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     2011

• "Obama Can Lead - Or He Can Continue to Blame Others," New York Daily News, August 15, 2011
• "How to Get That AAA Rating Back," The Wall Street Journal, August 8, 2011
• "The Coming Crises of Governments," Financial Times, August 3, 2011
• "Robin Hood Can't Lead Us Out of the Debt Hole," The Wall Street Journal, July 27, 2011
• "Unions vs. the Right to Work," The Wall Street Journal, February 28, 2011

     2010

• "Thoughts on QE2," The Economist, Free Exchange, November 23, 2010
• "Obamanomics Meets Incentives," The Wall Street Journal, September 14, 2010
  
• "The Folly of Subsidizing Unemployment," The Wall Street Journal, August 30, 2010
• "Disasters, Recoveries, and the Equity Premium," (with E. Nakamura, J. Steinsson, and J.F. Ursua) VoxEU.org, July 8, 2010
• "Educational Attainment in the World, 1950-2010," (with J.W. Lee) VoxEU.org, May 18, 2010
  
• "The Stimulus Evidence One Year On," The Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2010

      2009

• "On the Economy: He Should Stop Whining about Bush," The Observer (Guardian.co.uk), October 31, 2009
• "Stimulus Spending Doesn’t Work," (with C.J. Redlick) The Wall Street Journal, October 1, 2009
• "Lucas Roundtable: Don’t Fault the Economists," Economist.com, August 8, 2009
• "Pandemics and Depressions," (with J.F. Ursua) The Wall Street Journal, May 4, 2009
• "What Are the Odds of a Depression?" The Wall Street Journal, March 4, 2009
• "Voodoo Multipliers," Economists’ Voice, v.6, issue 2, article 5, 2009
• "Government Spending is No Free Lunch," The Wall Street Journal, January 22, 2009

      2007

• "Bill Gates's Charitable Vistas," The Wall Street Journal, June 19, 2007

      2006

• “The Greenspan Story: Goodbye, Mr. Big Chips” The Wall Street Journal, January 30, 2006

• “Liberal Policies for Economic Growth” Les Echos, Paris, May 12, 2006

      2005

• "The Right Choice For The Fed" Business Week, November 7, 2005
• "What Price Catastrophe Risk?" Business Week, October 3, 2005
• "The Political Power Of The Pew " Business Week, August 22, 2005
• "Quit Bullying China" Business Week, July 18, 2005
• "How The Fed Could Channel Greenspan" Business Week, June 13, 2005
• "Iraq: One Nation Under Allah" Business Week, May 9, 2005
• "Why Private Accounts Are Bad Public Policy" Business Week, April 4, 2005
• "The Case of Asia's 'Missing Women" Business Week, February 28, 2005
• "How Tax Reform Drives Growth and Investment" Business Week, January 24, 2005

      2004

• "Bias Beyond a ReasonableDoubt " The Weekly Standard, December 13, 2004
• "Mysteries Of The Gaping Current-Account Gap " Business Week, December 13, 2004
• "Debunking the Myths of the Kerry Campaign " Business Week, November 8, 2004
• "Why are the Dems Griping about Jobs? " Business Week, October 4, 2004
• "Drugs Via Canada? The Side Effects Could Hurt " Business Week, August 30, 2004
• "Uncle Sam Wants You, But The Draft Is History" Business Week, July 26, 2004
• "The Liberal Media: It's No Myth" Business Week, June 14, 2004
• "The Tea Leaves that Matter to the Fed" Business Week, May 10, 2004
• "A Step in the Right Direction for Iraq" Business Week, April 5, 2004

• "Go Figure," Wall Street Journal Business Week, March 9, 2004

• "It's the Spending, Stupid - Not the Deficit" Business Week, March 1, 2004

• "Don't Sweat the Sickly Employment Numbers" Business Week, January 26, 2004

      2003

• "The GOP Doth Protect Too Much, Methinks" Business Week, December 15, 2003
• "What's in a Name For Black Job Seekers?" Business Week, November 3, 2003
• "The Stubborn Jobless Rate: Puzzling, but Far from Scary" Business Week, September 29, 2003
• "Why the Second Half Looks More Solid Every Day" Business Week, August 25, 2003
• "South Korea: How to Keep the Miracle Going" Business Week, June 9, 2003
• "Have No Fear: Bush's Tax Plan Won't Jack Up Interest Rates" Business Week, May 5, 2003
• "A Democratic Iraq Isn't An Impossible Dream" Business Week, March 31, 2003
• "There's A Lot To Like in Bush's Tax Plan" Business Week, February 24, 2003
• "Bush's Tax Cuts: Reagonomics Redux?" Business Week, January 20, 2003

