China’s risky money game
August 17, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson To understand China’s surprise currency devaluation, you need context. China is engineering a major economic transformation — or, at least, trying. For years, it relied…
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Will the Fed’s “lift off” be grounded?
August 17, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson For many months, economy-watchers have been obsessed with “lift off”: the moment the Federal Reserve raises short-term interest rates, which have been held close to…
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Will the Fed’s “lift off” be grounded?
August 17, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson For many months, economy-watchers have been obsessed with “lift off”: the moment the Federal Reserve raises short-term interest rates, which have been held close to…
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The meaning of Trump
August 17, 2015
By Kathleen Parker It is perhaps time to stop wondering what The Donald’s got that the others ain’t got. What he’s got is conservative America’s number, which has less…
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The meaning of Trump
August 17, 2015
By Kathleen Parker It is perhaps time to stop wondering what The Donald’s got that the others ain’t got. What he’s got is conservative America’s number, which has less…
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Curbing global warming: mission impossible?
August 10, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson On climate change, we need to go beyond the tired storyline of “deniers” versus the “scientific consensus.” Until it’s discredited by falling temperatures, global warming…
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Curbing global warming: mission impossible?
August 10, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson On climate change, we need to go beyond the tired storyline of “deniers” versus the “scientific consensus.” Until it’s discredited by falling temperatures, global warming…
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Health spending — back to the future
August 10, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson It was nice while it lasted, but it’s over and may not return for many years, if ever. The “it” is the slowdown in national…
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Health spending — back to the future
August 10, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson It was nice while it lasted, but it’s over and may not return for many years, if ever. The “it” is the slowdown in national…
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Making a good first impression
August 10, 2015
By Kathleen Parker CLEVELAND – Not to diminish the importance of the first Republican debate, but it felt like the first in a political survivor series. The question wasn’t…
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Making a good first impression
August 10, 2015
By Kathleen Parker CLEVELAND – Not to diminish the importance of the first Republican debate, but it felt like the first in a political survivor series. The question wasn’t…
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Minimum-wage madness
August 5, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson A while back — in January 1997, to be precise — I wrote a column on the euro, which was to be introduced in 1999.…
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Minimum-wage madness
August 5, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson A while back — in January 1997, to be precise — I wrote a column on the euro, which was to be introduced in 1999.…
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Pre-debate excitement soars
August 5, 2015
By Kathleen Parker No doubt you have butterflies just thinking about Thursday’s first GOP debate. I know I do. Center stage will be the man who needs no further…
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Pre-debate excitement soars
August 5, 2015
By Kathleen Parker No doubt you have butterflies just thinking about Thursday’s first GOP debate. I know I do. Center stage will be the man who needs no further…
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Conception deception
August 5, 2015
By Kathleen Parker It took three videos showing Planned Parenthood doctors and executives discussing the culling and retailing of aborted baby parts, but Hillary Clinton finally managed to say…
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Conception deception
August 5, 2015
By Kathleen Parker It took three videos showing Planned Parenthood doctors and executives discussing the culling and retailing of aborted baby parts, but Hillary Clinton finally managed to say…
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Explaining the world’s economic funk
August 3, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson To understand the economy, you’ve got to resort to psychology. Throughout the recovery, forecasters — including those at the Federal Reserve and the International Monetary…
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Explaining the world’s economic funk
August 3, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson To understand the economy, you’ve got to resort to psychology. Throughout the recovery, forecasters — including those at the Federal Reserve and the International Monetary…
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Obama’s truth out of Africa
August 3, 2015
By Kathleen Parker It is good to be President Barack Obama these days. In the midst of a visit to Africa, including Kenya, where Republican front-runner Donald Trump has…
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Obama’s truth out of Africa
August 3, 2015
By Kathleen Parker It is good to be President Barack Obama these days. In the midst of a visit to Africa, including Kenya, where Republican front-runner Donald Trump has…
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Medicare and Medicaid — a tarnished triumph
July 27, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson It was exactly 50 years ago this week that President Lyndon Johnson flew to Independence, Missouri and, with former President Harry Truman at his side,…
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Medicare and Medicaid — a tarnished triumph
July 27, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson It was exactly 50 years ago this week that President Lyndon Johnson flew to Independence, Missouri and, with former President Harry Truman at his side,…
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The trouble with Clinton’s profit sharing
July 27, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson Hillary Clinton has just given us an object lesson — presumably unintended — demonstrating why our tax system is such a complex mess. The main…
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The trouble with Clinton’s profit sharing
