Whether for Reasons of Good Policy or Personal Revenge, Trump and Republicans Should End Subsidies for the OECD

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...

True to Form, the Paris-Based OECD Urges More Class-Warfare Tax Hikes and Big Expansions of the Welfare State

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...

The Paris-Based OECD (Financed by American Tax Dollars) Urges Bigger Government in the United States

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...

China Won’t Become a Rich Nation if it Follows the OECD’s Bad Advice

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 27, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has published a 136-page “Economic Survey” of China. My first reaction is to wonder why the Paris-based bureaucracy needs any publication, much less such a long document, when Economic Freedom of the...

OECD Watch: BEPS Project Remains the Main Focus

by Andrew F. Quinlan | Feb 10, 2017 | Opinion and Commentary

Originally published by Cayman Financial Review on February 1, 2017. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has gradually carved for itself a central role in global tax matters over the past two decades. Today, its many initiatives impact...