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Opinion and Commentary
"The 'Stimulus' for Unemployment," New York Post, November 17, 2009
"Redistributing Health," New York Post, October 12, 2009
"A 10 Million-Person Exaggeration?," Forbes, October 11, 2009
"Big Government, Big Recession," The Wall Street Journal, August 21, 2009
"Hey, Big Spender," Forbes, August 19, 2009
"A Second Stimulus Package? Yikes!," Forbes, July 10, 2009
"Fuel Standards Are Killing GM," The Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2009
"Krugman's Liquidity Claptrap," Forbes, June 19, 2009
"Recession and Recovery," Forbes, May 26, 2009
"How Banks Slipped the Fed's Noose," New York Post, May 12, 2009
"Bears Shouldn't Do Math," Forbes, May 11, 2009
"A Recession's Import," National Review, May 1, 2009
"Behind The Scenes Of Imprudent Bank Loans," Forbes, April 22, 2009
"It Didn't Start Here," New York Post, April 9, 2009
"The Government's Influence on the Stock Market," Forbes, March 25, 2009
"Is Capitalism Dead? Yes," National Public Radio, March 11, 2009
"The Foreclosure Five," New York Post, February 21, 2009
"Producer Prices, Inflation, and Deflation," National Review (Online), February 20, 2009
"Assessing the President's Mortgage Plan," The Wall Street Journal, February 19, 2009
"A Plan to Kill Banks," New York Post, February 11, 2009
"The Truth about Those Bonus Billions," Forbes, February 10, 2009
"It's a Recession Not a 'Catastrophe'," New York Post, February 9, 2009
"Rewriting Reality," National Review (Online), February 6, 2009
"$646,214 Per Government Job," The Wall Street Journal, January 28, 2009
"Faith-Based Economics," National Review, January 28, 2009
"Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class," Freeman, January 22, 2009
"Depressing Economics," Forbes, January 19, 2009
"Barack Obama and the Taxpayer," Forbes, November 6, 2008
"Obama's '$4 Billion for Exxon' Myth," The Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2008
"How's Obama Going to Raise $4.3 Trillion?," The Wall Street Journal, October 24, 2008
"What to Do About Executive Compensation," Washington Times, October 12, 2008
"Bank Loans Have Not 'Dried Up'," Forbes, October 1, 2008
"The Hoover Analogy Flunks," Forbes, September 29, 2008
"'Wall Street' No Longer Exists," The Wall Street Journal (Online), September 23, 2008
"Why Bailouts Scare Stocks," New York Post, September 18, 2008
"Don't Blame Bernanke," Forbes.com, September 5, 2008
"Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Should Be Cut Down and Cut Loose," U.S. News & World Report, July 21, 2008
"Why Not to Panic on Inflation," New York Post, July 18, 2008
"Scapegoating the Speculators," New York Post, June 20, 2008
"Get Ready for the Oil-Price Drop," New York Post, June 6, 2008
"Hillary Clinton's Appeal as an Optimist Has Steadily Declined Among Progressive Thinkers," Keene Equinox, May 1, 2008
"Economic Hysteria," New York Post, April 11, 2008
"How Pennsylvania Gains From NAFTA," New York Times Topics, April 7, 2008
"Jobs Hysteria from the Times," New York Post, March 15, 2008
"Housing Horrors," New York Post, February 26, 2008
"Tax Delusions," New York Post, February 15, 2008
"The Fed Does Right," New York Post, February 1, 2008
"Bear Traps for the Economy," New York Post, January 29, 2008
"Bush's Stimulus Flop," The Wall Street Journal, January 22, 2008
"Why I Am Not Using the R-word This Time," Financial Times, January 2, 2008
"Dissecting the Bailout Plan," The Wall Street Journal, December 10, 2007
"Getting Rich . . . on Paper," USA TODAY (MAGAZINE), November 19, 2007
"Interest Rates and Dollar Fundamentals," The Wall Street Journal, November 15, 2007
