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Opinion

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  • Observer Staff
  • January 14, 2010
Marketplace of Ideas: How much is too much?

The vices and virtues of limiting executive compensation. But government limitation busts American tradition.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • December 31, 2009
History shows how to get on 'The Road to Prosperity'

Good riddance 2009.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 12, 2009
Election time: Crist changes his tune; don't buy the pitch

Don't buy it. Please don't buy it.

  • Opinion
    By
  • George Rauch
  • October 29, 2009
It's unavoidable: Gold to go up, up, up

When you combine all the factors that affect the price of gold, you can't reach any other conclusion: The price will continue to rise.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • September 8, 2009
Review & Comment

Health-care future: Just look at USPS,

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 24, 2009
Marketplace of ideas

High-speed rail fails as a jobs program

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • August 7, 2009
Crist vs.Rubio: It's celluloid vs. substance

Real Republicans in Florida, especially those big-money business people who helped finance Charlie Crist's march to the governorship four years ago, have a serious dilemma.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Rod Thomson
  • July 10, 2009
The tax boon that is growth

A national economist clearly shows how growth pays for itself and so much more.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • July 2, 2009
Review & Comment

Two epochs defined our 'Spirit of America'

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • June 18, 2009
Review & Comment

S.B. 360 snips only the tip of the growth tumor

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • May 8, 2009
Review & Comment

Kudos to a do-nothing Legislature

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • April 23, 2009
The price for equality: You lose freedom

It's happening before your eyes every day, more than it has since the dark days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The takeover of your life by the Next New Deal.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Rod Thomson
  • April 17, 2009
Crist's insurance follies ruinous

Gov. Charlie Crist's policies are wrecking the insurance market and imperiling Florida taxpayers.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 10, 2009
More burdens on Florida taxpayers?

Protecting the costliest homes in the riskiest parts of Florida helps protect all the taxpayers of Florida

  • Opinion
    By
  • Amity Shlaes
  • April 2, 2009
Less Action

Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker dishes out an antidote to federal activism through the Mont Pelerin Society.

  • Opinion
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