by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jul 19, 2017 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Cayman Financial Review on July 18, 2017. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has gradually carved for itself a central role in global tax matters over the last two decades. Today, its many initiatives impact global...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 26, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
If I was Captain Ahab in a Herman Melville novel, my Moby Dick would be the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. I have spent more than 15 years fighting that Paris-based bureaucracy. Even to the point that the OECD threatened to throw me in a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 10, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
If there was a ranking of international bureaucracies, the World Bank would be my favorite (or, to be more accurate, least unfavorite). Yes, it sometimes produces bad studies, but it also is the source of good research on topics such as government spending, Social...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Apr 27, 2017 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Cayman Financial Review on April 26, 2017. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has gradually carved for itself a central role in global tax matters over the last two decades. Today, its many initiatives impact...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
I wrote yesterday about how the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is pushing for bigger government in China. That’s a remarkable bit of economic malpractice by the Paris-based international bureaucracy, especially since China is only ranked...