by Dan Mitchell | Apr 21, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
In 2020, I crunched numbers from OMB’s Historical Tables to rank the fiscal performance of nine recent presidents, going all the way back to LBJ. I was especially interested to see which presidents did best and worst when looking on overall...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 23, 2024 | Blogs
Even though Trumpies and establishment Republicans don’t like each other, they both have the same reaction when I share my right-of-center Venn Diagram. They say that the American people would not support a modern-day version of Ronald Reagan. They either...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 31, 2024 | Blogs
As an economist, I’m very tempted to say that Ronald Reagan‘s greatest achievement was America’s economic rejuvenation. He had a very impressive list of accomplishments, including lower tax rates, spending restraint, and getting inflation...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 15, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Earlier this month, I explained that Ronald Reagan deserves praise for shrinking the burden of government spending. Today, starting with this video, let’s add Bill Clinton to the mix and look at how America wound up with budget surpluses in the late 1990s....
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 6, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
I wrote two months ago that President Ronald Reagan did a good job with regards to government spending. I echoed that sentiment in this recent interview. I’ve tried to show Reagan’s success with various charts (see here, here, here, and here)....
