Obama’s spiteful legacy
November 16, 2014By Kathleen Parker Post-election analysis falls somewhere between amusing and clueless. In the amusing camp are Democratic strategists who intone that more Democrats would have won if only more people…
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The Fed’s bond buying enigma
November 10, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson The Federal Reserve has ended its roughly $3.7 trillion program of bond buying, leaving in its wake a host of hard questions. Did it strengthen the economic recovery?…
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Is employers’ prejudice against pay cuts causing wage stagnation?
November 10, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson I recently wrote about sluggish and stagnant wages, which are said to weaken the economy’s recovery. I argued that workers’ fear of losing their jobs is an important…
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Lena Dunham’s bare, naked truth
November 10, 2014By Kathleen Parker Lena Dunham, the creator of the sensational HBO series “Girls” — and now the object of overwrought child abuse accusations by boys on the right — seems the…
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How will Europe’s economy escape the doldrums?
November 5, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson Can Mario Draghi save Europe? Draghi heads the European Central Bank, the continental equivalent of the Federal Reserve. The fact that the question is being asked…
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How will Europe’s economy escape the doldrums?
November 5, 2014By Robert J. Samuelson Can Mario Draghi save Europe? Draghi heads the European Central Bank, the continental equivalent of the Federal Reserve. The fact that the question is being asked…
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A Vote for Education is Critical in South Carolina
November 2, 2014
By Kara Kerwin In a state where just 31 percent of eighth graders are proficient in math and 29 percent are proficient in reading according to national assessments, education…
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A Vote for Education is Critical in South Carolina
November 2, 2014
By Kara Kerwin In a state where just 31 percent of eighth graders are proficient in math and 29 percent are proficient in reading according to national assessments, education…
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What’s behind wage stagnation?
October 29, 2014By Robert J. Samuelson If you believe in the law of supply and demand — and I do — there’s not much mystery to the stagnation of wages even though…
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What’s behind wage stagnation?
October 29, 2014By Robert J. Samuelson If you believe in the law of supply and demand — and I do — there’s not much mystery to the stagnation of wages even though…
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America’s political pendulum swings to the right
October 29, 2014By Kathleen Parker To paraphrase Roger Miller — and, indeed, to reveal my vast store of musical trivia — America swings like a pendulum do. If projections, human nature and historical…
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America’s political pendulum swings to the right
October 29, 2014By Kathleen Parker To paraphrase Roger Miller — and, indeed, to reveal my vast store of musical trivia — America swings like a pendulum do. If projections, human nature and historical…
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America’s political pendulum swings to the right
October 29, 2014By Kathleen Parker To paraphrase Roger Miller — and, indeed, to reveal my vast store of musical trivia — America swings like a pendulum do. If projections, human nature and historical…
Read MorePosted in: lowcountrybizsc, midlandsbiz, upstatebizsc Category: op-ed
What’s behind wage stagnation?
October 29, 2014By Robert J. Samuelson If you believe in the law of supply and demand — and I do — there’s not much mystery to the stagnation of wages even though…
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The family deficit
October 27, 2014By Robert J. Samuelson We Americans believe in progress, and yet progress is often a double-edged sword. The benefits and adventures of change often vie with the shortcomings and…
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The family deficit
October 27, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson We Americans believe in progress, and yet progress is often a double-edged sword. The benefits and adventures of change often vie with the shortcomings and…
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The millionaire’s club expands
October 27, 2014By Robert J. Samuelson The millionaire’s club isn’t what it used to be. Time was that “being a millionaire” was a mark of unimaginable success. You’d joined the financial elite.…
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The millionaire’s club expands
October 27, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson The millionaire’s club isn’t what it used to be. Time was that “being a millionaire” was a mark of unimaginable success. You’d joined the financial elite.…
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Stock market turmoil and the global debt trap
October 22, 2014By Robert J. Samuelson Six years after the onset of the financial crisis, the world still has too much debt. The total in 2013, according to the McKinsey Global Institute,…
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Stock market turmoil and the global debt trap
October 22, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson Six years after the onset of the financial crisis, the world still has too much debt. The total in 2013, according to the McKinsey Global Institute,…
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Bears and wolves find a voice in the wilderness
October 22, 2014By Kathleen Parker If politicians preying upon your attentions this season fail to inspire, you might seek common cause with the beasts — the four-legged variety rather than those…
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Bears and wolves find a voice in the wilderness
October 22, 2014By Kathleen Parker If politicians preying upon your attentions this season fail to inspire, you might seek common cause with the beasts — the four-legged variety rather than those…
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A little Ebola panic might be helpful
October 20, 2014By Kathleen Parker Now, now, let’s not panic.Yes, we have a second health-care worker infected with Ebola after treating the Liberian man who apparently concealed his exposure to this often-fatal disease,…
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A little Ebola panic might be helpful
October 20, 2014By Kathleen Parker Now, now, let’s not panic.Yes, we have a second health-care worker infected with Ebola after treating the Liberian man who apparently concealed his exposure to this often-fatal disease,…
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Women join the top 1 percent
October 15, 2014By Robert J. Samuelson Everyone knows that economic inequality has increased dramatically since the 1970s, and this has created a new cottage industry: dissecting “the top 1 percent.” We…
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Women join the top 1 percent
