Steven R. Pearlstein

Articles by Steven R. Pearlstein

A misguided tax credit for home buyers, and other political follies (November 6, 2009)

Steven Pearlstein: Business v. labor story getting old (November 4, 2009)

This Wall Street fairy tale doesn't have a happy ending (October 30, 2009)

White House and insurance industry battle over health reform (October 28, 2009)

Pay restrictions may not fix underlying risk-taking (October 23, 2009)

Steve Pearlstein: It's time to break the NFL's monopolies (October 21, 2009)

Defections Expose Chamber's Dirty Little Secrets (October 16, 2009)

Don't Reinflate the Old Bubbles (October 14, 2009)

Rethinking Capitalism: How Very Enterprising (October 2, 2009)

Why Health Plans Should Be More Like Fire Insurance (September 30, 2009)

Steven Pearlstein: A Health-Insurance Difference Without a Distinction (September 25, 2009)

A New Bubble Of the Fed's Creation (September 23, 2009)

Steven Pearlstein: Missing the Mark on Ratings-Agency Reform (September 18, 2009)

What Kind of Judge Stands Up For Truth and Justice? (September 16, 2009)

Wall Street's Mania for Short-Term Results Hurts Economy (September 11, 2009)

It's Time for Obama to Rise Above the Partisan Health-Care Debate (September 9, 2009)

Steven Pearlstein: Lehman Brothers Failure May Have Saved Us All (September 4, 2009)

So You Just Squandered Billions . . . Take Another Whack at It (September 2, 2009)

Kennedy Saw Health-Care Reform Fail in the '70s; Today's Lawmakers Don't Have To (August 28, 2009)

Michael Steele's Disastrous Idea of a Republican Health-Care Proposal (August 26, 2009)

Credit Crunch Means We May Not Be Out of This Yet (August 21, 2009)

Time to Give Up on the Public Option (August 19, 2009)

Steven Pearlstein: Rethinking the Fed Chairmanship and Weighing Who's Right for the Job (August 14, 2009)

Behold, a National and Rational Conversation on Health Care (August 12, 2009)

Steven Pearlstein: Republicans Propagating Falsehoods in Attacks on Health-Care Reform (August 7, 2009)

Are We Finally Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Corporate Deceit? (August 5, 2009)

The Dust Hasn't Settled on Wall Street, but History's Already Repeating Itself (July 31, 2009)

Health Reform Threatened by Conservatives' Anti-Tax Fantasy (July 29, 2009)

Time for the Blue Dogs to Show Their True Colors (July 24, 2009)

Imperfect Health Reform Still Beats the Status Quo (July 22, 2009)

Steven Pearlstein: Where the Payoffs Are Big, So Are the Paychecks (July 17, 2009)

A 9-1-1 for Health-Care Reform: Send Leadership Now (July 15, 2009)

SAIC Case Sheds Needed Light on World of Government Contracting (July 10, 2009)

Small Businesses Can Handle an Insurance Mandate (July 8, 2009)

Don't Put Too Much Stock in Economic Good News (July 3, 2009)

SEC's Gaping Blind Spots Kept Madoff's Misdeeds Out of Sight (July 1, 2009)

For the Farm Lobby, Too Much Is Never Enough (June 26, 2009)

The Productivity Revolution Trickles Into Government (June 24, 2009)

Regulatory Reform That Falls Far Short of It (June 19, 2009)

Crisis Managers vs. Naysayers (June 12, 2009)

Fixing Health Care Starts With the Doctors (June 10, 2009)

A Brief Incursion Into the Not-So-Big Two (May 29, 2009)

The Big Banks' Best Friend in Washington (May 27, 2009)

Climate-Change Bill Hits Some of the Right Notes but Botches the Refrain (May 22, 2009)

Budget Scolds Shouldn't Drown Out the Chorus Calling for Health Reform (May 20, 2009)

Antitrust Challenges for the Obama Administration (May 17, 2009)

Dear Mr. Buffett: About Those Newspapers . . . (May 15, 2009)

Community Banks Cry Foul, but What's Fair? (May 13, 2009)

An Economist, an Academic Puzzle and a Lot of Promise (May 8, 2009)

In Portugal, as in America, a 'Third Way' Is Reemerging (May 6, 2009)

Claiming Unfairness, Hedge Funds Miss the Point (May 1, 2009)

At Constellation, Not a Star Performance (April 24, 2009)

How the U.S. Will Save GM and Chrysler (April 22, 2009)

Tax Fantasies of the Right and Left (April 17, 2009)

Reinventing Regulation (April 15, 2009)

A 'Public' Fix for Health Care Need Not Abandon the Market (April 10, 2009)

