by Dan Mitchell | Feb 15, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
The Internet has made all of our lives better, in part because there’s been an accidental policy of benign neglect from Washington. But that’s about to change. Even though our economy already is burdened by record amounts of regulation and red tape, the FCC is pushing...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 10, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
I suspect that most Americans, if asked to list the biggest economic success story in the United States over the past few decades, would list high tech and the Internet. And that would be a good answer. For those of us with a good bit of gray hair, it’s sometimes...
by CF&P | Dec 30, 2014 | News, Prosperity Updates
News & Views Coalition Calls for Accurate Scoring Tired of inaccurate scoring using Keynesian and other big government assumptions, a coalition of free market think-tanks is urging Republican leadership to demand better....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 26, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
It’s time to correct a sin of omission. In five-plus years of blogging, I haven’t given nearly enough attention to the wisdom of the late (and great) Milton Friedman. Yes, I did say he was at the top of my list of great economists in a 2010 interview, and I’ve cited...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 24, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
How thoughtful. The President gave the economy a special gift before jetting off to Hawaii. The Obama administration is cramming like a college student trying to study for a final exam, publishing more than 1,200 new regulations in the last 15 days alone, according to...
