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...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
As I explained in this 2010 video, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is an international bureaucracy based in Paris that advocates for higher taxes and bigger government. I then wrote in 2011 that eliminating subsidies for this...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 15, 2025 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by IFC Review on February 10, 2025. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) was created after World War II for the ostensible purpose of promoting more prosperity among western-oriented nations. It was seen as...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 16, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation
My primary criticism of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is that the Paris-based international bureaucracy is trying to become some sort of global tax enforcer for left-wing policy. Indeed, I founded CF&P in 2000 precisely because the...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 9, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Fifteen years ago, I explained that the bailout of Greece (by the IMF-EC-ECB “troika“) was a mistake because the net effect was a much bigger tax burden and no reduction in the spending burden. And I did the same thing five years ago and found the same...