Not Quite a Confession, But a Good Start (April 8, 2009)

A Rare Triumph of Substance at the Summit (April 3, 2009)

In Hollywood, Reshaping a Business Model That Emerged With the Talkies (March 27, 2009)

Steven Pearlstein: California's Wipeout Economy (March 25, 2009)

Optimism Over Despair (March 24, 2009)

Let's Put Down the Pitchforks (March 20, 2009)

Wall Street's Dangerous Refusal to Learn (March 18, 2009)

It'll Take More Than Money to Fix This Crisis (March 11, 2009)

There's Now No Question: Region Is Not Recession-Proof (March 6, 2009)

Debt Doesn't Have to Be A Burden (March 4, 2009)

A Budget Process Hijacked by Selfish Interests (February 27, 2009)

President's Historic Message Balances Urgency, Optimism (February 25, 2009)

Asia, Europe Find Their Supply Chains Yanked. Beware the Backlash. (February 20, 2009)

Where Wall Street, Detroit Intersect (February 18, 2009)

Bloviation vs. Reality on Stimulus Health-Care Provision (February 13, 2009)

Big Lessons in Finance From a Little Bank You've Never Heard Of (February 11, 2009)

Wanted: Personal Economic Trainers. Apply at Capitol. (February 6, 2009)

Stumbling on Their Sense of Entitlement (February 4, 2009)

A Last Shot At Hospital Competition (January 30, 2009)

Not What the Doctor Ordered (January 28, 2009)

Beware Simple 'Fixes' to a Complicated Financial Mess (January 23, 2009)

Obama and the Expansion of Possibility (January 21, 2009)

Expensive, Dangerous and Necessary (January 16, 2009)

Unfairly Rewarding Greedy Bankers, and Why It Works (January 14, 2009)

Obama's SEC Pick Is No Joe Kennedy (January 7, 2009)

Universal Pay Cuts May Lighten Recession (December 31, 2008)

Insurance Against an Even Bigger Wreck (December 20, 2008)

A Time Of Need (December 19, 2008)

Madoff's Lessons For the Market (December 17, 2008)

Just One Real Leader, and We Could Have Avoided This Mess (December 12, 2008)

A Perfect Storm? No, a Failure of Leadership (December 10, 2008)

A Bank, and a Banker, Flush With Honor (December 5, 2008)

The Big Three's Stalemate (December 3, 2008)

Keynes on Steroids (November 26, 2008)

A Bailout Steeped in Irony (November 25, 2008)

It's Not Hank's Mess, but He's Doing Well on Cleanup (November 21, 2008)

Obama's Voice of Reason Puts Automakers on the Road to Rescue (November 19, 2008)

Toward a New International Capitalism (November 14, 2008)

Pressure Is on for Obama, but This Rescue Relies on All of Us (November 12, 2008)

Obama's Hurdles Down the Track (November 7, 2008)

Hank Paulson's $125 Billion Mistake (October 31, 2008)

A Detroit Bankruptcy Beats a Bailout (October 29, 2008)

Buckle Up -- We Haven't Reached Bottom Yet (October 15, 2008)

It's Wall Street's Turn to Bolster Confidence (October 14, 2008)

Before This Hole Gets Deeper, a Break From Digging (October 11, 2008)

For the New Contagion, the Same Old Prescriptions (October 8, 2008)

With Bubbles Popping Worldwide, No Wonder the Economy's Gone Flat (October 7, 2008)

Greed Is Fine. It's Stupidity That Hurts. (October 3, 2008)

No Silver Bullets Here (October 2, 2008)

They Just Don't Get It (September 30, 2008)

Dr. Paulson's Tough Medicine, In a Pill the Public Can Swallow (September 29, 2008)

Johnny One Note's Last Refrain (September 27, 2008)

Gut Check (September 26, 2008)

The Words Left Unspoken in the Bailout Debate (September 24, 2008)

Tossing Aside History, Conventions and a Few Cliches (September 20, 2008)

To Plan B, With All Deliberate Speed (September 19, 2008)

Scrambling to Clean Up After A Category 4 Financial Storm (September 18, 2008)

Orchestrating a Process Neither Neat Nor Fair (September 16, 2008)

Financial Rescues Show That Faith in Free Market Is Shaken (September 12, 2008)

A Vicious Cycle, Gone Global (September 12, 2008)

Don't Like Bailouts? Consider the Alternatives. (September 10, 2008)

In Crisis, Paulson's Stunning Use of Federal Power (September 8, 2008)

A Con Game In Pinstripes (September 5, 2008)

The Road to a Bailout They Don't Deserve (September 3, 2008)

A Watershed Labor Negotiation (August 29, 2008)

