by Dan Mitchell | Jun 26, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a Paris-based international bureaucracy that originally was created to engage in benign activities such as gathering statistics about member nations. It still does some of that, but it also has...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
By providing bailouts to profligate governments, the International Monetary Fund creates “moral hazard” and thus does considerable damage to the global economy. To make matters worse, the IMF pressures those profligate...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 4, 2023 | Blogs, Taxation
What’s the best way of helping poor countries achieve faster growth so they can converge with rich nations? Sensible people respond with a range of good answers. Removing trade barriers.Lowering corruption.Improved rule of...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
Nearly 13 years ago, I narrated this video about the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based international bureaucracy that uses American tax dollars to advocate for bigger government and higher taxes. Everything I said in that video is...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 6, 2023 | Blogs, Europe
If globalism means free trade and peaceful interaction among peoples, sign me up. I’m a big supporter. But if globalism means international bureaucracies working to increase the power of governments (i.e., dirigiste forms of global governance), then I’m...
