by Dan Mitchell | Jul 16, 2026 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Four days ago, I shared OECD data on demographic trends in developed nations and wrote about how those trends have led to some changes for government old-age retirement systems (though, sadly, not to reforms of America’s underwater Social Security...
by Dan Mitchell | May 10, 2026 | Blogs, Flat Tax, Government Spending, Taxation
Sixteen years ago, I wrote a celebratory column because Romanian lawmakers opted to keep their flat tax, notwithstanding pressure from international bureaucracies. Unfortunately, something bad has occurred since that time. Here’s a chart, based on the...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 27, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
As part of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity’s Latin American Liberty project. I’m spending most of the winter south of the border. I’ve been teaching economics at Universidad de la Libertad in Mexico City (one more week of classes remaining for my lucky – or...
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...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 15, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I’m not a fan of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The Paris-based bureaucracy is dominated by Europe’s left-leaning welfare states, so it unsurprisingly has a statist policy agenda (especially on fiscal...
