Robert J. Samuelson

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Obama’s Malpractice
Why the health-care bill isn't reform.
November 14, 2009

There is an air of absurdity to what is mistakenly called "health-care reform." Everyone knows that the United States faces massive governmental budget deficits as far as calculators can project, driven heavily by an aging population and uncontrolled health costs. Recovering slowly from a devastating recession, it's widely agreed that, though deficits should not be cut abruptly (lest the economy resume its slump), a prudent society would embark on long-term policies to control health costs, reduce government spending, and curb massive future deficits. The president and his top economic advisers all say this. ( Click here to follow Robert J. Samuelson  ).

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The Next Economic Bubble
Will low interest rates backfire sooner than anyone thinks?
November 9, 2009
Up Against a Wall of Debt, Part II
Are the United States, Japan, Great Britain, and other first-world nations in danger of defaulting on their debt?
November 6, 2009
Up Against a Wall of Debt
How much can governments borrow?
October 29, 2009
Public Plan Mirage
It pretends to control costs and improve access when it doesn't.
October 26, 2009
Restarting the Job Machine
Why Stimulus 2.0 might backfire.
October 16, 2009
A Path to Downward Mobility
Today's youngest Americans are likely to be worse off than their parents.
October 13, 2009
The Great Escape
How we narrowly avoided a depression.
October 3, 2009
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Cover Story
A Darker Future For Us
It's not just the financial crisis: higher taxes, energy costs and health spending also threaten growth.
November 1, 2008
Cover Story
Bottom Dollar
THE GREENBACK'S FALL IS STOKING FEARS OF A GLOBAL CRISIS. BEHIND THE SLIDE: A WORLD ECONOMY WILDLY OUT OF BALANCE.
March 21, 2005
Cover Story
How Our American Dream Unraveled
After World War Ii, We Believed That Prosperity Would Create The Ultimate Good Society. We Were Wrong.
March 2, 1992
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Will Recovery Go Global?

open quoteBefore we get too giddy about any U.S. economic "recovery," we should remember that the preceding collapse was global. No recovery can succeed unless it, too, is global. Will that happen?
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