Robert J. Samuelson Newsletter
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Letters to the Editor: Are modern cars too complex and screen-heavy to be driven safely?
07 Apr 2024 10:54 GMT
… you safely to your destination.
Robert Samuelson, Marina del Rey
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To the …
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Robert J. Samuelson column: Has the next bubble arrived?
04 Apr 2019 05:17 GMT
… with what consequences. Stay tuned.
Robert J. Samuelson is a columnist with the …
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Robert J. Samuelson: Legacies of the financial crisis
13 Sep 2018 00:38 GMT
By Robert J. Samuelson
Washington Post
Ten years after …
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Robert J. Samuelson: Handicapping the next financial crisis
06 Sep 2018 02:32 GMT
By Robert J. Samuelson
Washington Post
The news is …
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Robert J. Samuelson: The Economist magazine looks toward Liberalism 3.0
24 Sep 2018 00:40 GMT
The Economist magazine is marking its 175th birthday with a special issue that looks back on its history and speculates about the future. It is a sobering exercise, highlighting the present breakdown in the world’s political order, a collapse made worse by …
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Robert J. Samuelson: Warning from the almost-depression
16 Sep 2018 23:16 GMT
All during the 2008-09 financial crisis, Americans were told that the government was saving Wall Street not to protect overpaid bankers but to help Main Street avoid a second Great Depression. It was a hard case to make. However valid the logic, it was …
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Robert J. Samuelson: Why Americans don’t prepare for the future
10 Sep 2018 00:30 GMT
Does America adapt by crisis or consensus? Do we spontaneously change because we see we must, or must we be coerced by events that leave us no choice?
— “The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement”
That’s what I wrote …
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Robert J. Samuelson: Health care rules the labor market
03 Sep 2018 00:45 GMT
It’s wages vs. health benefits. On this Labor Day, just about everything seems to be going right for typical American workers, with the glaring and puzzling exception of wage stagnation. The unemployment rate is 3.9 percent, near its lowest since 2000. The …
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Robert J. Samuelson: NAFTA is dead — long live NAFTA
30 Aug 2018 00:24 GMT
When the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect in 1994, it was widely regarded — by friend and foe alike — as an ambitious experiment in economic engineering. To advocates, it promised the benefits of stronger economic growth for its three member …
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Robert J. Samuelson: The coming welfare wars
19 Jul 2018 01:39 GMT
By Robert J. Samuelson
Washington Post
The Trump administration …