by Dan Mitchell | Jan 1, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation, Trade
Yesterday was my review of the best and worst policy developments in 2020. Today, I’ll share my hopes and fears for 2021. These are not predictions (economists have a terrible track record when try to make forecasts). Instead, these are merely good and bad things that...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 21, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
Some policies will improve with Biden in the White House, most notably trade, but also government spending (not because Biden is good, but rather because Republicans will go back to pretending to be fiscally conservative). But some policies will move in the wrong...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 17, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
Japan is an interesting country to examine if you want insights about public policy. We can study the impact of population aging on fiscal outcomes. We can learn about the utter failure of Keynesian economics. We can understand why it’s a very bad idea to impose a...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 16, 2020 | Blogs, Taxation
In Part I of this series, I expressed some optimism that Joe Biden would not aggressively push his class-warfare tax plan, particularly since Republicans almost certainly will wind up controlling the Senate. But the main goal of that column was to explain that the...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 13, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
During the campaign, Joe Biden proposed a massive tax increase, far beyond what either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton put forth when they ran for the White House. Some people speculate that Biden isn’t actually that radical, and that his class-warfare agenda was...
