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, …
Biden signals pivot back to China with controversial National Security Council pick
By Robert Romano President Joe Biden is signaling a pivot back to China with his most recent choice to sit on …
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 …
Undeniable Mathematical Evidence the Election is Being Stolen
This is taken from the website The Red Elephants. They have run the numbers and eluded that it is statistically …
ECONOMY: President Joe Biden Will Be Bad, but a President Kamala Harris Would Be Worse
by Dan Mitchell, with permission. Original here. Joe Biden has a very misguided economic agenda. I’m especially disturbed by his class-warfare tax agenda, …
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 …
Ranking Economic Liberty in America States, Canadian Provinces, and Mexican States
How does your state stack up? My favorite publication from the Canada-based Fraser Institute is Economic Freedom of the World, which ranks …
Measuring the Impact of 20 Years of Socialism in Venezuela
by Dan Mitchell Fifty years ago, Venezuela was ranked #10 for economic liberty and enjoyed the highest living standards in Latin America Today, …
The federal government hoards so much land it doesn’t even know how much it has
It is well-known that the federal government has a spending problem, but it is less well-known that the government also …
Communism Humor
by Dan Mitchell Time to augment our growing collection of satire about the twin horrors of socialism and communism. Today, we’ll concentrate on …