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...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 5, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a Paris-based international bureaucracy that is infamous for its efforts to hinder tax competition. The bureaucrats basically want to export the anti-competitive...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 25, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Hong Kong used to be a role model for good economic policy, but China’s crackdown has had a negative effect, so Singapore is now considered the jurisdiction with the most economic freedom. But I also like to cite Taiwan, which is a top-20...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 8, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
I have a special page called Poverty Hucksters, which features people or institutions (such as the Obama Administration, Steven Greenhouse, and the United Nations) that have deliberately lied about poverty. No person has ever been featured more...
