by Dan Mitchell | Aug 17, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
When Crazy Bernie became a national political phenomenon back in 2015, I pointed out that the Vermont Senator isn’t actually a socialist. As I remarked in this brief interview with Melissa Francis, the technical definition of socialism involves government ownership...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 24, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
I’m in China this week, giving various lectures at Northeastern University in Shenyang. My topic today was “Real-World Examples,” which gave me an opportunity to share many of the charts I’ve developed showing how market-oriented nations enjoy much more long-run...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 8, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
Last month, we summarized libertarianism in five images. In the interest of fairness, now let’s give equal time to the other side. After all, statists deserve an opportunity to present their case. And we’ll start with this image, which makes the same point about...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 3, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
In 2016, I posed a rhetorical question about whether young people are so stupid that they shouldn’t be allowed to vote. After all, many of them thought Bernie Sanders would make a good president (of America, not Greece or Venezuela). Well, maybe we really should...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 17, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
I’m a big believer that some images do a great job of capturing an issue. The essential insight of supply-side economics. The Washington welfare morass. America’s inescapable demographic challenge. The ever-more-confusing tax code. How the swamp beat Trump on the...
