Writings by Topic: Markets, Economics, and Competition
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Mar-a-Lago's 'trade deficit' isn't a problem. Neither is America's. |
The Boston Globe |
March 9, 2025 |
The invincible incoherence of Trump's tariff obsession |
The Boston Globe |
February 5, 2025 |
Minimum wage goes up. Employment goes down. Rinse and repeat. |
Arguable |
December 17, 2024 |
Argentina's capitalist counterrevolution is off to a good start |
The Boston Globe |
December 8, 2024 |
Thank God for the 'invisible hand' |
The Boston Globe |
November 27, 2024 |
Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren, H.W. Bush ... and Harris? |
Arguable |
August 20, 2024 |
Will making community college free make it better? |
The Boston Globe |
July 28, 2024 |
More micromanaging will not cure Boston's liquor license shortage |
The Boston Globe |
June 5, 2024 |
If you can wager on the price of orange juice, why not on elections? |
The Boston Globe |
June 2, 2024 |
In Argentina, Milei's exhilarating chainsaw revolution is underway |
The Boston Globe |
May 19, 2024 |
The Wendy's beef was a nothingburger |
The Boston Globe |
March 17, 2024 |
Brookline's phased cigarette ban is unwise, irrational, and patronizing |
The Boston Globe |
December 3, 2023 |
Amazon is huge, but it's no monopoly |
The Boston Globe |
October 22, 2023 |
When the minimum wage rises, does homelessness rise too? |
The Boston Globe |
July 23, 2023 |
Your credit score is excellent, so prepare to be penalized |
The Boston Globe |
April 26, 2023 |
As any economist can tell Mayor Wu, rent control never works |
The Boston Globe |
January 29, 2023 |
What poor nations need is wealth, not climate reparations |
The Boston Globe |
December 7, 2022 |
Congress can attack inflation — if it chooses to |
The Boston Globe |
November 30, 2022 |
No, income inequality isn't at an all-time high. It's at a historic low. |
Arguable |
November 14, 2022 |
'The off-ramp out of extreme poverty' |
The Boston Globe / Arguable |
November 9, 2022 |
No, Hurricane Ian will not 'fuel the economy' |
The Boston Globe |
October 5, 2022 |
Sweet lands of liberty |
The Boston Globe |
August 31, 2022 |
When Jesus told stories about economics |
Arguable |
May 16, 2022 |
The trade deficit is up again. No worries. |
The Boston Globe |
May 11, 2022 |
'Putin's price hike' is just the latest Biden inflation myth |
The Boston Globe |
April 17, 2022 |
Netflix and the moose |
Arguable |
March 28, 2022 |
Bye-bye, Bay State |
The Boston Globe |
January 5, 2022 |
Nobody knows anything |
The Boston Globe |
January 2, 2022 |
Elizabeth Warren's one-trick inflation pony |
The Boston Globe |
December 29, 2021 |
I expected better of Elizabeth Warren |
Arguable |
December 27, 2021 |
The inflation hawks have been right all along |
The Boston Globe |
November 17, 2021 |
The virtue-signaling stock exchange |
The Boston Globe |
August 15, 2021 |
The cruelty of a higher minimum wage |
The Boston Globe |
February 10, 2021 |
Freedom of association and the Big Tech purge |
The Boston Globe |
January 13, 2021 |
A defeat for the cancel culture |
The Boston Globe |
August 5, 2020 |
When demand soars, prices should too |
The Boston Globe |
March 18, 2020 |
Actually, class warriors, skyrocketing inequality may be a myth |
The Boston Globe |
December 15, 2019 |
The counterproductive cruelties of occupational licensing |
The Boston Globe |
November 13, 2019 |
'Price gouging' during natural disasters isn't a problem. It's part of the solution |
The Boston Globe |
September 10, 2019 |
What to Frederick Douglass is the "Douglass Plan"? |
Arguable |
July 15, 2019 |
The government shutdown was expected to damage the economy. It didn't. |
The Boston Globe |
February 6, 2019 |
Net neutrality is gone, but the Internet is fine |
The Boston Globe |
December 30, 2018 |
The kosher-industrial complex |
The Boston Globe |
November 18, 2018 |
America has grown. Its highways should, too. |
The Boston Globe |
October 7, 2018 |
California's bad idea: gender quotas for corporate boards |
The Boston Globe |
September 16, 2018 |
San Francisco employees eat at work. City Hall wants to punish them |
The Boston Globe |
August 15, 2018 |
