The IMF: An Equal-Opportunity Purveyor of Bad Advice

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 24, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation

As a general rule, the bureaucrats at the International Monetary Fund are not awful people or fire-breathing leftists. But they are voices for the establishment. And, at the upper levels, IMF staff seem overly solicitous of the views of the big nations, which means...

IMF Recommendation for Europe: Double Down on the Approach that Caused the Sovereign Debt Crisis

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 21, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending

Many European nations face a sovereign debt crisis because of excessive spending caused by too much redistribution. The obvious – and only – solution to this crisis is to reverse the policies that caused the problem. So take a wild guess about what the International...

International Bureaucrats: Riding the Gravy Train at Taxpayer Expense

by Dan Mitchell | May 27, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs

I’ve remarked before about how I get especially upset when well-to-do people figure out ways of ripping off taxpayers. Redistribution from rich to poor is not a good idea, but it is far more offensive when the coercive power of government is used to transfer money...

Punish the French Rapist, but the Real Target Should Be the IMF

by Dan Mitchell | May 18, 2011 | Bailouts, Big Government, Blogs, Crime, Society

I certainly take second place to nobody in my utter contempt for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund. Who knew that forcing yourself (allegedly) on women could earn you a reputation as “the Great Seducer”? I guess my failure to...

Fun Times at the IMF: Rape Taxpayers, then Hotel Maids

by Dan Mitchell | May 15, 2011 | Blogs, Crime, Society

Let’s start with a giant disclaimer that the head of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is accused of forcibly sodomizing a hotel maid and we have no idea whether it’s true. There are even rumors that this is a plot hatched by Nikolas Sarkozy to cripple a potential...