by Dan Mitchell | Feb 5, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
In an amazing display of incompetence, we still don’t know whether Bernie Sanders or Pete Buttigieg won the Iowa caucus. This has created some opportunities for satire, with people asking how a political party that can’t properly count 200,000 votes somehow can...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 2, 2020 | Blogs, Taxation
One of the most significant developments in 2020 politics is how Democratic presidential candidates have embraced hard-left economic policies. Prominent analysts on the left have noted that even Joe Biden, ostensibly the most moderate of the candidates, has a very...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 18, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
I started fretting about the socialist tendencies of young people early last decade. And when Sanders attracted a lot of youth support in 2016, I gave the issue even more attention, and I’ve since continued to investigate why so many young people are sympathetic to...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 20, 2019 | Blogs, Economics
When I was in London last week for Boris Johnson’s landslide victory, many people asked me whether Trump would win again in 2020. Since I was wrong about 2016, I told them I wasn’t the right person to ask. That being said, Trump has some positive economic tailwinds....
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 18, 2019 | Blogs, Economics
There’s an entire field of economics called “public choice” that analyzes the (largely perverse) incentive structures of politicians and bureaucrats. But is economic analysis also helpful to understand voting and elections? In the past, I’ve suggested that political...
