by Dan Mitchell | Dec 1, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
Here’s what I’ve written so far as part of my multi-part series on Argentina’s libertarian president. In Part 1 of this series, I showed how Javier Milei has done a great job shrinking the burden of government spending. In Part II, I investigated how much he...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 14, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
So far in this series, we have looked at what a second Trump presidency might mean for the following three issues. The number of government bureaucrats. Controlling the burden of federal spending. The Department of Government Efficiency. Today, let’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 9, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations, States
When I write about regulation, it’s usually to highlight how red tape is causing bad outcomes in specific sectors (banking, child care, dentistry, credit cards, the Internet, etc). But I’m a big fan of jurisdictional...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 29, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
Regulations can be theoretically justified. Proponents simply need to show that expected benefits will be greater than likely costs. That’s the good news. The bad news is that very few examples of red tape pass this simple test. The net result is that we...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 28, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
I’ve repeatedly explained that government red tape generally fails a cost-benefit test. Today, we’re going to look at a practical example. Four economists (Anna Claire Flowers, Vincent J. Geloso, Clara E. Piano, and Lyman R. Stone)...
