by Dan Mitchell | Aug 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
National Review captures a key difference between Reagan and Obama, writing that Reagan was willing to incur short-run political pain to make America healthier and stronger. Obama, by contrast, has pursued the free-lunch Keynesian approach. Only time will tell...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 21, 2010 | Blogs, Taxation
A reader has asked me to weigh in on the mini-controversy that was triggered when a Wall Street financier said fighting Obama’s tax hikes was like a war and that the battle was “like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.” While it seems clear that Stephen Schwarzman was...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 19, 2010 | Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Here’s my debate on Larry Kudlow’s show about Social Security personal retirement accounts.
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 14, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I don’t agree with all the points in this column from Real Clear Markets, but I fully agree with the overall theme that the GOP would be wise to cut Bush out of the Party’s history. Like Nixon, he was a failed, big-government statist. The sour economy is presenting...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 22, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Government Spending
In a column in today’s New York Post, I mock White House unemployment calculations and then explain why companies are not anxious to hire more workers. The White House last year released a supposedly scientific analysis that claimed to show that adopting the...
