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Key Bridge Catastrophe Exposes America's Fragile Transport System Mar. 27, 2024
The Baltimore bridge catastrophe, which dominates this week's news, is at best an instructive disast... Read More
Is Our Father Kidding Us About Current Pumpkin Prices? Nov. 13, 2023
DR. WALLACE: Thanksgiving is coming up soon, and my sister and I want to decorate our family house, ... Read More
Both Parties Offer Phony Cures for Inflation May. 20, 2022
The American two-party political system exists to ensure that for any problem that emerges, there ar... Read More
The Wrong People Run the Economy Oct. 29, 2021
A month or so ago, I went to five different stores before I found the kind of cat food our cats like... Read More
Lessons Learned From China's Chokehold on America Apr. 11, 2020
Indulge me a quick personal story. Twice now, I've been duped by Facebook ads into ordering American... Read More
Managing a Disaster Apr. 01, 2020
I'm not sure whether COVID-19, first identified in Wuhan, China, in the U.S. qualifies as a true dis... Read More
Price Gouging in a Time of Crisis Mar. 21, 2020
We live in strange times these days. Nearly every American's life has been upended by something we c... Read More
Congress' Own Experts Say the Tax Cuts Are a Bust. Republicans Should Pay at the Polls Jun. 07, 2019
In a recent report, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service has confirmed what serious econom... Read More
Price Gouging During a Natural Disaster Oct. 24, 2018
Thirteen states — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Yo... Read More
Prices Should Rise Sep. 19, 2018
Officials in states hit by Hurricane Florence are on the lookout for "price gouging." People who en... Read More
El Chapo Got Caught. So What? Jan. 14, 2016
All across America last weekend, panicked drug users rushed to their dealers to stock up on marijuan... Read More
Oreo Aggravation Jun. 25, 2015
Not everyone shares my hobby, but let me put it out there. It's grocery shopping. Nothing I enjoy mo... Read More
The Con of Certificate of Need Laws Jun. 11, 2015
If I got a dollar each time the federal or state government promised that new regulations of the hea... Read More
Embarrassing Economists Oct. 22, 2014
So as to give some perspective, I'm going to ask readers for their guesses about human behavior befo... Read More
Lower Benefits, Higher Jobs -- Paul Ryan Has It Right Aug. 09, 2014
Co-written by Robert Sinche Neel Kashkari, the Republican candidate for governor of California, just... Read More
What Occupy Wall Street Gets Wrong Nov. 05, 2011
If you want to know what motivates the people involved in Occupy Wall Street, you can get a good ide... Read More
