by Dan Mitchell | Apr 14, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Regulations
What’s the best way to explain the burden of red tape? I’ve periodically share aggregate cost estimates of regulation. And I sometimes highlight how red tapes causes sectoral damage. I even came up with a new word for describing red tape. For some columns, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 9, 2026 | Blogs, Regulations
It’s easy to identify President Trump’s worst issue. It’s trade, of course, where his protectionist views and policies are economically illiterate. It’s also easy to identify his best issue. Trump has been very good about...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 27, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Regulations
While he’s no Javier Milei, Donald Trump has done a very good job with regards to the burden of red tape. Let’s start Part II of this series (click here for Part I) by looking at a chart that shows periods of deregulation in the United States. As you can see,...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 18, 2026 | Blogs, Regulations
Part I of this series reviewed the horrible economic conditions that plagued Argentina when Javier Milei took office. Part II looked at Milei’s spending restraint and some of the subsequent improvements in fiscal outcomes. For today’s column, let’s focus on what Milei...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 26, 2026 | Blogs, Regulations, States
I’ve written nearly 8,000 columns over the past 16 years and one of the most popular (6th-highest number of views) was a 2011 satirical piece about how California and Texas politicians would deal with a vicious coyote. If you don’t want to bother reading that column,...
