by Dan Mitchell | Feb 17, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
Bureaucrats must have a knee-jerk desire to make citizens miserable. That’s the most logical explanation for their various initiatives to lower our quality of life. Inferior light bulbs Substandard toilets Inadequate washing machines Dribbling showers...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 12, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
There are plenty of problems, but this image reminds me that there are not necessarily government solutions. Indeed, it is quite likely that government created the problems in the first place and that additional government intervention...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 9, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
I wrote three columns about occupational licensing in 2017 (here, here, and here), but have since neglected the issue. It’s time to revisit the issue, and we’ll start with this John Stossel video. One of the reasons I’m writing about the issue is that the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 17, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
The great French economist from the 1800s, Frederic Bastiat, famously explained that good economists are aware that government policies have indirect effects (the “unseen”). Bad economists, by contrast, only consider direct effects (the...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 13, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
The Food and Drug Administration has a rather dismal track record. Imposing a lengthy and expensive drug-approval process, leading to thousands of premature deaths.A bungled and incompetent response to the Covid pandemic.Its regulatory assault...
