Trump Pulls Out of 66 International Bureaucracies, Which is a Positive Development, but Why Remain in the Worst Ones?

by Dan Mitchell | Jan 8, 2026 | Blogs

I’ve been very critical of the world’s three biggest international bureaucracies. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development The International Monetary Fund The United Nations I’m not against international cooperation, per se. It’s simply a...

IMF Bureaucrats (Who Get Tax-Free Salaries) Recommend Big Tax Increases for Bulgaria

by Dan Mitchell | Nov 27, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Flat Tax, Government Spending, Taxation

I normally have a Thanksgiving-themed column every year (2024, 2023, 2022, etc, etc), but I just saw something so irritating from the pro-tax crowd at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that I’m going to break with tradition....

Fiscal Rules Focused on Debt Don’t Necessarily Produce Good Outcomes

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 11, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation

Given my concern about the negative effects of excessive government spending, as well as my concerns about the consequences of ever-growing government (higher taxes, higher debt, inflation), I’m always very interested to learn about the...

Bulgaria and the 20th Theorem of Government

by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation

My 20th Theorem of Government is based on the very simple – but empirically rigorous – premise that the key fiscal variable is spending growth. If government is restrained, there are inevitably good outcomes. If government grows rapidly,...

The IMF’s Fairy-Dust Economic Policy

by Dan Mitchell | Nov 15, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs

I was going to continue my Second-Edition-of-Trump series (see here, here, here, and here) by writing about what to expect with regards to trade (pessimistic) and then taxes (optimistic). But I’m shifting gears today because the bureaucrats at the...