Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
From our January issue, economist Robert J. Samuelson explains how Paul Volcker and Ronald Reagan's forgotten miracle created a quarter century of prosperity—and a dangerous bubble of complacency. Read all about it here.
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 13/12/2008
For the past quarter-century, Robert J. Samuelson has written about business, politics, and economics for The Washington Post and Newsweek . His masterful and eminently readable new book, The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence , may just be the most important non-fiction volume published this year-or next year, for that matter. Certainly, in...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
For the past quarter-century, Robert J. Samuelson has written about business, politics, and economics for The Washington Post and Newsweek . His masterful and eminently readable new book, The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence , may just be the most important non-fiction volume published this year-or next year, for that matter. Certainly, in...
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Robert J. Samuelson on the many economic challenges facing Obama: The temptation will be to press ahead with a 'bold' legislative agenda - to ape the New Deal. This would be a mistake. The psychology of bruising legislative battles will...
Concurring Opinions (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
As Obama, Volker, Summers, and Geithner prepare to ride into Washington to save us all with a stimulus package, Robert J. Samuelson provides a dose of reality in today's Washington Post. He writes: The present crisis represents a fundamental break...
Three Wise Men (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008
Wherein income in our nation is redistributed from suckers like you and me, to the wealthy (via Kevin Drum .) Or to be more precise, Ezra Klein takes issue with Washington Post pundit Robert J. Samuelson's claim that the wealthy pay a burdeonsome twenty-eight percent of all federal taxes: You often hear conservatives argue that the rich pay a larger percentage of national taxes than they did in the...
Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
Robert J. Samuelson turns the stupid up to 11. A second myth is that lobbying favors the wealthy, including corporations, because only they can afford the cost. As a result, government favors the rich and ignores the poor and middle class. Actually, the facts contradict that. Sure, the wealthy extract privileges from government, but mainly they’re [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 21/12/2008
... heady combination. Ben BernankeJean-Claude Trichet and Masaaki Shirakawa. Contributing Editor Robert J. Samuelson explores why central bankers Bernanke, Trichet and Shirakawa will likely decide the fate of the global economy next year. Vladimir Putin. Russia's leader talks a big game and has the military to back it up, but faces a softening economy as oil prices plummet. Ayatollah...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 21/12/2008
... heady combination. Ben BernankeJean-Claude Trichet and Masaaki Shirakawa. Contributing Editor Robert J. Samuelson explores why central bankers Bernanke, Trichet and Shirakawa will likely decide the fate of the global economy next year. Vladimir Putin. Russia's leader talks a big game and has the military to back it up, but faces a softening economy as oil prices plummet. Ayatollah...
ChooseTheHero.com (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
... democracy in action ” and as American as apple pie, dashikis and bailouts. According to Newsweek’s Robert J. Samuelson, if you are down on lobbyists, why, heck, you’re down on America itself! This is, of course, quite a different attitude than Newsweek took when using its pages to beat down John McCain. In September, connections with lobbyists were enough to bring down a presidential...
Red State (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
... democracy in action ” and as American as apple pie, dashikis and bailouts. According to Newsweek’s Robert J. Samuelson, if you are down on lobbyists, why, heck, you’re down on America itself! This is, of course, quite a different attitude than Newsweek took when using its pages to beat down John McCain. In September, connections with lobbyists were enough to bring down a presidential...
Stop the ACLU (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
... democracy in action ” and as American as apple pie, dashikis and bailouts. According to Newsweek’s Robert J. Samuelson, if you are down on lobbyists, why, heck, you’re down on America itself! This is, of course, quite a different attitude than Newsweek took when using its pages to beat down John McCain. In September, connections with lobbyists were enough to bring down a presidential...
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
... democracy in action ” and as American as apple pie, dashikis and bailouts. According to Newsweek’s Robert J. Samuelson, if you are down on lobbyists, why, heck, you’re down on America itself! This is, of course, quite a different attitude than Newsweek took when using its pages to beat down John McCain. In September, connections with lobbyists were enough to bring down a presidential...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 16/12/2008
... politics and other subjects, all done in his own inimitable style.Another economist and columnist, Robert J. Samuelson of Newsweek, also published a new book this year — one focused on a topic that is likely to be of growing interest and growing concern in the years ahead. Its title is .It is an account of how the American economy went from price stability in the 1950s to the beginning...
Hobnob Blog (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
Don't Forget to Eat Meat While You Read! "How many cows do you have?" Findings slow to come in Woodburn bank blast probe Dismal science? Not by a hoot Chinese Electrical Output Fell 9.6% in November (Plus Possible False Positive on Shipping Front) Escapee Tells of Horrors in North Korean Prison Camp GSEs to Let Renters Stay after Foreclosure Robert J. Samuelson on The Great Inflation...