"Taxing Our Credulity," Washington Times, November 9, 2007
"What's in the 'Middle'," National Review, October 29, 2007
"The Truth About the Top 1%," The Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2007
"A Progressive Backlash?," Washington Times, June 5, 2007
"A Game of Semantics," Washington Times, May 27, 2007
"When 'Progressive' Means Punitive," Washington Times, May 20, 2007
"Offshore Miscalculations," Washington Times, May 13, 2007
"The Fear Industry," Washington Times, May 6, 2007
"'Supply Side' Defined," Washington Times, April 29, 2007
"What is Income?," Washington Times, April 22, 2007
"Economies Then and Now," Washington Times, April 15, 2007
"Layoffs in Perspective," Washington Times, April 8, 2007
"Stockman: Man and Myth," Washington Times, April 1, 2007
"Subprime Economics," Washington Times, March 25, 2007
"Schumer's Tax Loopholes," Washington Times, March 18, 2007
"'Backdating' Bunkum," Washington Times, March 11, 2007
"Stock Shock," Washington Times, March 4, 2007
"Politics and Moralizing," Washington Times, February 25, 2007
"Politics and Religion," Washington Times, February 18, 2007
"Inequality of What and When?," Washington Times, February 11, 2007
"Can the CBO Spell IRA?," by Alan Reynolds and David R. Henderson, Wall Street Journal Americas, February 6, 2007
"Dismal, Dreary Democrats," TownHall.com, January 25, 2007
"Looking High and Low for Taxes," TownHall.com, January 18, 2007
"A 15-Year Debate on Wealth," Washington Times, January 7, 2007
"Consumption Versus Income," TownHall.com, December 21, 2006
"Nostalgic About 1974?," Washington Times, December 17, 2006
"The Top 1%...of What?," The Wall Street Journal, December 14, 2006
"Populist Pap," Washington Times, December 3, 2006
"'Affordable' Economics," Washington Times, November 19, 2006
"Rhetorical Overheating," Washington Times, November 5, 2006
"Gas Tax Trial Balloon," Washington Times, October 29, 2006
"Statistical Politics Update," Washington Times, October 22, 2006
"Technological Provincialism," Washington Times, October 15, 2006
"Car Competition: Make More Vroom," Washington Times, October 1, 2006
"Work Matters," Washington Times, September 10, 2006
"Statistical Politics," Washington Times, September 3, 2006
"Witch Doctors and Thugs," Washington Times, August 27, 2006
"Inflation Exaggeration: Part II," Washington Times, August 20, 2006
"Second-Guessing the Fed," Washington Times, August 13, 2006
"Another Medical Catastrophe?," Washington Times, August 6, 2006
"Say It Isn't So, Hong Kong," Washington Times, July 30, 2006
"No Intelligence (Still)," Washington Times, July 9, 2006
"Which Inflation Target?," Humaneventsonline.com, June 15, 2006
"The 'Laffer Curve' Renamed," Humaneventsonline.com, June 8, 2006
"The Top One-hundredth of One Percent," TownHall.com, May 11, 2006
"Mixing Gasoline and Moonshine," Cato.org, May 8, 2006
"Tax Trading Trickery," TownHall.com, April 20, 2006
"Dropout Nation?," TownHall.com, April 13, 2006
"Yes, a Rising Tide," TownHall.com, March 30, 2006
"Going for Growth," TownHall.com, March 23, 2006
"The Top 10 Percent, Again," TownHall.com, March 9, 2006
"Wealth and Wages," TownHall.com, March 2, 2006
"Wal-Mart Health Benefit Blues," Washington Times, February 26, 2006
"Presidential Priorities," TownHall.com, February 2, 2006
"Tax Rates and Revenues," Washington Times, January 29, 2006
"Below the Minimum Wage," TownHall.com, January 19, 2006
"Executive Envy," TownHall.com, January 12, 2006
"Where Forecasting Went Right," TownHall.com, January 5, 2006
"A Phoney Pay Comparison," TownHall.com, December 15, 2005
"The Gift of Economics," TownHall.com, December 9, 2005