The businessman in the cassock |
The Boston Globe |
June 24, 2018 |
Leave Google alone |
The Boston Globe |
June 17, 2018 |
The undeferred dreams of Elias Howe and Madame C. J. Walker |
The Boston Globe |
March 25, 2018 |
China's corporate tools |
The Boston Globe |
March 11, 2018 |
Trump protects Americans from affordable washing machines |
The Boston Globe |
January 31, 2018 |
As a matter of fact, minimum wage laws hurt the poor |
The Boston Globe |
January 10, 2018 |
Bribes — er, incentives — for Amazon |
The Boston Globe |
September 13, 2017 |
While Trump tweets, Amazon hires |
The Boston Globe |
August 27, 2017 |
Freedom of association is for businesses, too |
The Boston Globe |
August 20, 2017 |
The collapse of the taxi-medallion shakedown |
The Boston Globe |
July 19, 2017 |
Sorry, class warriors, unions aren't coming back |
The Boston Globe |
June 11, 2017 |
Ditch Obamacare, and don't stop there |
The Boston Globe |
March 19, 2017 |
What Obamacare's drafters could have learned from a hairdresser |
The Boston Globe |
February 15, 2017 |
No men need apply |
The Boston Globe |
February 3, 2017 |
Trump's 'Buy American' call is economic folly |
The Boston Globe |
January 25, 2017 |
The fabulous wealth of the 'Oxfam 8' |
The Boston Globe |
January 18, 2017 |
Barack Obama's legacy of failure |
The Boston Globe |
January 8, 2017 |
As socialism shattered Venezuela, the useful idiots applauded |
The Boston Globe |
December 25, 2016 |
Minimum-wage laws: Good intentions, bad results |
The Boston Globe |
October 30, 2016 |
Hurricane Matthew's nonexistent silver lining |
The Boston Globe |
October 12, 2016 |
Lottery games online? Scratch that idea |
The Boston Globe |
July 10, 2016 |
Does it matter how many women sit on corporate boards? |
The Boston Globe |
June 19, 2016 |
Payday loans are a poor option. No payday loans would be worse |
The Boston Globe |
June 12, 2016 |
Should you need the government's permission to work? |
The Boston Globe |
June 5, 2016 |
Let patients pay the piper, and the price of health care will fall |
The Boston Globe |
April 24, 2016 |
GE, Massachusetts, and the corruption of crony capitalism |
The Boston Globe |
January 20, 2016 |
Our inalienable right to free trade |
The Boston Globe |
December 20, 2015 |
No, Bernie Sanders, Scandinavia is not a socialist utopia |
The Boston Globe |
October 18, 2015 |
'Sesame Street' moves to HBO, and everyone wins |
The Boston Globe |
August 19, 2015 |
It's socialism, not deodorant, that starves the poor |
The Boston Globe |
May 31, 2015 |
Strawberry field hands forever? |
The Boston Globe |
April 29, 2015 |
Politicians, 'profiteers,' and public health |
The Boston Globe |
April 26, 2015 |
China's economy isn't No. 1 — but if it were, so what? |
The Boston Globe |
December 11, 2014 |
As two-parent families decline, income inequality grows |
The Boston Globe |
November 30, 2014 |
Buy your health insurance out of state |
The Boston Globe |
November 19, 2014 |
Gas is cheaper. Where are the grandstanding politicians? |
The Boston Globe |
November 12, 2014 |
No, inverters aren't 'deserters' |
The Boston Globe |
July 23, 2014 |
Pfizer and the flight from punitive taxes |
The Boston Globe |
May 18, 2014 |
Why no wine online in Massachusetts? |
The Boston Globe |
April 2, 2014 |
Income gap? Not many are obsessed |
The Boston Globe |
January 29, 2014 |
Marketplace changes have made ENDA superfluous |
The Boston Globe |
November 17, 2013 |
The bitter pill of failed state tax incentives |
The Boston Globe |
November 6, 2013 |
Which ObamaCare shoe will drop next? |
The Boston Globe |
November 3, 2013 |
A cup of civility |
The Boston Globe |
October 6, 2013 |
Logan Airport is too important to be run by the state |
The Boston Globe |
September 1, 2013 |
Boston's taxicab mess – and the oligopoly behind it |
The Boston Globe |
April 7, 2013 |
Education liberation |
The Boston Globe |
March 10, 2013 |
What Medicare needs is a consumer-driven market |
The Boston Globe |
November 28, 2012 |
Minimum-wage laws are costly for the unemployed |
The Boston Globe |
July 11, 2012 |
A free market brings down health costs |
The Boston Globe |
June 13, 2012 |
Health care: No, the state doesn't know best |
The Boston Globe |
