by Dan Mitchell | Nov 29, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
At the risk of understatement, I’m not a fan of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Perhaps reflecting the mindset of the European governments that dominate its membership, the Paris-based international bureaucracy has morphed into a cheerleader...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 26, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
Earlier this year, I criticized the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development for endorsing an orgy of Keynesian spending. Did my criticism have an effect? Well, the bureaucrats in Paris just issued a new report that bluntly suggests a reorientation of...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Nov 2, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in Cayman Financial Review on November 1, 2016. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), operating at the behest of its high-tax member nations, has gradually carved for itself a central role in global tax matters over...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 30, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I must be perversely masochistic because I have the strange habit of reading reports issued by international bureaucracies such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, United Nations, and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. But one tiny...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 20, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
I’ve previously written about the bizarre attack that the European Commission has launched against Ireland’s tax policy. The bureaucrats in Brussels have concocted a strange theory that Ireland’s pro-growth tax system provides “state aid” to companies like Apple (in...
