by Dan Mitchell | Aug 5, 2010 | Blogs, Taxation
If I was organized enough to send Christmas cards, I would take Richard Rahn off my list. I do one blog post to call attention to his Washington Times column and it seems like everybody in the world wants to jump down my throat. I already dismissed Paul Krugman’s rant...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 4, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Both Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama entered office during periods of economic misery. But they adopted dramatically different solutions. Reagan reduced the burden of government and Obama increased the burden of government. So which approach worked best? In his...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 24, 2010 | Blogs, Minimum Wage
Anybody with an IQ above room temperature understands that companies only hire workers when they expect to generate net revenue (i.e., the total receipts associated with a new worker are expected to be higher than the total costs). That’s why it was so reprehensible...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 22, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Government Spending
In a column in today’s New York Post, I mock White House unemployment calculations and then explain why companies are not anxious to hire more workers. The White House last year released a supposedly scientific analysis that claimed to show that adopting the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 19, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
Kudos to the New York Times for actually looking at the evidence and publishing a story exposing the costly failure of job-training programs financed by the federal government. I also couldn’t help but note that the Obama Administration is claiming that the programs...
