by Dan Mitchell | Aug 11, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
Every so often, I mock the New York Times for biased or sloppy analysis. Claiming Medicaid cuts in a piece that shows rising outlays for the program. Asserting that government schools are “starved of funding” when taxpayer subsidies actually have skyrocketed. Claiming...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2016 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Economics
I don’t know whether it’s because I’m dedicated or masochistic, but I woke up at 3:00 AM in Serbia to live-tweet the Democratic presidential debate. In retrospect, staying in bed would have been a better choice. This debate was basically the same as the others, with...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 22, 2016 | Blogs, Economics
Folks on the left tell us that they want to help the less fortunate. I sometimes wonder if their real motive is to penalize success and punish the “rich,” but let’s be charitable and assume that many of them truly wish to help the poor. That’s a noble sentiment, to be...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 11, 2016 | Blogs, Economics
The quality of economic analysis from politicians is never good, but it becomes even worse during election season. The class-warfare rhetoric being spewed by Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton is profoundly anti-empirical. Our leftist friends genuinely seem to think...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 29, 2015 | Blogs, Economics
In conversations with statists, I’ve learned that many of them actually believe the economy is a fixed pie. This misconception leads them to think that rich people get rich only by somehow making others poor. In this simplistic worldview, a bigger slice for one person...
