Robert J. Samuelson
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Robert J. Samuelson is a weekly columnist for The Post, writing on political, economic and social issues. His column usually appears on Wednesdays.
Samuelson joined The Post on the business desk in 1969. After four years he left the paper to free-lance, and his articles were published by the Sunday Times of London, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic and other publications. He became an economic reporter in 1976 for National Journal, where he began a weekly column. The Post started running the column in 1977. In 1984, Samuelson left National Journal and became a columnist for Newsweek. He is the author of “Untruth: Why the Conventional Wisdom is (Almost Always) Wrong” (2001), a collection of his columns, and “The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement, 1945-1995” (1995).
Samuelson’s awards include: The National Headliner Award for Consistently Outstanding Column on One Subject in 1995, 1993, 1992 and 1987; a 1993 John Hancock Award for Best Business and Financial Columnist; The Gerald Loeb Award for Best Commentary in 1993, 1986 and 1983; a Clarion Award for Best Magazine Editorial/Opinion Column from Women in Communications in 1994; and a 1981 National Magazine Award.
Articles by Robert J. Samuelson
Both Corporate, Public Welfare Are Endangered (June 22, 2009)
Wrong Way on Health 'Reform' (June 15, 2009)
Deflation or Inflation? (June 8, 2009)
The Media's Infatuation With President Obama (June 1, 2009)
The Financial Crisis and the Great Depression (April 20, 2009)
Obama's 'Post-Material' Economy (April 13, 2009)
China's Dollar Deception (April 6, 2009)
Geithner's Rescue Plan Carries Risks (March 30, 2009)
American Capitalism at Ebb Tide (March 23, 2009)
The Shadow of Depression (March 16, 2009)
President Obama's Double Talk (March 9, 2009)
Getting Home Buyers Off the Sidelines (March 2, 2009)
Obama's Stunted Economic Stimulus (February 23, 2009)
A Lost Decade for the U.S. Economy? (February 16, 2009)
Beyond Banker Bashing (February 9, 2009)
The Obama Stimulus: Too Little Bang for the Bucks (February 2, 2009)
Three Economic Crises in One (January 26, 2009)
Obama's Health-Care Headache (January 12, 2009)
Stimulus Equals Stopgap (January 5, 2009)
The Crash in Conventional Wisdom (December 29, 2008)
In the Hands of the Central Bankers (December 22, 2008)
Lobbying Is Democracy in Action (December 15, 2008)
Ben Bernanke's Daring Experiment (December 8, 2008)
The Economy Must Be Obama's First Project (December 1, 2008)
The Reverse Wealth Effect (November 25, 2008)
Robert J. Samuelson: How to Bail Out General Motors (November 17, 2008)
A New Specter: Deflation (November 10, 2008)
As the Rich Get Poorer (November 5, 2008)
Stimulus For the Long Haul (October 29, 2008)
Young Voters, Get Mad (October 22, 2008)
In Good Times and Bad (October 20, 2008)
The Engine of Mayhem (October 13, 2008)
Is It 1929 Again? (October 6, 2008)
Bankrupt Economics (September 29, 2008)
What's the True Cost? (September 25, 2008)
Paulson's Panic (September 24, 2008)
The Confidence Game (September 22, 2008)
Wall Street's Unraveling (September 17, 2008)
Health-Care Realism (September 10, 2008)
The Real Economic Scorecard (September 3, 2008)
The Rise Of Fantasy Politics (August 27, 2008)
The Real China Threat (August 20, 2008)
The Great Energy Confusion (August 13, 2008)
Political Perils of a 'Big Sort'? (August 6, 2008)
The Homeownership Obsession (July 30, 2008)
A Depression? Hardly (July 23, 2008)
A Baffling Global Economy (July 16, 2008)
The Candor Gap (July 9, 2008)
Who's Behind High Prices (July 1, 2008)
The Return of Inflation? (June 24, 2008)
Learning From the Oil Shock (June 18, 2008)
A Vote for McBama (June 11, 2008)
Just Call It 'Cap-and-Tax' (June 2, 2008)
Rx for Global Poverty (May 28, 2008)
Middle Class Jitters (May 22, 2008)
Truth Serum on The Trail (May 14, 2008)
Sensible Stimulus (May 7, 2008)
Start Drilling (April 30, 2008)
The End of Shopping (April 23, 2008)
Marching Backward On Trade (April 16, 2008)
High Finance Laid Low (April 9, 2008)
How Not To Save Housing (April 2, 2008)