"Medicare's Muddled Meddling," TownHall.com, November 17, 2005
"Should Wal-Mart Hike Prices?," TownHall.com, November 10, 2005
"Hydrocarbon Hype," Washington Times, November 6, 2005
"This Is Tax Reform?," TownHall.com, October 27, 2005
"Be Careful, Mr. Greenspan," TownHall.com, October 20, 2005
"The Foolish Factor," Washington Times, October 9, 2005
"Ill Winds Blow Sick Politics," Washington Times, October 2, 2005
"Unreal Wages," TownHall.com, September 22, 2005
"Hurricane Economics," TownHall.com, September 15, 2005
"Poverty puffery," Washington Times, September 11, 2005
"Strategic reserves -- no strategy," TownHall.com, September 1, 2005
"Redesigning Trucks," Washington Times, August 28, 2005
"Estate Tax Spin," Washington Times, August 21, 2005
"Paul Krugman Still Befuddled by Supply-Side Success," Humaneventsonline.com, July 22, 2005
"Unocal Shareholder Rights," Washington Times, July 17, 2005
"CAFTA, China and the Carolinas," Washington Times, July 10, 2005
"Energy Piracy," Washington Times, July 3, 2005
"Oil Prices: Cause and Effect," TownHall.com, June 23, 2005
"The Top 1 Percent," Washington Times, June 19, 2005
"Car Wars," Creators Syndicate, June 9, 2005
"Hong Kong's Excellent Taxes," TownHall.com, June 2, 2005
"Manufacturing and Trade," Cato.org, May 26, 2005
"Class Struggle?," The Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2005
"Replacing Reality," TownHall.com, May 19, 2005
"Alternative-Fuel Nonsense," National Review (Online), May 17, 2005
"Doomsday Is Doomed," Washington Times, May 15, 2005
"Fatally 'Progressive' Social Security," Washington Times, May 5, 2005
"Illusionary Inflation," Investor's Business Daily, May 2, 2005
"WMD Doomsday Distractions," Washington Times, April 10, 2005
"Blowing Smoke On Gas Savings?," Washington Times, April 3, 2005
"Social Security vs. Stock Returns: No Contest," Washington Times, March 27, 2005
"Maximizing the Minimum Tax," Washington Times, March 20, 2005
"Myths About Social Security," National Review (Online), March 14, 2005
"The Sarbanes-Oxley Tax," Investor's Business Daily, March 14, 2005
"Trial by Press Release," Washington Times, March 6, 2005
"Myth Illogical," Washington Times, February 20, 2005
"Budget Boredom," Cato.org, February 15, 2005
"A Little Less Is Still a Lot," by Chris Edwards and Alan Reynolds, The Wall Street Journal, February 8, 2005
"Let Judges Use Judgment," Washington Times, January 23, 2005
"No Housing Bubble Trouble," Washington Times, January 9, 2005
"Painkiller Panic," Washington Times, January 2, 2005
"They Think You're Stupid," Cato.org, December 29, 2004
"Two-Faced Advice on Social Security," Washington Times, December 27, 2004
"Perspective: Dollar Disorientation Affects Even Conservative Analysts," Investor's Business Daily, December 3, 2004
"The Case for One Tax Rate," Cato.org, November 19, 2004
"Mythology Of Wages Vs Profits," Washington Times, November 11, 2004
"Four Years For What?," Creators Syndicate, November 4, 2004
"Speaking of Incompetence," Washington Times, October 31, 2004
"Not Spitzer's Job," The Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2004
"Unfair Games," Creators Syndicate, October 21, 2004
"Kerry's Social Security Plan," Washington Times, September 24, 2004
"Budget Deficits: Old Theories v. New Facts," Apple Daily, September 24, 2004
"Martha Stewart in Prison?," Cato.org, September 21, 2004
"Recalling the 1998 Tumble," Cato.org, September 15, 2004
"Distributing Free Speech," Cato.org, September 11, 2004
"Income Gapology 101," Cato.org, September 2, 2004
"Beltway Blindness," Cato.org, August 27, 2004
"Oblivious to Oil," Cato.org, August 20, 2004
"Overpriced Paternalism," Cato.org, August 10, 2004
