by Dan Mitchell | Sep 26, 2023 | Blogs, Economics
There was a lot of bad policy during the pandemic, with the health bureaucracies (the CDC and FDA) being especially incompetent. But we also got lots of policy mistakes from elected officials, including trillions of dollars of fraud-riddled...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 31, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, States
In Part I or our series comparing red states and blue states, we found that the former enjoyed better overall economic performance. In Part II, we discovered that red states did much better with regards to unemployment. But the unemployment rate does...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 28, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
I periodically use a “most depressing” theme when writing about charts or tweets with grim data. I’ve done that with regional data and also looked at depressing data from specific countries. Today, we’re going to look at some “most depressing”...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 21, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
When writing about employment and jobs, I often try to remind people about a handful of important observations. A nation’s economic output is determined in part by the number of people gainfully employed.The share of working-age people with...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
Over the past few months, I’ve written a 7-part series on Bidenomics, reviewing the president’s record on issues such as subsidies, inflation, protectionism, household income, fiscal policy, red tape, and employment. Regarding the last item, a big problem is...
