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...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 27, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
Because of their aggressive support for bigger government, my least-favorite international bureaucracies are the International Monetary Fund and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. But I’m increasingly displeased by the European Bank for...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 19, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
The worst-international-bureaucracy contest is heating up. In recent years, the prize has belonged to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development for reasons outlined in this interview. Indeed, I’ve even argued that subsidies for the OECD are...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 26, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
I expressed approval when Trump proposed to reduce U.S. funding for international bureaucracies, mostly because of my disdain for the statist policy agenda of the International Monetary Fund and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Sadly, there’s has...
