by CF&P | Feb 23, 2016 | News, Prosperity Updates
OECD News… OECD Endorses “Urgent” Keynesian Spending Binge Massive government spending increases to “stimulate” economic growth repeatedly fail to produce results, but international bureaucrats are still enamored with the idea. Dan...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 19, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
I don’t know whether Keynesian economics is best described as a perpetual motion machine or a Freddy Krueger movie (or perhaps even the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz), but it’s safe to say I’ll be fighting this pernicious theory until my last breath....
by Brian Garst | Jan 30, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in Cayman Financial Review on January 29, 2016. Problems with the OECD’s work on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) are numerous and will likely lead to a variety of negative consequences. Most obvious is the wasted effort put into a massive...
by Brian Garst | Jan 18, 2016 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
The famous Shakespeare quote is what comes to mind for Herman B. Bouma, Esq. when he thinks of BEPS, according to his article in BNA. We don’t share his conclusions about what ultimately ails the international tax landscape, but his critique of the OECD and the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 3, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Economics
Given what I wrote the other day about the statist proclivities of the OECD, here’s an item that shouldn’t surprise anyone. Even though South Africa already has an excessive burden of government, the Paris-based bureaucracy wants that nation to impose even higher...