October 15, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson Everyone knows that economic inequality has increased dramatically since the 1970s, and this has created a new cottage industry: dissecting “the top 1 percent.” We…
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Alison Grimes and the unanswered question on Obama
October 15, 2014By Kathleen Parker So unpopular is President Obama these days that the (D) following Democratic candidates’ names might stand for Denial. And, so desperate are political pundits for any…
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Alison Grimes and the unanswered question on Obama
October 15, 2014By Kathleen Parker So unpopular is President Obama these days that the (D) following Democratic candidates’ names might stand for Denial. And, so desperate are political pundits for any…
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Why the world economy sputters
October 13, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson It’s become a dreary ritual: Every six months, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts the global economy — and cuts its previous forecast. Despite an…
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Why the world economy sputters
October 13, 2014By Robert J. Samuelson It’s become a dreary ritual: Every six months, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts the global economy — and cuts its previous forecast. Despite an…
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Humanity is actually making progress, believe it or not
October 13, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson Progress has lately gotten a bad rap, because there seems to be so little of it. Violence wracks the Middle East; economies are sputtering; Ebola…
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Humanity is actually making progress, believe it or not
October 13, 2014By Robert J. Samuelson Progress has lately gotten a bad rap, because there seems to be so little of it. Violence wracks the Middle East; economies are sputtering; Ebola…
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The Plain Facts About the Lexington County Penny
October 9, 2014By Tiffany Boyce-Heitzman It’s a shame that the opponents of the Lexington County “Penny for Pavement” continue to intentionally confuse the voters about the proposed one penny capital projects…
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President Obama’s remarkable dispassion
October 8, 2014By Kathleen Parker Words have a way of seeping into our vocabulary and, through overuse or distortion, soon beginning to lose their meaning. Who could have imagined that the…
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President Obama’s remarkable dispassion
October 8, 2014By Kathleen Parker Words have a way of seeping into our vocabulary and, through overuse or distortion, soon beginning to lose their meaning. Who could have imagined that the…
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The new era of muddle-nomics
October 6, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson I have been reading Martin Wolf’s “The Shifts and the Shocks,” a detailed analysis of the 2008-2009 financial crisis and its aftermath. Wolf is the…
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The Lehman Brothers lesson, five years later
October 6, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson The New York Times had a fascinating story the other day, which again raises a crucial historical question about the financial crisis: Did Lehman Brothers have to…
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The silly, selective ‘war on women’
October 1, 2014By Kathleen Parker It has long been accepted by the conventionally wise that the Republican Party is waging a “war on women.” Let’s be clear. The war on women…
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The logic in exporting U.S. oil
September 29, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson One of the economy’s good-news stories is the oil boom, a derivative of the natural gas boom. When the drilling techniques used to tap vast…
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The Alibaba moment
September 29, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson Alibaba, China’s giant e-commerce firm, is a harbinger. We are going to see more Chinese firms venturing onto the world stage. The most ambitious are…
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Export-Import bank means business for our region
September 24, 2014
By John Lummus The Upstate’s economy is closely connected to the global economy. This is a real strength for our region and gives us more resilience in weathering economic…
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The next (nasty) economic surprise?
September 24, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson We live in the shadow of “secular stagnation,” to use a phrase now fashionable among economists. Even assuming a full recovery from the Great Recession, it’s…
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Cry, your car’s on hidden camera
September 24, 2014By Kathleen Parker Without prior knowledge or intent, I recently was inducted into a club I had no interest in joining, especially in light of the $200 initiation fee.…
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America’s B-minus economy
September 21, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson The Census Bureau has just released its 2013 edition of “Income and Poverty in the United States,” sometimes called the nation’s “economic report card.” It depicts…
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Mark Sanford’s pathetic saga with himself
September 21, 2014By Kathleen Parker As a South Carolinian, it falls to me to examine the peculiarities afflicting our former governor and now-congressman Mark Sanford, who, contrary to decorum and taste,…
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George Will: Scotland’s epic vote on independence from the United Kingdom
September 15, 2014
By George F. Will Tucking into a dish of Scottish haggis is not a task for the fainthearted. There are various haggis recipes, but basically it is sheep’s pluck…
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George Will: Senate Democrats’ extremism on display
September 15, 2014
By George F. Will Since Barry Goldwater, in accepting the Republicans’ 1964 presidential nomination, said, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice,” Democrats have been decrying Republican…
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The roughed-up American
September 15, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson America’s economy is improving, but the public mood is a lagging indicator. A Pew poll in late August found that Americans recognize that the job market has…
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Curb your enthusiasm about those Medicare savings
September 15, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson Contrary to some media reports, the Medicare monster hasn’t been tamed. But it has been made a little less unruly. To be precise: Spending is…
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Has NATO lost its will as well as its muscle?
September 8, 2014
By George F. Will Speaking on Aug. 29 — at a fundraiser, of course — Barack Obama applied to a platitude the varnish of smartphone sociology, producing thisintellectual sunburst: “The…
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