by Dan Mitchell | Mar 20, 2020 | Taxation
There will be many lessons that we hopefully learn from the current crisis, most notably that it’s foolish to give so much regulatory power to sloth-like bureaucracies such as the FDA and CDC. Today, I want to focus on a longer-run lesson, which is how tax policy...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 4, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Monetary Policy
The coronavirus is a genuine threat to prosperity, at least in the short run, in large part because it is causing a contraction in global trade. The silver lining to that dark cloud is that President Trump may learn that trade is actually good rather than bad. But...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 1, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Trade
Yesterday’s column was my annual end-of-year round-up of the best and worst developments of the concluding year. Today I’ll be forward looking and give you my hopes and fears for the new year, which is a newer tradition that began in 2017 (and continued...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 21, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
I’m worried. There’s a lot of talk in Washington about Trump trying to goose the economy with either Keynesian monetary policy or Keynesian fiscal policy. It would be much better, as I discuss in this interview with Yahoo Finance, if Trump instead declared a ceasefire...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 9, 2019 | Blogs
Having been exposed to scholars from the Austrian school as a graduate student, I have a knee-jerk suspicion that it’s not a good idea to rely on the Federal Reserve for macroeconomic tinkering. In this interview from yesterday, I specifically warn that easy money can...