"Election Year Hysteria," Cato.org, August 7, 2004
"The Deficit Estimating Cycle," Cato.org, July 28, 2004
"When More Is Less," Cato.org, July 25, 2004
"Jobs, Jobs, Jobs," Cato.org, July 17, 2004
"Deficits, Interest Rates and the Fed," Washington Times, July 4, 2004
"Energy Disinformation," Washington Times, June 27, 2004
"CIA, WMD, and Accountability," Cato.org, June 25, 2004
"The Reagan Renaissance," Cato.org, June 10, 2004
"Offshoring Which Jobs?," Washington Times, June 6, 2004
"Federal Oil Hoarding," Cato.org, June 2, 2004
"Demographics and Destiny," Washington Times, May 24, 2004
"The Fed: Lessons of 1972," Washington Times, May 13, 2004
"We Don't Draft Firemen," Washington Times, May 2, 2004
"How to Slash Your Tax Bills," Washington Times, April 25, 2004
"'Reforms' Miss the Mark," USA Today, April 21, 2004
"CEO Pay Parade," Washington Times, April 11, 2004
"Oil Reserves and Politics," Washington Times, April 4, 2004
"Jobs Melodrama Rerun," Washington Times, March 21, 2004
"Trivial Outsourcing Pursuits," Washington Times, March 14, 2004
"Martha's Mistrial: The Insider Trading Accusation Came from a Cowardly Press Leak from a Congressional Committee," Cato.org, March 9, 2004
"The Fed and the Election To Come," Washington Times, February 29, 2004
"Dean's Defective Label-Maker," Washington Times, February 26, 2004
"Where the Jobs Went," Cato.org, February 16, 2004
"Musky Income Myths," Washington Times, February 8, 2004
"Refrains from One Songbook," Washington Times, January 25, 2004
"A Fair Trial for Martha?," Washington Times, January 18, 2004
"Immigration Shuffle . . . and Mood Music," Washington Times, January 12, 2004
"Classless Warfare Escalates," Cato.org, January 5, 2004
"Exporting Tech Jobs to India?," TownHall.com, January 4, 2004
"Mutual Fund Fee Fantasy," Cato.org, December 20, 2003
"Deflating Inflation," Washington Times, December 7, 2003
"The Unfairness of Fair Trade," Washington Times, November 16, 2003
"Drug Discount Maze," Washington Times, November 10, 2003
"Hold on to That Mutual Fund," Washington Times, November 2, 2003
"Dollar Talkers," Washington Times, October 26, 2003
"Mystery of the Vanishing Weapons," Washington Times, October 12, 2003
"Politicized "Facts"," Washington Times, October 5, 2003
"Politicized 'Facts'," Washington Times, October 5, 2003
"High-tech Rebound," Washington Times, September 29, 2003
"School Voucher Venture," Washington Times, September 21, 2003
"Election Economics," Washington Times, September 14, 2003
"Gasoline Lines for California?," Washington Times, September 7, 2003
"Manufacturing Myths," Washington Times, August 31, 2003
"Fixing California," Washington Times, August 24, 2003
"Europe's Dabbling Hands in U.S. Business Affairs," Washington Times, August 17, 2003
"Higher Rates Reflect Higher Growth," Washington Times, August 10, 2003
"For Whom the Feuding Bells Toll," Washington Times, August 3, 2003
"Variety Spices Pay Plans," Washington Times, July 20, 2003
"State Tax Follies," Creators Syndicate, July 10, 2003
"Voting Drill on Stock Options," Washington Times, July 8, 2003
"Fedspeak with the Fed Rate Cut," Washington Times, June 29, 2003
"Martha Stewart: Obstructing Injustice," Cato.org, June 28, 2003
"WMD: Intelligence Without Brains," Cato.org, June 22, 2003
"Medicare Malpractice," Washington Times, June 22, 2003
"Deflation and Devaluation," Washington Times, June 1, 2003
"Endless Public Flogging on Wall Street," Washington Times, May 25, 2003
"Tax Cut Priorities," Washington Times, May 11, 2003
"A Depressing Situation," Washington Times, May 4, 2003
"Fingers Crossed, Prosperity Prognosticated," Washington Times, April 27, 2003
