By Deroy Murdock , a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor, a contributing editor with National Review Online, and a senior fellow with …
The Big Squeeze: Biden’s Inflation Costing Families $2.1K a year
BREAKING: Inflation was up 5.4% over last year in September – the highest rate in 13 years. Prices rose 0.4% …
Cradle to Grave Waste in Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Spending Plan
Congressional Democrats are proposing to spend an enormous amount of taxpayer dollars on what The New York Times calls “cradle to …
Dr. Rand Paul Introduces the Five Penny Plan to Balance the Federal Budget in Five Years
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced his “Five Penny Plan” federal budget resolution that will balance within five years. Dr. Paul …
Economics Humor
by Dan Mitchell I have plenty of politician humor, collectivism humor, libertarian humor, and gun control humor. I also have big-government humor and European humor. But only a …
Does Biden deserve credit for job gains?
Biden and his advisors have no idea how they got to where they are and no plan to unleash the …
Well that’s freaking embarrassing: BidenHarris $2+ Trillion ‘Jobs Plan’ Will REDUCE ⬇︎ Employment
President Biden has touted his proposed $2+ trillion in “infrastructure” spending, which also includes all sorts of unrelated partisan waste, as …
The Economics of “Labor Shortages”
by Dan Mitchell During the Obama years, I shared a cartoon strip that cleverly makes the point that some people will choose not …
Why inflation is at a 12-year high
By Peter Jacobsen FEE Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released numbers indicating that the average price level of …
This Cartoon Shows How the Minimum Wage Works
By Mark J. Perry, American Enterprise Institute. Today’s news from the White House is that President Joe Biden will continue …
Celebrating Calvin Coolidge
by Dan Mitchell In my lifetime, the only good president has been Ronald Reagan, whose policies restored America’s economy and led to the end of …
Meet the $2 million (government) bathroom
John Stossel investigates a New York City park bathroom that cost $2 million to build. Why? Rules and regulations. Government …
Why I’m More Terrified of the Democrat’s Covid Spending Bill than Covid Itself
“The Three Stooges of the Apocalypse have discovered ‘free money’ is good politics, but only in the short-term.” By Catherine Mortensen …
What the Administration is about to get horribly wrong (again)
Biden’s Misguided Keynesian “Stimulus” by Dan Mitchell We have decades of real-world experience with Keynesian economics. The results are not pretty. It didn’t work for Hoover. …
It will take years to recover the 8 million jobs still lost to Covid and state lockdowns
The latest unemployment figures from states shows that eleven states engaged in the most draconian economic shutdowns all have significantly …
New Zealand’s Path to Prosperity Began With Rejecting Democratic Socialism
For producing both material goods and personal fulfillment, freedom makes all the difference in the world. One country that proved …
6 Bleak Consequences From CBO’s Report on the $15 Minimum Wage
Rising incomes are a great thing, and it would be wonderful if all jobs paid at least $15 per hour. …
The World’s Most Economically Illiterate Statement
by Dan Mitchell Back in 2014, I shared two videos, one narrated by Prof. Don Boudreaux and the other narrated by Prof. Deirdre McCloskey, …
The Case Against Class-Warfare Tax Policy
by Dan Mitchell I’ve shared three reasons why Biden’s tax plan is misguided (the tax code is biased against rich taxpayers, the …
Media Are Still Peddling One of the Great Myths of the Great Depression
The “Hoover did nothing and FDR saved us” fairy tale is the myth that refuses to die. Former Defense Secretary …
The Most Economically Free State Is…
by Dan Mitchell and reproduced with permission According to the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of North America, the most economically free jurisdiction …
Top 20% Gets 6x More Benefits from Student Debt Cancellation than Bottom 20%, New Study Finds
Student debt forgiveness would overwhelmingly benefit the most well off in America, new economic research shows. From Sen. Elizabeth Warren …
America Still Needs Reaganism
by Dan Mitchell I’m skeptical of “common-good capitalism” in the same way I’m suspicious about “nationalist conservatism” and “reform conservatism” (and …
Did China create the pandemic as a giant PsyOp? Does this Deep Dive into the online record reveal EVERYTHING?
This is a fascinating Twitter “thread”. I hope you can read it. The @nytimes article by @paulmozur is a smoking gun on the beginning …
Growth after World War II – Why the Keynesians were so very wrong
By Dan Mitchell Last week, I shared some data showing how the economy enjoyed a strong recovery from recession in the early 1920s …
Ranking Presidents: Was Woodrow Wilson the Worst of the Worst?
by Dan Mitchell I certainly don’t intend to do this for everyone who has made it to the White House, but …
In One Picture, Everything You Need to Know about Government
by Dan Mitchell Having written more than 5000 columns over the past ten-plus years, I’ve learned that policy analysis doesn’t “go viral.” But …
FDR’s New Deal made the Great Depression Worse Not Better
by Dan Mitchell In an interview with an economic organization from India last month, I discussed many of the economic issues associated with …
Environmentalists Don’t Want a Clean Economy – They Want a Communist Economy
An old joke is – environmentalists are watermelons: Green on the outside – red on the inside. Red – as …
Margaret Thatcher on Socialism: 20 of Her Best Quotes
This autumn will mark 30 years since Margaret Thatcher departed 10 Downing Street as the first woman and longest-serving British Prime Minister …