by Dan Mitchell | Apr 14, 2021 | Blogs, Health Care
I’ve written many times about the value of cost-benefit analysis for government policy. My go-to example is that a nationwide 5-mph speed limit would reduce traffic fatalities, but the resulting economic damage would be so pervasive that...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2021 | Blogs, Crime, Society
Back in 2010, I narrated this video on money laundering for the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, mostly to help people understand that governments are imposing huge costs on both industry and consumers without any offsetting benefits (such as reductions in crime).....
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 19, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
When I did my final assessment of Trump’s economic record, I gave him credit for cutting red tape in some areas, but also noted that he increased government intervention in other areas. …there were some very positive moves on regulation, but they were partly...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 8, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
While I freely self-identify as a libertarian, I don’t think of myself as a philosophical ideologue. Instead, I’m someone who likes digging into data to determine the impact of government policy. And because I’ve repeatedly noticed that more government...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 6, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Regulations
In my five-part series on coronavirus and the failure of big government (here, here, here, here, and here), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received some unflattering attention. Whether we’re examining its performance regarding equipment,...
