by Dan Mitchell | Nov 7, 2018 | Blogs, Uncategorized
We had an election yesterday in the United States (or, as Mencken sagely observed, an advance auction of stolen goods). Here are five things to keep in mind about the results. First, the GOP did better than most people (including me) expected. This tweet captures the...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 3, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
The mid-term elections take place on Tuesday and the crowd in DC is focused on who will control the House and Senate. I’ll make my (sometimes dubious, sometimes accurate) congressional predictions next week. The goal today is to call attention to the key initiatives...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 29, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
Move over, Crazy Bernie, you’re no longer the left’s heartthrob. You’ve been replaced by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an out-of-the-closet socialist from New York City who will enter Congress next January after beating a member of the Democratic leadership. Referring to...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 3, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
In 2016, I posed a rhetorical question about whether young people are so stupid that they shouldn’t be allowed to vote. After all, many of them thought Bernie Sanders would make a good president (of America, not Greece or Venezuela). Well, maybe we really should...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 20, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
I gave Trump 50-day grades and 100-day grades, but those were largely speculative assessments. Now we have a full year of data and that real-world evidence can be used to grade Trump’s first year in office. But before I get into the details, allow me to start with a...
