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From ‘Businessman’ to ‘Business Person’: OECD’s War on Common Sense

TEC News October 18, 2025

A new language guide urges economists to replace dozens of everyday words with “inclusive” alternatives—a move critics call another victory for the woke bureaucracy.

Let Taiwan Join the OECD

Bruce Gilley June 7, 2024

China, which is a partner rather than an OECD member, has been allowed to block a wider role for Taiwan.

EU Profits Tax Could Be Used To Bully Member States

Sven R. Larson October 19, 2023

The proposed EU corporate profits tax will either become a power tool against recalcitrant member states or the most unpredictable cost item in any corporation’s finances.

Oxfam: EU Violates Aid Spending Rules to Curb Migration

Tristan Vanheuckelom September 24, 2023

Report found no record of which projects were financed by €80 billion EU aid fund

Hollowing Out in Slow Motion: Germany’s Middle Class Contracts

Tristan Vanheuckelom August 9, 2023

With a marginal burden of around 50% of gross income under Germany’s taxation and transfer system, people with middle incomes effectively end up with only half of every euro they earn, a study shows.

Hungary: Europe’s Pro-Family Leader

Sven R. Larson January 10, 2023

It is really very simple. You get what you incentivize, and with Viktor Orbán’s pro-family welfare policies in place, the Hungarian population is bound to see positive results.

OECD Education Report Shows Widening Education Gap in Europe

Bridget Ryder November 7, 2022

A growing area of concern, according to the numbers released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, is the number of people who are neither working nor studying.

Brexit Worked: British Economy Leaves EU Behind

Sven R. Larson January 4, 2022

The British economy has been largely unaffected by its exit from the European Union. That is not to say there will not be other repercussions; there is an ongoing debate about the future of the financial industry in London, with the implication that the British capital may lose its status as a global hub for the financial industry.

The EU Participates in Harmful Tax Collusion

Sven R. Larson January 2, 2022

Once countries with costly governments have created a Berlin Wall around their high-tax jurisdictions, they will be free to collude on other taxes beyond the corporate income tax. Personal income taxes, wealth taxes, death taxes… there is no end to the imagination of a government that does not have to worry about tax competition.

International Organizations and the Suppression of Dissent

Pieter Cleppe November 15, 2021

There are numerous instances of international organizations, such as the OECD and the WHO, not asking for—and in some cases even suppressing—input from those with different opinions. Is this “cancel culture” among multilaterals?

Tag: OECD

From ‘Businessman’ to ‘Business Person’: OECD’s War on Common Sense

Let Taiwan Join the OECD

EU Profits Tax Could Be Used To Bully Member States

Oxfam: EU Violates Aid Spending Rules to Curb Migration

Hollowing Out in Slow Motion: Germany’s Middle Class Contracts

Hungary: Europe’s Pro-Family Leader

OECD Education Report Shows Widening Education Gap in Europe

Brexit Worked: British Economy Leaves EU Behind

The EU Participates in Harmful Tax Collusion

International Organizations and the Suppression of Dissent

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