Archive | February 1, 2019

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35 Years Ago: My First Wall Street Journal Bash on Business Subsidies

My first Wall Street Journal oped was published 35 years ago today.  It was a slash-and-burn attack on the Reagan administration’s hypocrisy for giving more handouts to business than they ever previously received.  Tim Ferguson was the WSJ editor who accepted the piece; he was one of the most courageous and principled editors I ever […]

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