by Dan Mitchell | Aug 12, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Even though they ostensibly exist to promote economic growth, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have an unfortunate track record of promoting higher taxes and bigger government. Not that we...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 13, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Last month, I shared a chart from a study published by the European Central Bank. It showed which European nations were in the unfortunate position of facing big future spending increases (the vertical axis) combined with already-high levels...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 9, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
The past two days have featured columns about Estonia, with the first one focusing on the nation’s impressive rebound after decades of communist enslavement and the second one criticizing the Organization for Economic Cooperation and...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 8, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
I wrote yesterday about how pro-market policies in Estonia are helping that nation catch up (converge) with other European nations. Indeed, Estonia arguably is the most successful country to emerge from the economic...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 22, 2022 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
As part of my continuing efforts to derail Biden’s global minimum tax on businesses (here’s Part I and Part II), I explain the downsides of the president’s plan in this clip from a recent interview. If you don’t want to spend three minutes to watch the above video, my...