May 16, 2012 |
'The defining issue of our time'? Hardly |
The Boston Globe |
May 6, 2012 |
Taxi medallions shackle cabbies |
The Boston Globe |
March 11, 2012 |
Why should the state license drivers? |
The Boston Globe |
January 29, 2012 |
Tom Menino, cable guy? |
The Boston Globe |
January 22, 2012 |
E-mail isn't killing the Post Office |
The Boston Globe |
December 11, 2011 |
Medallion madness |
The Boston Globe |
November 6, 2011 |
Disaster isn't a stimulus package |
The Boston Globe |
August 28, 2011 |
Made in the U.S.A. |
The Boston Globe |
February 6, 2011 |
Europe says no to deficit-spending 'stimulus' |
The Boston Globe |
November 3, 2010 |
The waste of recycling |
The Boston Globe |
September 22, 2010 |
Get excited about recycling? Not me |
The Boston Globe |
September 19, 2010 |
'Clunkers' was a classic government folly |
The Boston Globe |
September 1, 2010 |
Does the press deserve a bailout? |
The Boston Globe |
July 20, 2010 |
What's wrong with price gouging? |
The Boston Globe |
May 4, 2010 |
Look who's carrying on |
The Boston Globe |
April 18, 2010 |
Paying the price for a UMass law school |
The Boston Globe |
February 7, 2010 |
Candidates, campaigns, and New Coke |
The Boston Globe |
January 30, 2010 |
Economics 101: How little they really know |
The Boston Globe |
December 16, 2009 |
The public's best option: Less government, more choice |
The Boston Globe |
November 4, 2009 |
The war against affordable books |
The Boston Globe |
October 28, 2009 |
Clunker Q&A |
The Boston Globe |
August 26, 2009 |
Health care: We don't need the Lexus |
The Boston Globe |
July 29, 2009 |
Minimum-wage folly |
The Boston Globe |
July 8, 2009 |
A deadly organ-donor system |
The Boston Globe |
July 5, 2009 |
Liberal bias isn't killing newspapers |
The Boston Globe |
May 6, 2009 |
The efficiency paradox |
The Boston Globe |
April 29, 2009 |
Money for nothing won't grow the economy |
The Boston Globe |
February 1, 2009 |
An over-optimistic stimulus plan |
The Boston Globe |
January 28, 2009 |
Health care shouldn't be linked to employment |
The Boston Globe |
October 19, 2008 |
Whose mess, Congressman Frank? |
The Boston Globe |
September 28, 2008 |
Seeing through Obamanomics |
The Boston Globe |
September 14, 2008 |
These are (still) the good old days |
The Boston Globe |
July 23, 2008 |
No profits, no oil |
The Boston Globe |
June 4, 2008 |
Remember, there's no free lunch |
The Boston Globe |
January 23, 2008 |
Scrap scalping laws |
The Boston Globe |
August 8, 2007 |
If the Registry really wants our love... |
The Boston Globe |
February 11, 2007 |
Bring on the 'price gougers' |
The Boston Globe |
August 22, 2004 |
Giving thanks for the 'invisible hand' |
The Boston Globe |
November 27, 2003 |
Tolls, but no tollbooths |
The Boston Globe |
September 4, 2003 |
The unbearable dullness of economic writing |
The Boston Globe |
August 21, 2003 |
The blessing of private property |
The Boston Globe |
November 28, 2002 |
The wit and wisdom of Bastiat |
The Boston Globe |
December 9, 2001 |
If I were the transportation czar |
The Boston Globe |
August 13, 2001 |
If Pell grants are lawful, vouchers are too |
The Boston Globe |
December 14, 2000 |
US trade barriers are bad — for the US |
The Boston Globe |
November 19, 1998 |
Microsoft's real crime: success |
The Boston Globe |
October 22, 1998 |
Patriotism and the Fortune 100 |
The Boston Globe |
July 30, 1998 |
Boston's 'lost' conventions |
The Boston Globe |
July 27, 1998 |
Why the tizzy over the trade deficit? |
The Boston Globe |
June 9, 1998 |
What hath Roe wrought |
The Boston Globe |
January 20, 1998 |
On college campuses, all is not yet lost |
The Boston Globe |
May 29, 1997 |
Who needs the Registry? |
The Boston Globe |
March 6, 1997 |
A commercial jewel in PBS's crown |
The Boston Globe |
February 13, 1997 |
Waging hypocrisy |
The Boston Globe |
July 25, 1996 |
Minimum wage, maximum pain |
The Boston Globe |
April 11, 1996 |
Break open the taxicab monopoly |
The Boston Globe |
December 5, 1995 |
Let competition move the mail |
The Boston Globe |
February 9, 1995 |
From Foxboro, foul play on the taxpayers |
The Boston Globe |
March 3, 1994 |
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