by Dan Mitchell | Aug 16, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs
When I talked to CNBC on Wednesday, I was very critical of Trump and other Republicans for promoting protectionism, Keynesian monetary policy, and wasteful spending. Yes, I give Trump and the GOP credit for improvements in regulatory policy and tax policy. And I used...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 15, 2019 | Blogs
I wrote yesterday about the debate among leftists, which is partly a contest between Bernie Sanders-style socialists and Elizabeth Warren-style corporatists. Now let’s look at the debate on the right. There’s an ongoing argument over what it means to be conservative,...
by Brian Garst | May 24, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
The Democrat’s Green New Deal proposal is, in a word, bonkers. Dan Mitchell provided a look at the implications here. The short version is that it is an all-out assault on the free enterprise system that would be terrible for the economy, our pocketbooks, and...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 7, 2018 | Blogs, Uncategorized
We had an election yesterday in the United States (or, as Mencken sagely observed, an advance auction of stolen goods). Here are five things to keep in mind about the results. First, the GOP did better than most people (including me) expected. This tweet captures the...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 7, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
My major long-run project during Obama’s presidency was to educate Republicans in Washington about the need for genuine entitlement reform. I explained to them that the United States was doomed, largely because of demographics, to suffer a Greek-style fiscal future if...
