by Dan Mitchell | Nov 24, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
Earlier this year, I shared this video about the foolishness of price controls on credit card interest rates. I’m recycling this video because we have a potentially very unfortunate example of bipartisanship developing in Washington. Some very left-wing Democratic...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 30, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
From a big-picture economic perspective, Kamala Harris has some terrible proposals. Taxing unrealized capital gains. Gutting welfare reform with per-child handouts. Increasing the overall burden of spending. What scares me most, however, is that she might...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 20, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Let’s look today at two of the worst public policy ideas, proposals that are so economically illiterate that they get support only from very dogmatic leftists. We’ll start with the deduction for state and local taxes. Since I’m a fan of the flat tax, I don’t...
by Brian Garst | Sep 8, 2024 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by The Blaze on September 3, 2024. Kamala Harris’ grand reveal of her economic plan turned into an epic campaign flop. She faces the unenviable task of trying to distance herself from Joe Biden’s deeply unpopular presidency and its catastrophic...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 8, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I periodically explain that the world is a laboratory, filled with experiments that teach (or should teach) that we get more prosperity with free markets and limited government. Today, let’s look at the global laboratory and see what it teaches us...
