 In the early 1990s he argued widely in the US and Canadian press against the economic feasibility of Quebec's separation from Canada, particularly in a series of opinion articles in "The Wall Street Journal".He coined the term "the internet economy" in a "Wall Street Journal" opinion article by that title in 1996.In the later 1990s he published articles in the general and trade press against restructuring the wholesale electric industry into a centralized spot market.