William F. Shughart II, "Fannie and Freddie Fleece the Taxpayers", Urbana (OH) Daily Citizen, 19 August 2008, p. A-4.

William F. Shughart II, "Problems, and Government Interventions, Keep Growing", Detroit Free Press, 6 August 2008.

William F. Shughart II, "It's Time to Cut Fannie and Freddie Loose", North (San Diego, CA) County Times, 27 July 2008; also published in The Times of Trenton (NJ), 30 July 2008, as "Cut Fannie and Freddie Loose", Bucks County (PA) Courier Times, 29 July 2008, as "Gov't should put Fannie, Freddie Out of Business", Austin (TX) Business Journal, 8 August 2008, and as "Time to Cut Loose Fannie and Freddie", Providence (RI) Journal, 8 August 2008.

William F. Shughart II, "Spending like a Drunken Sailor", Hattiesburg American, 19 July 2008; also published as "Spending Addicts", Washington Times, 20 July 2008, and as "Spending like a Drunken Politician", Sun-Herald (Biloxi, MS), 18 July 2008, Lowell (MA) Sun, 28 July 2008.

William F. Shughart II, "Yard Sale for Cash-Strapped States", Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2008. Reprinted in the News & Observer (Raleigh, VA).

William F. Shughart II, "No One Holds Us over a Barrel: U.S. Diversifies its Oil Sources", The News-Journal (Daytona, Beach, FL), 29 May 2008, p. 5A; also published as "No One Holds Us over a Barrel", Daily Comet (Thibodaux, LA), 30 May 2008,The Times-Tribune (Scranton, PA), 1 June 2008, North (San Diego, CA) County Times, 15 June 2008, and Sheboygan (WI) Press, 20 June 2008.

William F. Shughart II, "Avoiding the Oil Crisis: Doomsday Can Be Averted", Bucks County (PA) Courier Times, Burlington County (PA) Times and The Intelligencer, 26 May 2008.

William F. Shughart II, "Stimulus, Shmimulus: Those Rebate Checks Won't Help", Bucks County (PA) Courier Times, Burlington County (PA) Times and The Intelligencer, 19 May 2008; also published as "Un Estimulo Fracasado", Vision Hispana (Alameda, CA), 1 April 2008.

William F. Shughart II, "Sell State Assets to Close Budget Gap", The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA), 8 May 2008.

William F. Shughart II, "Franklin Delano Bush Pushes a Bad Idea", Contra Costa (CA) Times, 12 April 2008. Also published as "More Harm than Good in Financial Patch Job", Oakland (CA) Tribune, 13 April 2008, and as "Fed as Watchdog will Create more Stability", San Ramon (CA) Valley Times, Pleasanton (CA) Valley Times, West County Times (Richmond, CA), 13 April 2008.

William F. Shughart II, "The Fed's Risky Business", The Washington Times, 11 April 2008.

William F. Shughart II, "Ben's Big Bailout", The Independent Institute Newsroom, 17 March 2008.

William F. Shughart II, “Daylight Savings Time Costs Nation $1.7 Billion”. Also published, inter alia, as “Daylight Saving Time Costs Nation $1.7 Billion”, The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), 7 March 2008 (also posted on the website of the Chicago Tribune); "Why Daylight Saving Time should Tick us Off", Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), 7 March 2008; “Daylight Spending Time?”, Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI), 7 March 2008; “Is Changing Your Clocks Worth $1.7 Billion?”, Sun-Herald (Biloxi, MS), 8 March 2008; “Money in the Bank … Maybe Not”, News-Leader (Springfield, MO), 8 March 2008; “Nation Can’t Afford Billion Dollar Time Change”, The Shreveport (LA) Times, 8 March 2008; “Spending by the Minute to Save Daylight by the Hour”, The Buffalo (NY) News, 8 March 2008; "It's Sure Not Money that it Saves", Star-News (Wilmington, DE), 8 March 2008; "DST Costs Us Billions (and Saves no Money)", The Tallahassee (FL) Democrat, 8 March 2008; "Truly Daylight Savings?", The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, PA), 9 March 2008, p. F1; "Daylight Savings: How to Lose $1.7 Billion", Clarion-Ledger, 9 March 2008; “Time Change Costs Show No Savings”, The Birmingham (AL) News, 9 March 2008; “Billion-Dollar Time Change”, Banner-Herald (Athens, GA), 9 March 2008; “Billion-Dollar Time Change”, The Roanoke (VA) Times, 9 March 2008; and "Daylight Saving Time's Dubious Economics", Providence (RI) Journal, 21 March 2008.

William F. Shughart II, "Supply Diversity is the Key to American Energy Security", Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 2 March 2008, p. 5A.

William F. Shughart II, "The Importance of Adequate Government Response: Hurricane Highlights a Failure of Governmental Management of Natural Disasters", Journal of International Peace Operations 3(4) (January-February 2008), pp. 9−10.