Robert Samuelson January 16, 2014
January 20, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 16, 2014 This minimum wage business is tricky. On its face, raising the wage seems an easy way to fight poverty. Just pay low-wage workers…
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Robert Samuelson January 19, 2014
January 20, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 19, 2014 The baffling Bitcoin boom is either an exercise in self-delusion — a high-tech Ponzi scheme that will come crashing down — or an imaginative new…
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Robert Samuelson January 12, 2014
January 14, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 12, 2014 We are awash in retrospectives of the War on Poverty, launched 50 years ago this month by Lyndon Johnson. A furious debate has developed…
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Kathleen Parker January 14, 2014
January 14, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 14, 2014 As we evaluate the efficacy of the War on Poverty, a single, unquantifiable factor stubbornly demands attention: luck. When it comes to the fortunes of the…
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Robert Samuelson January 12, 2014
January 14, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 12, 2014 We are awash in retrospectives of the War on Poverty, launched 50 years ago this month by Lyndon Johnson. A furious debatehas developed between…
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Robert Samuelson January 8, 2014
January 13, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 8, 2014 Call it the $2.8 trillion enigma. That’s the amount Americans spenton health care in 2012. The good news is that health spending slowed…
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Kathleen Parker January 10, 2014
January 13, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 10, 2014 In the days since revelations surfaced about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s office orchestrating the now-infamous George Washington Bridge lane closings, I’ve had at least…
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Robert Samuelson January 8, 2014
January 13, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 8, 2014 Call it the $2.8 trillion enigma. That’s the amount Americans spenton health care in 2012. The good news is that health spending slowed…
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Robert Samuelson January 5, 2014
January 7, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 5, 2014 There is more than a little hypocrisy to the outcry that thegovernment, through the National Security Agency (NSA), issystematically destroying Americans’ right to…
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Kathleen Parker January 3, 2014
January 7, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 4, 2014 If you happen to be one of those who enjoy politics as a blood sport, 2014’s midterm election promises to be a carnival of gore.…
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Kathleen Parker January 7, 2014
January 7, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 7, 2014 In politics, it’s all in how you say things. George Orwell knew what he was talking about when he described political language as “designed to…
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Robert Samuelson January 5, 2014
January 7, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 5, 2014 There is more than a little hypocrisy to the outcry that thegovernment, through the National Security Agency (NSA), issystematically destroying Americans’ right to…
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Robert Samuelson December 30, 2013
January 1, 2014By Robert Samuelson December 30, 2013 For four and a half years, we have waited for a powerful andself-sustaining economic recovery. More than once it seemed imminent.Then, for various…
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Kathleen Parker December 24, 2013
January 1, 2014By Kathleen ParkerDecember 24, 2013 It’s Christmas and a strange white-bearded fellow utteringquack-quack-quack has streaked across the continent, dumping a largesack of something on America’s hearth. Phil Robertson — millionaire…
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Robert Samuelson December 30, 2013
January 1, 2014By Robert Samuelson December 30, 2013 For four and a half years, we have waited for a powerful andself-sustaining economic recovery. More than once it seemed imminent.Then, for various…
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Kathleen Parker December 27, 2013
January 1, 2014By Kathleen ParkerDecember 27, 2013 The year-end review required of all columnists inevitably brings us to the mailbag and a few clarifications. For the record, I read my mail but…
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Kathleen Parker December 31, 2013
January 1, 2014By Kathleen ParkerDecember 31, 2013 America’s capacity for optimism and hope has been boundless through much of our short history. The tangible returns of hard work, the ordered liberty sustainedthrough…
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Robert Samuelson December 22, 2013
December 23, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 22, 2013 The Fed turns 100 Monday. A century ago — on Dec. 23, 1913 — President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation establishing the Federal Reserve.…
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Robert Samuelson December 22, 2013
December 23, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 22, 2013 The Fed turns 100 Monday. A century ago — on Dec. 23, 1913 — President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation establishing the Federal Reserve.…
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Robert Samuelson December 18, 2013
December 18, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 18, 2013 We may be witnessing the last gasp of early retirement — not just inthe United States but in many industrialized countries. Considering thehigh…
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Robert Samuelson December 18, 2013
December 18, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 18, 2013 We may be witnessing the last gasp of early retirement — not just inthe United States but in many industrialized countries. Considering thehigh…
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Kathleen Parker December 18, 2013
December 18, 2013By Kathleen ParkerDecember 18, 2013 When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer. And a penguin? In case you missed the most…
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Robert Samuelson December 15, 2013
December 16, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 15, 2013 The budget package crafted by Democratic Sen. Patty Murray andRepublican Rep. Paul Ryan — heads of the Senate and House BudgetCommittees —…
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Robert Samuelson December 15, 2013
December 16, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 15, 2013 The budget package crafted by Democratic Sen. Patty Murray andRepublican Rep. Paul Ryan — heads of the Senate and House BudgetCommittees —…
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Kathleen Parker December 13, 2013
December 16, 2013By Kathleen ParkerDecember 13, 2013 ’Tis the season, and Nancy Pelosi has given the hands-down best gift to the American people — her phrase “Embrace the suck.” Miraculous. Offered…
