New IMF Study Shows U.S. Would Benefit from Lower Tax Rates and Less Government Spending

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2018 | Blogs, Economics

I’m not a fan of international bureaucracies, but they’re not universally bad. Yes, we almost always get a bad policy agenda from the left-leaning political appointees who run these organizations. But it’s also true that the professional economists at these...

The International Monetary Fund Doubles Down on a Pro-Tax Agenda

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...

The IMF’s Recipe for Equal Levels of Decline and Stagnation

by Dan Mitchell | Nov 15, 2017 | Uncategorized

Inequality is now a major dividing line in the world of public policy. Supporters of limited government think it’s not a big issue and instead focus on the policies that are most likely to generate growth. Simply stated, they tend not to care if some people get richer...

The International Monetary Fund’s Recipe for Continued Poverty in the Developing World

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 22, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation

The cossetted bureaucrats at the International Monetary Fund are on a roll. In the past few months, they’ve published reports pushing a very misguided and statist agenda. In June, I wrote about the IMF pushing a theory that higher taxes would improve growth in the...

The IMF’s Creative New Rationale for Higher Tax Rates

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 14, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation

I’m not a fan of the International Monetary Fund. Like many other international bureaucracies, it pushes a statist agenda. The IMF’s support for bad policy gets me so agitated that I’ve sometimes referred to it as the “dumpster fire” or “Dr. Kevorkian” of the global...