by Dan Mitchell | Apr 4, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Financial Privacy, Tax Havens, Taxation
Three years ago, thieves stole a bunch of information from “offshore” service providers in the Cook Islands and British Virgin Islands. This was supposed to be a ground-breaking exposé with huge ramifications, but it turned out to be a tempest in a teapot. As I...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 4, 2016 | Latin American Liberty Project, Panamá
Here’s some of what I wrote for Caribbean News on the issue, starting with the big picture. Hace tres años, unos ladrones robaron una gran cantidad de información de proveedores de servicios «offshore» en las Islas Cook y las Islas Vírgenes...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 3, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
I used to think the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was the worst federal bureaucracy. After all, these are the pinheads who are infamous for bone-headed initiatives, such as: The EEOC making it hard for trucking companies to weed out drunk drivers. The EEOC...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 2, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
Does Donald Trump have a consistent and coherent set of economic policies? He sometimes says things indicating that he understands Washington is a cesspool of waste. But on other occasions, he seems to be singing off the same song sheet as Bernie Sanders. Which is...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 1, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
The debate over socialism shouldn’t even exist. Everywhere big government has been tried, it has failed. And we have reams of evidence that free-market economies dramatically out-perform statist economies. Yet the siren song of socialism still appeals to a subsection...
