List/Grid Author Archives: Robert J. Samuelson / Syndicated Columnist
Will Cyprus spell trouble for EU?
WASHINGTON — Logically, what happens in Cyprus should stay in Cyprus. With a population of jus ...
Budget approaches protect elderly, ignore young
"The president is in the midst of a charm offensive." - The Washington Post, Re: Pr ...
Prognosticators disagree on stocks
WASHINGTON — Where's the stock market going? Has a bull market started? Or are we on the ...
Volatile stock market holds on to its strong allure
WASHINGTON — We now know the promise and peril of paper wealth. In the last 15 years, the stoc ...
Sequester actually JFK’s fault
WASHINGTON - Blame it on JFK. Fifty years ago, President Kennedy made a decision that, with hin ...
True debt bigger than you think
WASHINGTON - How big is the national debt? You'd think this would be an easy question. Su ...
Obama makes S&P scapegoat for the recession
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's suit against the rating agency Standard & Po ...
Obama’s Actions Won’t Be Considered ‘Historic’
WASHINGTON — The "legacy thing" may be harder than Barack Obama imagines. &n ...
Americans Lag in Health, But We Won’t Admit It
WASHINGTON — It turns out that being American is bad for your health, relatively speaking. &n ...
U.S. Literally Grows Its Deficit
WASHINGTON - Symbolic of the debate we're not having about government's size and ro ...
Globalism on the Decline in 2013
WASHINGTON - One fateful question for 2013 is this: What happens to globalization? For decades ...
Let’s Look to 1986 Tax Reform
WASHINGTON — The story behind the story is that "tax reform," as we know it, is dy ...
