by Dan Mitchell | Apr 22, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
Since I just landed in London, it appropriate that today’s column will be based on an article in the U.K.-based Economist. A recent issue of the magazine included an article lauding the Internal Revenue Service. Why? What could the bureaucrats have done to...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 31, 2022 | Blogs, Society
I recently wrote about academic bias. Today, let’s analyze whether there is a similar problem with journalists. And we’ll start with this video from Prager U. Just as with the column on academic bias, we’ll start by looking at evidence about whether members...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 24, 2021 | Blogs, Capital Gains, Taxation
It’s presumably not controversial to point out that the Washington Post (like much of the media) leans to the left. Indeed, the paper’s bias has given me plenty of material over the years. As you can see, what really irks me is when the bias translates...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 3, 2021 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
How should Nazism be classified, particularly when compared to socialism? Are these ideologies at opposite ends of a spectrum, or are they simply different sides of the same collectivist coin? In my humble opinion, both views are correct, which is why I...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 5, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
There are two big policy debates about business profits. The first is whether profits are good or evil. I pick the former. Profits are something to applaud, assuming they are earned honestly (i.e., not the result of subsidies, industrial...
