by Dan Mitchell | Dec 16, 2019 | Blogs, Trade
One of my big 2018 worries was that Trump would wreck NAFTA. We dodged that bullet, but my two cents is that the new deal is underwhelming. The bottom line is that his revisions to the pact – which is now called USMCA – create some new barriers to trade. But there...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 26, 2018 | Blogs, Trade
There’s a debate in Washington about what President Trump really thinks about trade. Is he a crude protectionist or closet free trader? If we focus on actions rather than rhetoric, I fear Trump is in the anti-trade camp. That is certainly the case if we look at how...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 9, 2018 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’m sometimes accused of being too radical, though I take that as a compliment (including the time a British journalist wrote that I was “a high priest of light tax, small state libertarianism”). In reality, I’m actually a moderate. I don’t want to eliminate all...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 24, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
One of the interesting things I’ve noticed in my world travels is that supporters of free markets and small government generally are known as “liberals” everywhere other than North America. I think the rest of the world has the right idea. After all, folks like Adam...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 9, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Based on the dismal data from the Minneapolis Federal Reserve (as well as our own experiences), we know Obamanomics doesn’t work in the United States. But we also know bigger government doesn’t work in France. And we know it doesn’t work in Japan. We know it doesn’t...
