by Darren Brady Nelson | Aug 22, 2018 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Cayman Financial Review on August 20, 2018. It was widely reported by the media around the world in mid-June that U.S. President Donald Trump had “blown up” the Group of Seven (G-7) in the wake of their annual summit held this year in Quebec...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 17, 2018 | Blogs, Europe
If you look at the top of your screen on my home page, you’ll notice that I have a collection of special pages such as the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame and examples of what happens when you mix government and sex. I’m thinking of creating a new page, but I need a pithy way...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 25, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
When writing about the statist agenda of international bureaucracies, I generally focus my attention on the International Monetary Fund and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Today, let’s give some attention to the United Nations. Based on this...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 12, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
Back in 2015, I wrote about the scandal involving former House Speaker Dennis Hastert and said we got the right result (legal trouble for Hastert) for the wrong reason (government spying on financial transactions). Something similar happened over the weekend with the...
by Dan Mitchell | May 10, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation
A couple of months ago, I thought I did something meaningful by sharing six separate examples of the International Monetary Fund pressuring sub-Saharan African nations to impose higher tax burdens. This was evidence, I suggested, that the IMF had a disturbing agenda...