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Kathleen Parker December 10, 2013
December 11, 2013By Kathleen ParkerDecember 10, 2013 Make a woman laugh, Marilyn Monroe supposedly said, and you can make her do anything. Judging from the women who fell for him, Woody…
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Robert Samuelson December 8, 2013
December 11, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 8, 2013 We are locked in a generational war, which will get worse before it getsbetter. Indeed, it may not get better for a…
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Robert Samuelson December 8, 2013
December 11, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 8, 2013 We are locked in a generational war, which will get worse before it gets better. Indeed, it may not get better for…
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Robert Samuelson December 11, 2013
December 11, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 11, 2013 In America’s health-care dialogue, emergency rooms have come to symbolize the system’s economic and medical defects. To critics, typical ERs are swamped…
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Robert Samuelson December 11, 2013
December 11, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 11, 2013 In America’s health-care dialogue, emergency rooms have come to symbolizethe system’s economic and medical defects. To critics, typical ERs areswamped by the…
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Robert Samuelson December 4, 2013
December 8, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 4, 2013 The question about the stock market is whether the bull is a bubble.The 1990s’ “tech bubble” and the recent “housing bubble” haveconditioned…
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Kathleen Parker December 6, 2013
December 8, 2013By Kathleen ParkerDecember 6, 2013 We have reached a new level of political absurdity when the right ismad at the pope and the left wants to anoint his head…
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Robert Samuelson December 1, 2013
December 4, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 1, 2013 Among our problems is a failure of economic language. We lack thewords and concepts to describe observable reality. By conventionalwisdom, the Great…
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Kathleen Parker December 3, 2013
December 4, 2013By Kathleen ParkerDecember 3, 2013 As the government health-care Web site chugs along, the Obama administration has begun a counter-initiative to combatRepublican naysaying — and its weapons are of…
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Kathleen Parker November 30, 2013
December 1, 2013By Kathleen ParkerNovember 30, 2013 If you peruse the news on any given day, the farm bill/food stamp debate produces two general impressions: Republicans are heartless turkeythieves; Democrats are…
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Robert Samuelson November 26, 2013
December 1, 2013By Robert Samuelson November 26, 2013 President Obama’s broken promise that people can keep their existinghealth insurance is much larger than we’ve been led to believe. Untilnow, attention has…
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Kathleen Parker November 22, 2013
November 24, 2013By Kathleen ParkerNovember 22, 2013 By now, most of the world has digested the 50th anniversary of JohnF. Kennedy’s assassination, and millennials can sigh relief that another such re-examination…
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Robert Samuelson November 25, 2013
November 24, 2013By Robert Samuelson November 25, 2013 It has been only a few years since China was widely regarded as anunstoppable economic colossus. For three decades, its economy grew…
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Kathleen Parker November 19, 2013
November 20, 2013By Kathleen ParkerNovember 19, 2013 Meet Simile and Sui Generis. Simile, to refresh memories, is a favorite rhetorical device ofwriters that compares two essentially unlike things that nonethelesshave similar…
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Robert Samuelson November 19, 2013
November 20, 2013By Robert Samuelson November 19, 2013 How often have you heard that we have the best government money canbuy? Washington is overrun, it’s said, with fat-cat lobbyists whoselavish campaign…
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Robert Samuelson November 18, 2013
November 18, 2013By Robert Samuelson November 18, 2013 Economist Robert Pindyck of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently examined thecomputer models that estimate the effects and costs of climate change…
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Kathleen Parker November 15, 2013
November 17, 2013By Kathleen ParkerNovember 15, 2013 Let’s recap: If you like your insurance policy, you can keep it. No,wait. If you liked your policy, it was probably worthless anyway.Scratch that.…
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Kathleen Parker November 12, 2013
November 13, 2013By Kathleen ParkerNovember 12, 2013 In spite of everything — the GOP’s internal scrimmages, thegovernment shutdown, the party’s transparent attempts to derailObamacare — Republicans keep getting second chances. The question…
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Robert Samuelson November 12, 2013
November 13, 2013By Robert Samuelson November 12, 2013 For President Obama, the one “must read” from the latest Sundaypapers is an essay in The Post by Jon Kingsdale, who ran…
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Robert Samuelson November 10, 2013
November 11, 2013By Robert Samuelson November 10, 2013 It’s not about him. It’s about us. As the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassinationapproaches, we’ve been deluged with essays, books,…
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Kathleen Parker November 8, 2013
November 11, 2013By Kathleen ParkerNovember 8, 2013 President Obama is no lip-biting, tear-streaked, chin-trembling apologist. When he said Thursday that he was sorry for the health-care mess-up, he performed the…
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Robert Samuelson November 3, 2013
November 6, 2013By Robert Samuelson November 3, 2013 “Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts.” — Henry Rosovsky, Harvard economic historian Two analysts at the Federal Reserve…
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Robert Samuelson November 6, 2013
November 6, 2013By Robert Samuelson November 6, 2013 By now, it’s obvious that the economic crisis is evolving intosomething bigger and, possibly, more ominous. The aftershock of thefinancial collapse and…
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Kathleen Parker November 5, 2013
November 6, 2013By Kathleen ParkerNovember 5, 2013 Among the many rules I grew up with, two stand out. The first was tonever call someone a liar, which was considered the…
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Kathleen Parker November 1, 2013
November 3, 2013By Kathleen ParkerNovember 1, 2013 Ms. Know-It-All, the anonymous political advice columnist whoseidentity remains a popular Georgetown cocktail party guessing game, isknown to live up to her title…
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