by Dan Mitchell | Feb 26, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
The United States is going to become another Greece, and it’s largely because of poorly designed entitlement programs. As the old saying goes, demography is destiny. Let’s look at just one piece of that puzzle. James Capretta of the American Enterprise Institute has a...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 22, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
One of the many frustrations of working in Washington is that politicians, when dealing with a problem created by government intervention, routinely propose that the solution is to give even more power to government. And since they are either unwilling or unable to...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 29, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
Way back in 2009, some folks on the left shared a chart showing that national expenditures on healthcare compared to life expectancy. This comparison was not favorable to the United States, which easily spent the most money but didn’t have concomitantly impressive...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 24, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Education
“So many bad ideas, so little time.” That’s my attitude about Hillary Clinton. She proposes misguided policies at such a rapid rate that I feel like I’m having to spend too much of each day trying to correct all the economic mistakes that emanate from her and her...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 3, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Education
Normally, leftists get upset if there’s a big industry that charges high prices, engages in lots of featherbedding, and manipulates the political system for handouts. But for some reason, when the industry is higher education, folks like Hillary Clinton think the...