      2002

• "The Best Little Monopoly in America" Business Week, December 9, 2002
• "Bush's Economic Policies: The Bull's-Eyes and Busts" Business Week, November 4, 2002
• "China's Slow Yet Steady March to Reform" Business Week, September 30, 2002
• "Bush's Economics Team Is Broken, and It's Time to Fix It" Business Week, August 26, 2002
• "Pleading the Case for a Paid-Jury System" Business Week, July 22, 2002
• "The Myth that Poverty Breeds Terrorism" Business Week, June 10, 2002
• "The U.N. Is Dead Wrong on Poverty and Inequality" Business Week, May 6, 2002
• "Big Steel Doesn't Need Any More Propping Up" Business Week, April 1, 2002
• "The State of the Union: Bush Mostly Got It Right" Business Week, February 25, 2002
• "Don't Bank on Democracy in Afghanistan" Business Week, January 21, 2002

      2001

• "Is Prosperity Next to Godliness?" Business Week, December 10, 2001
• "Why the War Against Terror Will Boost the Economy" Business Week, November 5, 2001
• "Why the U.S. Economy Will Rise Again" Business Week, October 1, 2001
• "How's Bush Doing? A Six-Month Report Card" Business Week, August 27, 2001
• "Adios Peso?" The Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2001.
• "Why Would a Rock Star Want to Talk to Me?" Business Week, July 16, 2001
• "A 'Yankee Imperialist' Offers Asia a Road Map" Business Week, June 11, 2001
• "Argentina's Cavallo May not Play the Hero this Time" Business Week, May 7, 2001
• "Why Colleges Shouldn't Dump the SAT" Business Week, April 9, 2001
• "Boy, We Really Need a Tax Cut" Business Week, February 26, 2001
• "Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones..." Business Week, January 22, 2001

      2000

• "The Dollar Club: Why Countries Are So Keen to Join" Business Week, December 11, 2000
• "Gore's 'Reckless and Offensive' Passion for the Environment" Business Week, November 6, 2000
• "Attention Consumers: Creativity Never Comes Cheap" Business Week, October 2, 2000
• "Compassionate Conservatism: Look Beyond the Label" Business Week, September 4, 2000
• "Mexico: Democracy is Great, but What About Economic Reform?" Business Week, July 31, 2000
• "Privatizing Social Security: Where Both Sides go Wrong" Business Week, July 3, 2000
• "Is the Market Too High or Too Low? Maybe a Little of Both," Business Week, June 5, 2000
• "With Friends Like Opec, Who Needs..." Business Week, May 8, 2000
• "If We Can't Abolish the IMF, Let's at Least Make Big Changes," Business Week, April 10, 2000.
• "To Beat Colombia's Guerrillas, Legalize Drugs in the U.S.," Business Week, March 13, 2000.
• "Clueless on the Alps- or Why I'm Down on Davos," Business Week, February 14, 2000.
• "One Pinochet Legacy that Deserves to Live," Business Week, January 17, 2000.

      1999

• "How to Build Your Own Fed Crystal Ball," Business Week, December 6, 1999.
• "Mundell: The Man Who Laid the Groundwork for the Euro," Business Week, November 1, 1999.
• "Does Abortion Lower the Crime Rate?," Business Week, September 27, 1999.
• "Is Alan Greenspan a Genius- or Just Plain Lucky?," Business Week, August 16, 1999.
• "My Luncheon with Bono," Business Week, July 12, 1999.
• "A Look at Larry Summers- from Haircuts," Business Week, June 7, 1999.
• "The Men Running Brazil Still Don't Get It," Business Week, May 3, 1999.
  "Does an Income Gap Put a Hex on Growth?," Business Week, March 29, 1999.
• "Let the Dollar Reign from Seattle to Santiago," The Wall Street Journal, March 8, 1999.
• "Reagan vs. Clinton: Who's the Economic Champ?," Business Week, February 22, 1999.
• "Even Economists Can't Wait to Spend a Surplus," Business Week, January 18, 1999.

      1998

• "The IMF Doesn't Put Out Fires, It Starts Them," Business Week, December 7, 1998.
• "Malaysia Could Do Worse Than This Economic Plan," Business Week, November 2, 1998. 
• "What Might Save Russia: Tying the Ruble to the Dollar," Business Week, September 28, 1998.
  "Why the Antitrust Cops Should Lay Off High Tech," Business Week, August 17, 1998.
• "Milton Friedman: Being Right is the Best Revenge," Business Week, July 13, 1998.
  "Don't Tinker with Social Security, Reinvent It," Business Week, June 8, 1998.
• "The East Asian Tigers Have Plenty to Roar About," Business Week, April 27, 1998.
• "So You Want to Hire the Beautiful. Well, Why Not?," Business Week, March 16, 1998.  

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