Hold the Hysteria (For Now) (March 26, 2008)
How This Crisis Is Different (March 18, 2008)
OPEC's Triumph (March 12, 2008)
The Housing Fix (March 5, 2008)
The Specter of Stagflation (February 27, 2008)
The Obama Delusion (February 20, 2008)
The $3 Trillion Cop-Out (February 13, 2008)
Why It's Not The Economy (February 6, 2008)
The Fed In the Echo Chamber (January 29, 2008)
Capitalism's Enemies Within (January 23, 2008)
Lollipop Economics (January 16, 2008)
Promises They Can't Keep (January 9, 2008)
'House Lust' Hits Home (January 2, 2008)
The End of Free Trade (December 26, 2007)
Another Credit Minefield (December 19, 2007)
Food vs. Fuel (December 12, 2007)
Rx for Health Care: Pain (December 6, 2007)
The Impossible Dream (November 28, 2007)
'Crunch' Time For the GOP (November 21, 2007)
Geopolitics At $100 A Barrel (November 14, 2007)
Recession's Hidden Virtues (November 7, 2007)
The Global Poverty Trap (October 31, 2007)
A Villain To Our Rescue (October 24, 2007)
Ambitious to a Fault (October 18, 2007)
Lessons From the '87 Crash (October 10, 2007)
Escaping the Budget Impasse (October 3, 2007)
Bernanke Takes The Reins (September 25, 2007)
Greenspan's Age of Tranquility (September 19, 2007)
A Bumper Crop of Inertia (September 12, 2007)
Importing Poverty (September 5, 2007)
The Economic Catch-22 (August 29, 2007)
Is the Boom in Peril? (August 22, 2007)
Global Warming Simplicities (August 15, 2007)
Masters of the Economy (August 8, 2007)
Making the Think Tanks Think (August 1, 2007)
Prius Politics (July 25, 2007)
Farewell, Comma, He Said (July 18, 2007)
The Bliss We Can't Buy (July 11, 2007)
Unfree Speech (July 4, 2007)
A College Course in Cynicism (June 27, 2007)
A Quiet Revolution In Money (June 21, 2007)
The End Of Cheap Credit? (June 13, 2007)
The Equality Quagmire (June 6, 2007)
A Full Tank of Hypocrisy (May 30, 2007)
What Offshoring Wave? (May 16, 2007)
China's Trade Time Bomb (May 9, 2007)
Seeking Sense on Immigration (May 2, 2007)
The Rich and the Rest (April 18, 2007)
Boomer Boomerang (April 11, 2007)
Priority for The Fed: Inflation (April 4, 2007)
Beyond the Subprime Debacle (March 28, 2007)
Hollywood's Climate Follies (March 21, 2007)
The Private Equity Boom (March 15, 2007)
A Costly Case of Market Jitters (March 7, 2007)
A $2 Trillion Footnote? (February 28, 2007)
Storm Cloud at the Global Bazaar? (February 21, 2007)
Welfare State Stasis (February 14, 2007)
Global Warming and Hot Air (February 7, 2007)
Hiding Health Care's Costs (January 31, 2007)
Blindness on Biofuels (January 24, 2007)
Seven Tough Choices We Will Not Make (January 17, 2007)
Entitled Selfishness (January 10, 2007)
The Big Economic Worry (January 3, 2007)
Myths And the Middle Class (December 27, 2006)
The Economy's Rebalancing Act (December 20, 2006)
Farewell to Pax Americana (December 14, 2006)
Dangers in a Dollar on the Edge (December 8, 2006)
'Fair Trade' Foolishness (November 30, 2006)
Friedman's Large Legacy (November 20, 2006)
Can the Democrats Deliver? (November 16, 2006)
Greenhouse Guessing (November 10, 2006)
What if We're to Blame? (November 1, 2006)
Capitalism's Next Stage (October 26, 2006)
An Oil Habit America Cannot Break (October 18, 2006)
Home Is Where the Worry Is (October 11, 2006)
300 Million Reasons to Worry? (October 4, 2006)
Trickle-Up Economics (September 27, 2006)
A Web of Exhibitionists (September 20, 2006)
The Medicare Monster (September 14, 2006)
How We Dummies Succeed (September 6, 2006)
Wal-Mart as Red Herring (August 30, 2006)
Unwinding the Credit Boom (August 23, 2006)
The Economics of Fear (August 16, 2006)
Cooling Off About Keeping Up (August 9, 2006)
A Reform That Worked (August 3, 2006)
Is There An Oil 'Bubble'? (July 26, 2006)
No Shame, No Sense and a $296 Billion Bill (July 20, 2006)
Delinquency Of the CEOs (July 13, 2006)
Global Warming's Real Inconvenient Truth (July 5, 2006)
Mexico's Missing Prosperity (June 28, 2006)
Facing Up to Inflation (June 21, 2006)
Global Capital On the Run (June 14, 2006)
Hank's Likely Headaches (June 7, 2006)
What You Don't Know About the Immigration Bill (May 31, 2006)
Behind The Birth Dearth (May 24, 2006)
