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...
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...
