The Expensive Quicksand of Red Tape

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 20, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations

I’ve shared Kite & Key videos about Social Security, comparative economics, free trade, the national debt, patriotism, and free markets. Here’s their video on the under-appreciated problem of permitting and red tape. This video is...

The United States vs. Europe

by Dan Mitchell | Feb 5, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Regulations, Welfare and Entitlements

So far this decade, I’ve written at least nine columns (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) showing that the United States is out-performing Europe. Since I endlessly complain about bad policy in...

A Second Edition of Trump: Three Hopes, Three Fears

by Dan Mitchell | Jan 20, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Regulations

Yesterday, I celebrated Biden’s exit from Washington. We have 50-plus years of evidence showing he is a corrupt, big-government mediocrity. Good riddance. But Biden being bad does not imply Trump being good. Instead, he’s an incoherent mix. Some of his...

A Parting Insult to American Households from Joe Biden

by Dan Mitchell | Jan 8, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations

Environmental zealots and meddling politicians are undermining our quality of life. They have given us substandard toilets They have saddled us with inadequate washing machines They have forced us to use dribbling showers They have endangered us with dysfunctional gas...

Ranking Jimmy Carter: Perhaps a Good Man, But Not a Good President

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 30, 2024 | Blogs

I’ve graded the economic policy of every recent president, as well as three very bad presidents from the first half of the 20th century. Woodrow Wilson Herbert Hoover Franklin Roosevelt Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan George H.W. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Bush Barack...