by Dan Mitchell | Dec 9, 2025 | Blogs, Trade
Back in 2018, I wrote about Trump’s foolish protectionism backfiring against American farmers. But rather than reverse the mistake of higher taxes on trade, Trump decided to take more money from taxpayers and give it to farmers. This was a tragic...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 25, 2025 | Blogs, Europe
To highlight preposterous examples of waste and malfeasance, I have three ongoing series: Great moments in state government Great moments in local government Great moments in foreign government Today, I have to create a new category. Because we’re going to cite an...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 21, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Regulations
Earlier this month, I shared some research about the economic cost of ambiguous laws, which I called clutter. Today’s column will do something similar, except the term used will be “anti-competitive market distortions.” Here’s a visual from a new...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 15, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
I urged Tea Party Republicans to defund PBS and NPR in 2011 and then made the same recommendation to Trump in the first year of his first term. My argument, as captured by this cartoon, has nothing to do with left-wing bias. Instead, I favor...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 29, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
Let’s return to our analysis of 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 might be able to improve Argentina’s ranking...
