by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2018 | Blogs, Free Market
The good news is that Donald Trump is not imitating all of Herbert Hoover’s statist policies. The bad news, as I explain in this interview, is that his protectionist mistakes could trigger a repeat of Hoover’s beggar-thy-neighbor protectionism that wreaked havoc in...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 4, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
I explained last month that the World Trade Organization’s dispute-resolution mechanism is the best way of discouraging China from short-sighted mercantilist and cronyist trade policies. The Trump Administration, though, thinks that the best response to bad Chinese...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 21, 2018 | Blogs, Free Market
At the risk of stating the obvious, I’m not a fan of international bureaucracies. The International Monetary Fund and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are the worst multilateral institutions because of their promotion of bad policy, but I’ve...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 19, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
I’ve been very critical of Trump’s protectionism. I explained why he was wrong before the 2016 election and I’ve continued to argue he is misguided ever since he became President. Most recently, I even expressed hope that Congress would overturn his new taxes on...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 13, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
The biggest challenge, when I talk to politicians about the free-market agenda, is convincing them that they should restrain the growth of government. To be more specific, I think they often understand and accept the argument that ever-rising fiscal burdens are bad...
