by Dan Mitchell | Jul 16, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Even though it did not do much to slow the growth of federal spending in fiscal year 2026 and beyond, I was glad to see Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill get enacted. If nothing else, it saved the country from a big, automatic tax increase next year....
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 8, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
I have a special page called Poverty Hucksters, which features people or institutions (such as the Obama Administration, Steven Greenhouse, and the United Nations) that have deliberately lied about poverty. No person has ever been featured more...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 6, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Here are three options when contemplating Germany’s biggest economic challenge. Is it the growing burden of government, which likely will worsen over time because of demographic factors? Is it extreme environmental policies that have spiked energy costs and undermined...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 22, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs
Regular readers know I have a skeptical attitude about Donald Trump. His first term was a mix of good and bad policies and I expect a similar jumble of good and bad policies in his second term. Consider, for instance, the commonly held...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 1, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
I sometimes make the theoretical case against socialism. Usually, this means exposing the flaws of the core components of the socialist ideology. Government ownership of the means of production is a recipe for resource misallocation. Central planning has a...
