by Dan Mitchell | Feb 18, 2022 | Blogs, Crime, Society, Taxation
My friends sometimes tell me that libertarians are too extreme because we tend to make “slippery slope” arguments against government expansions. I respond by pointing out that many slopes are very slippery. Especially when dealing with politicians and...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
Every few years (2012, 2015, 2019), I warn that easy-money policies by the Federal Reserve are misguided. But not just because such policies eventually can lead to price inflation, which now has become a problem in the United States. Bad monetary policy also...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 26, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
In the libertarian fantasy world, we would have competing private currencies. In the real world, we have a government central bank. And central banks have a track record of bad monetary policy, so here’s my two cents on how people can try to protect their...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 3, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
In an interview with Fox Business last week, I touched on three policies (easy money from the Fed, Biden’s class-warfare tax agenda, and the ever-increasing burden of federal spending) that create risks for the economy in 2021. I didn’t have a chance to elaborate in...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 13, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
I’m not a fan of the European Union, which has morphed from something good (a free-trade pact) to something bad (a pro-centralization, wannabe United States of Europe that exacerbates the continent’s tax-and-spend mentality). Indeed, that’s why I’m a huge fan of...
