by Dan Mitchell | Nov 27, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
bout a year ago, I spoke at a conference in Europe that attracted a lot of very rich people from all over the continent, as well as a lot of people who manage money for high-net-worth individuals. What made this conference remarkable was not the presentations, though...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 4, 2011 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
Being the world’s self-appointed defender of so-called tax havens has led to some rather bizarre episodes. The bureaucrats at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development threatened to have me thrown in a Mexican jail for the horrible crime of standing in...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 14, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Financial Privacy, Government Spending
Greetings from Montreux, Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Geneva. There aren’t many places where palm trees are framed by snow-capped mountains. Heck, even I managed to take a decent photo. But let’s shift back to the world of public policy. Every time I’m in...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 5, 2010 | Blogs, Europe
The United States, Canada, and Switzerland are the only developed nations that have some degree of genuine federalism (Germany and Australia don’t count by my standards), and Switzerland is the only country where the central government is smaller than the...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 29, 2010 | Blogs, Taxation
I’ve always had a soft spot for Switzerland. The nation’s decentralized structure shows the value of federalism, both as a means of limiting the size of government and as a way of promoting tranquility in a nation with several languages, religions, and ethnic groups....
