by Dan Mitchell | Sep 8, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian
If it wasn’t for the fact that so many people are suffering and being seduced into empty lives of government dependency (symbolized by Julia, the world’s most disappointing daughter), I might feel sorry for President Obama. He promised unemployment would never climb...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 28, 2012 | Blogs, Economics
I’ve done a few comparisons of economic performance under Reagan and Obama, sometimes using the interactive data from the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. And I’ve done a few TV interviews on the same subject. But something was very different in this interview...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 18, 2012 | Blogs, Taxation
I feel like a pendulum this election season. Something will happen that makes me want to eviscerate Obama’s statist policies and I’ll write a foaming-at-the-mouth post warning that the President is turning America into Greece. But then Romney will do something odious...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 16, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
Even though I’ve already made clear that I am less-than-overwhelmed by the thought of Mitt Romney in the White House, I worry that people will become to think I’m a GOP toady. That’s because I’ve been spending a lot of time providing favorable analysis and commentary...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2012 | Bailouts, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
I’ve been against the auto bailout from the very beginning because it was a corrupt payoff to lazy corporate fat-cats and an ossified union. And when folks on the left say the bailout is a success, I explain that any industry can be propped up with a sufficiently...