Opinion columns by Timothy Taylor in the San Jose Mercury News in 1997
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September 21, 1997 - "A Journalist-Economist Switches Gears"

August 15, 1997 - "Euro No Magic Wand for European Unity"

June 11, 1997 - "Closing the Gap in Wages"

June 9, 1997 - "Reducing the Work Week Seems Like a Simple Solution to Create Jobs; Not So"

May 20, 1997 - "Inflation Guideposts are Worth a Try"

May 9, 1997 - "Knocking Down the Federal Debt"

April 28, 1997 - "Arms Spending Falls (Show Me the Savings!)"

April 24, 1997 - "The World of Work"

April 15, 1997 - "Flatter, But Not Flat, is the Best Tax Reform"

April 11, 1997 - "Is the Dow Too High? No"

March 25, 1997 - "Sometime, Somewhere, a Recession Will Strike"

March 2, 1997 - "Family-leave Law Doesn't Work for Most Americans"

February 14, 1997 - "America Needs to Start Figuring Out How It Will Pay for the Retirement of the Postwar Generation: The Difference that a Deficit Makes"

January 30, 1997 - "The Myth of Horatio Alger"

January 19, 1997 - "Could You Trust Wall Street with Your Retirement Savings?"