Robert Barro

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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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