Jeff Jacoby
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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
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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