For instance, I’d be hard pressed to identify a policy more misguided than...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 27, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
The world is a laboratory, with lots of experiments to see if a nation can prosper with big government and pervasive intervention. The results are not encouraging. I’ve written about France being a basket case, over and over again. And I am equally pessimistic...
