List/Grid Author Archives: Robert J. Samuelson / Syndicated Columnist
So Far, Stimulus Is Not Economy’s Magic Cure
WASHINGTON - We are reaching - or may already have passed - the practical limits of & ...
Middle Class’ Demise Exaggerated
WASHINGTON - Republicans and Democrats don't agree on much, but they do agree on this: th ...
Can’t Larry Summers do better?
WASHINGTON — Larry Summers knows better. In a column in the Washington Post and Financial Times, the Treasury secretary under President Clinton and former adviser to President Obama, shows why... Read more »
Vouchers Might Save Medicare
WASHINGTON - Overlooked in the furor surrounding Paul Ryan's Medicare proposal - a p ...
Elderly Impede Any Budget Solution
WASHINGTON - Judging by the political reaction, you'd think that Paul Ryan's budget ...
America’s Protected Class
WASHINGTON — Judging by the political reaction, you’d think that Paul Ryan’s budget takes a meat ax to Medicare and threatens economic havoc for the elderly. Just the opposite is... Read more »
Campaign on Anything But Issues
WASHINGTON - I admit it: I hate this campaign. There is no moral high ground. President Obama a ...
Young Likely Losers in the Generational Divide
WASHINGTON - I worry about the future - not mine but that of my three children, all in the ...
Generation Squeezed
WASHINGTON — I worry about the future — not mine but that of my three children, all in their 20s. It is an axiom of American folklore that every generation... Read more »
Policing Use Controls Health Costs
WASHINGTON - Advances in medical technology are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they hav ...
Pessimism Keeps Economy in Precarious Spot
WASHINGTON - It is an index of fear. Last week, interest rates on 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds f ...
Taming high-tech health costs
WASHINGTON — Advances in medical technology are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they have brought huge health gains to millions of Americans. Hip and knee replacements, heart operations,... Read more »
