The search for better economic policy.

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• Ants vs. Grasshoppers Why the Bush administration should encourage business investment.
  Robert Shapiro Dec. 26, 2002
  
• The Flat Tax, Flat-Lined Republicans usually love tax reform. Now that they control Washington, why are they scared of it?
  Robert Shapiro Nov. 26, 2002
  
• What Is the Mother of Invention? Why the American economy is so innovative.
  Robert Shapiro Oct. 18, 2002
  
• The Cost of Toppling Saddam Will an Iraq war hurt the economy?
  Robert Shapiro Oct. 2, 2002
  
• Deflation Nation Could falling prices send the U.S. into a Japanese-style recession?
  Robert Shapiro Sept. 10, 2002
  
• The IT Split Why Japan's tech industry bombed while America's boomed.
  Robert Shapiro Aug. 21, 2002
  
• The Options Problem It started with Adam Smith, not Bernie Ebbers.
  Robert Shapiro July 31, 2002