by Dan Mitchell | Jun 13, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Competition, Health Care
There’s an article in the Wall Street Journal showing how already-established companies and their union allies will use the coercive power of government to thwart competition. The article specifically discusses efforts by less competitive supermarkets to block...
by Dan Mitchell | May 19, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Uncategorized
I”m not even sure what to say about this story about new legislation being proposed that would have the federal government track the “Body Mass Index” of American children and spend lots of money and impose lots of rules to reduce childhood obesity....
by Dan Mitchell | May 3, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Uncategorized
One bonus of speaking at the Global Financial Services Centres Conference in Dublin last week is that I got to listen to Paul Atkins, a former Commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Unlike many others who have served in that role, Paul understands...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 6, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
No, that’s not the name of a new TV series. We should be so lucky. Instead, it’s a good description of the government’s approach to tobacco. Instead of letting adults make up their own minds about costs and benefits of risky choices (which includes...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 23, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
This column by Tim Carney in the Washington Examiner should make every honest person nauseous. It explains how the big pharmaceutical companies are Obama’s biggest allies. This is well know inside the beltway, but average Americans don’t understand that...
