by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
Way back in early 2017, I warned in an interview that Trump would be a big spender (sadly, I was right). But I wasn’t being reflexively anti-Trump. Here’s a clip from that same program where I speculated that Trump might have the political skill to win support from...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2011 | Blogs, Taxation
To be blunt, I’m not a big fan of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. But my animosity isn’t because OECD bureaucrats threatened to have me arrested and thrown in a Mexican jail. Instead, I don’t like the Paris-based bureaucracy because it...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2011 | Blogs, Free Market
School choice doesn’t automatically mean every child will be an educational success, but evidence from other nations certainly suggests it means better overall performance. Sweden, Chile, and the Netherlands are just some of the countries that have seen good results...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 5, 2011 | Blogs, Economics
Labor Day is a good opportunity to consider whether unions help or hurt ordinary workers in America. The answer is yes and no, depending on circumstances, but that’s actually the wrong question. The real issue, at least from a public policy perspective, is whether...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 2, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Minimum Wage
My Cato colleague, Mark Calabria, recently explained how the minimum wage destroys jobs, and I’ve written on several occasions why government-mandated wages can create unemployment by making it unprofitable to hire people with low work skills and/or poor work...
