by Dan Mitchell | Jun 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
One of the many challenges of being libertarian is that people sometimes think you’re naive about foreign policy (sort of like the first entry in this 24-part satirical collage of libertarians). In large part, I think that’s because they confuse non-interventionism...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 17, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
If Obamacare is a success, as the White House and establishment media would like us to believe, then why is the Obama Administration so anxious to hide the numbers? After all, surely we haven’t set the bar so low that the Administration can claim victory simply...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 9, 2014 | Economics, Society
President Obama and many other leftist politicians are running around the nation claiming that supposedly greedy employers are deliberately choosing to reduce their profits. They’re not actually making that specific claim, but that’s what they’re asserting, for all...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 6, 2014 | Blogs, Health Care
I’ve observed, reported, mocked, written, and explained that Obamacare is a cluster-you-know-what. So I’m rather bemused and frustrated by the latest pro-Obamacare spin that the law is a “success” because there are now 7 million people who have picked a plan....
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
I spoke yesterday to the Memphis Economics Club about America’s looming fiscal crisis, and I did my usual song-and-dance routine about potential Greek-style chaos in the absence of genuine entitlement reform. But I confess I was stumped when, after the speech, someone...