"What Ails the Market?," Washington Times, April 20, 2003
"Economic Confusion at CBO?," Washington Times, April 6, 2003
"War and Taxes," Washington Times, March 30, 2003
"Why Boycotting Wine Won't Work," Washington Times, March 23, 2003
"Economics of Warfare Revisited," Washington Times, March 16, 2003
"Unlikely Medicare Remedies," Washington Times, March 9, 2003
"The Medigap Gap," Creators Syndicate, March 6, 2003
"High-Income Builder's Subsidy," Washington Times, March 2, 2003
"The Duct Tape Economy," Washington Times, February 23, 2003
"Dividend Taxes Going Down," Washington Times, February 20, 2003
"Taxing Income Once," Washington Times, February 9, 2003
"Hazy WMD Definitions," Washington Times, February 2, 2003
"Governments Can't Create Jobs," Washington Times, January 29, 2003
"Dividend Confusion: Let's Grapple with a Tricky Topic," National Review (Online), January 15, 2003
"Improvements... and Horror Replays," Washington Times, January 12, 2003
"Stalked by Fears of Dividend Tax Cuts," Washington Times, December 29, 2002
"Stalked by Fears of Dividend Tax Cuts," Washington Times, December 29, 2002
"The President's New Troupe: A Potentially Revitalizing Shake-Up in Bush Economic Team," Cato.org, December 18, 2002
"Snow's Savvy Grasp," Washington Times, December 15, 2002
"The Dramatic Dual Resignations of US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and National Economic Council Director Larry Lindsey Were Not Accidental Coincidences," The Business, December 8, 2002
"Calling the Dogs off on Wall Street," Washington Times, December 1, 2002
"The Economics of War," Creators Syndicate, November 21, 2002
"Lower Tax Rates Mean Faster Economic Growth," Creators Syndicate, November 14, 2002
"How Not to Define Business Monopoly," Washington Times, November 10, 2002
"Rethinking Deflation," Washington Times, November 3, 2002
"Profit Paucity," Washington Times, October 20, 2002
"Health Coverage Hysteria," Washington Times, October 6, 2002
"When the IMF Extends an Embrace," Washington Times, September 29, 2002
"Picking on Perks," Washington Times, September 22, 2002
"Dividends and Debt," Creators Syndicate, September 12, 2002
"Free Martha Stewart," National Post, September 6, 2002
"Supply-Side Goes to Harvard," Washington Times, August 25, 2002
"Expect the Unexpected," Washington Times, August 18, 2002
"The Disconnect Was Disconnected," Creators Syndicate, August 8, 2002
"More Beltway Madness," National Review (Online), August 6, 2002
"How to fix AOL," Washington Times, August 5, 2002
"Overstocked Assumptions," Washington Times, July 28, 2002
"Bush on Wall Street," National Review (Online), July 10, 2002
"Another Confidence Game," National Review (Online), June 28, 2002
"Cry For Argentina," Creators Syndicate, April 25, 2002
"Big Brother Wants to Run Your 401(K)," Creators Syndicate, September 5, 2002
"Kennedy's Plan to Renege on Tax Cuts," Washington Times, January 31, 2002
"Senator Daschle's Odd Theory of Interest Rates," Cato.org, January 16, 2002
"Elementary Economic Humbug," Washington Times, November 29, 2001
"Wartime Economics ... Then and Now," Washington Times, October 25, 2001
"This Is no Holy War," Cato.org, September 18, 2001
"Would More Taxes Equal More Savings?," Washington Times, September 5, 2001
"Don't Trust the CBO's Numbers," The Wall Street Journal, August 30, 2001
"Micosoft's Appealing Case," by Robert A. Levy and Alan Reynolds, Cato.org, July 29, 2001
"Tax Cut 2001: A Little Bang for a lot of Buck," The Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2001
"Obama's Tax Deceptions," National Review (Online), November 4, 2008
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