July 27, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson Hillary Clinton has just given us an object lesson — presumably unintended — demonstrating why our tax system is such a complex mess. The main…
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Before we lose our minds
July 27, 2015
By Kathleen Parker Current quibbling over what Jeb Bush meant when he said it’s time to phase out and replace Medicare — as opposed to “attacking the seniors,” as…
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Before we lose our minds
July 27, 2015
By Kathleen Parker Current quibbling over what Jeb Bush meant when he said it’s time to phase out and replace Medicare — as opposed to “attacking the seniors,” as…
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Trumping himself
July 27, 2015
By Kathleen Parker Donald Trump can’t help himself. Nor can we. The “worse” he gets, it seems, the better we like it. Watching Trump is so deliciously awful, we…
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Trumping himself
July 27, 2015
By Kathleen Parker Donald Trump can’t help himself. Nor can we. The “worse” he gets, it seems, the better we like it. Watching Trump is so deliciously awful, we…
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Productivity goes bust
July 20, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson What’s surprising about the disappointing slowdown in productivity is that, by all outward signs, it ought to be booming. Productivity is economic jargon for efficiency,…
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The true danger of China’s crash
July 20, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson China’s spectacular stock crash poses three questions. First, what caused it? Next, will it harm the “real” economy of spending and hiring, inside China and…
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A modest proposal for humanity
July 20, 2015
By Kathleen Parker In his satirical solution to Ireland’s prolific poor, especially among Catholics whose fish diet was thought to enhance fertility, Jonathan Swift suggested a new menu item:…
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Dare not say his name
July 20, 2015
By Kathleen Parker In South Carolina these days, no one speaks his name. The 21-year-old man-boy, who allegedly murdered nine people and incited unity instead of the race war…
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A new day in South Carolina
July 20, 2015
By Kathleen Parker The past may not be past, as William Faulkner once put it. But it sure seems to be leaving. As I watched the broadcast of the…
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A new day in South Carolina
July 20, 2015
By Kathleen Parker The past may not be past, as William Faulkner once put it. But it sure seems to be leaving. As I watched the broadcast of the…
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Greece’s D-Day
July 14, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson Suddenly Greece is about a lot more than Greece. The lopsided Greek vote — 61 percent to 39 percent — to reject the last rescue…
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Greece’s D-Day
July 14, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson Suddenly Greece is about a lot more than Greece. The lopsided Greek vote — 61 percent to 39 percent — to reject the last rescue…
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When bragging is winning
July 14, 2015
By Kathleen Parker “So, Mom,” he says. “Did you tweet that you were going on ‘Meet the Press’?” No. “Did you tweet that you were going on ‘Hardball’?” No.…
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When bragging is winning
July 14, 2015
By Kathleen Parker “So, Mom,” he says. “Did you tweet that you were going on ‘Meet the Press’?” No. “Did you tweet that you were going on ‘Hardball’?” No.…
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The global debt trap
July 6, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson We have the Greeks to thank for an elementary tutorial in what ails the world economy. Greece’s central problem is that it has too much…
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The global debt trap
July 6, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson We have the Greeks to thank for an elementary tutorial in what ails the world economy. Greece’s central problem is that it has too much…
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Will Greece’s crisis spread?
July 6, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson Greece is a mess. The banks are shut; withdrawals from ATMs are strictly limited. A referendum will determine whether or not Greece accepts tough conditions for…
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Will Greece’s crisis spread?
July 6, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson Greece is a mess. The banks are shut; withdrawals from ATMs are strictly limited. A referendum will determine whether or not Greece accepts tough conditions for…
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The Don vs. The Bern
July 6, 2015
By Kathleen Parker Stranger things have happened in American politics, but the sudden surge of Democratic/Populist Bernie Sanders and Republican/Pompulist Donald Trump puts one in mind of alternate universes.…
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The Don vs. The Bern
July 6, 2015
By Kathleen Parker Stranger things have happened in American politics, but the sudden surge of Democratic/Populist Bernie Sanders and Republican/Pompulist Donald Trump puts one in mind of alternate universes.…
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Michelle Obama’s evolution
July 6, 2015
By Kathleen Parker First-term first ladies are often shadows to their more-important husbands, dabbling in lite fare to avoid criticism and picking safe projects to shield them and their…
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Michelle Obama’s evolution
July 6, 2015
By Kathleen Parker First-term first ladies are often shadows to their more-important husbands, dabbling in lite fare to avoid criticism and picking safe projects to shield them and their…
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Trade Promotion Authority
July 1, 2015
Peter M. Brown President Colite International As president of South Carolina’s Colite International, I know the importance of global trade to the success of our business. Like many homegrown…
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The next financial crisis?
June 29, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson A central economic question of our time is whether the policies undertaken to recover from the last financial crisis are laying the groundwork for the next.…
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The next financial crisis?
June 29, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson A central economic question of our time is whether the policies undertaken to recover from the last financial crisis are laying the groundwork for the next.…
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