Our Inequality of Outcomes (August 27, 2008)

A Soap Opera That Needs to End (August 22, 2008)

When Progress Is A Walk in the Park (August 20, 2008)

Sir Alan's Follies (August 15, 2008)

Russia's Strike Shows The Power Of the Pipeline (August 13, 2008)

To Successfully Manage an Aging Superstar, Don't Battle His Ego -- Co-Opt It (August 8, 2008)

Wave Goodbye to the Invisible Hand (August 1, 2008)

Doing the Banks One Better (July 25, 2008)

Macbeth and the Market (July 18, 2008)

The Everyman Plan (July 15, 2008)

A Delicate Balance (July 11, 2008)

Altering the Economics of Civil Litigation (July 4, 2008)

This Recession, It's Just Beginning (June 27, 2008)

Lessons From The Mosh Pit (June 25, 2008)

On Energy: Same-Old, Same-Old (June 20, 2008)

75 Years Later, a Regulator Who Would Make FDR Proud (June 18, 2008)

Let Us Now Praise Power Brokers (June 13, 2008)

What Smartphone Makers Can Teach Legislators (June 11, 2008)

Region's Universities Raise Their Tech IQ (June 6, 2008)

Bubbles, Arms Races and an End to the Spin Cycle (June 4, 2008)

The Fading of the Mirage Economy (May 28, 2008)

Such a Deal (May 23, 2008)

Leap of Illogic on Wall Street Leaves GE Flat-Footed (May 21, 2008)

Healthy Competition (May 16, 2008)

In a Fix, GOP Drags Its Feet (May 14, 2008)

A Payout That's Off the Dial (May 9, 2008)

Clinton's Best Oil Idea: Get Tough on OPEC (May 7, 2008)

Now, a Commodities Conundrum (April 30, 2008)

Cashing In on Corruption (April 25, 2008)

The Bottom Is Up Ahead (April 23, 2008)

National Harbor Hindered By Petty Political Moves (April 21, 2008)

Newspaper Publishers Chasing the Wrong Story (April 16, 2008)

Getting Away From the Dollar (April 11, 2008)

Off Balance at the Top (April 9, 2008)

Max and Chuck Show, Cont. (April 4, 2008)

Regulations Need Regulators (April 2, 2008)

Hypocrisy That's Hard to Bear (March 28, 2008)

Out of Tune With Consumers (March 26, 2008)

A Sacred Cow in the Cockpit (March 21, 2008)

Public Risk, Private Gain (March 18, 2008)

FBR's Awful Truth (March 14, 2008)

A Bailout. For Everyone. (March 12, 2008)

Outrage Is Wasted on Boeing's Snub by the Air Force (March 7, 2008)

UDC Is a School to Retool (March 5, 2008)

Inova Follows the Money (February 29, 2008)

Mobilization for Globalization (February 27, 2008)

There's the Beef (February 22, 2008)

Time for Wall Street to Pay (February 20, 2008)

Tough Math on the Hilltop (February 15, 2008)

Derailing Economic Growth (February 13, 2008)

Failure In Need of A Theory (February 8, 2008)

Getting Past Nowhere On Budget (February 6, 2008)

Over an Insurance Barrel (January 25, 2008)

Only When the Bubble Bursts (January 23, 2008)

More Room to Fall (January 22, 2008)

Biggest Is Not Best (January 18, 2008)

Caught in a Downdraft and Starting to Panic (January 16, 2008)

In a Fight to His Finish at Sallie (January 11, 2008)

Stimulate the Economy, Don't Play Politics With It (January 9, 2008)

We're Not Immune (January 4, 2008)

Softening Economy Doesn't Harden Hearts (December 21, 2007)

A $500 Billion Correction (December 19, 2007)

Business Over a Barrel (December 14, 2007)

Inflation Echoes From Abroad (December 12, 2007)

On Wall Street, Mortgaged Principles (December 7, 2007)

It's Not 1929, but It's the Biggest Mess Since (December 5, 2007)

Whose Music in Silver Spring? (November 30, 2007)

The Art of Managing Risk (November 28, 2007)

Here Passing the Plate, There Passing the Buck (November 21, 2007)

Cost-Conscious Colleges (November 16, 2007)

An Ivory Tower of Pricing (November 14, 2007)

A Broader View of Home-Field Advantage (November 9, 2007)

Citigroup and Prince: Too-Risky Business (November 7, 2007)

A Good Guy for Hilton (November 2, 2007)

Time to Stand Up to Wall Street (October 31, 2007)

Over the Rainbow In Silicon Valley (October 26, 2007)

AT& T, IBM, Intel, Microsoft . . . Google? (October 24, 2007)

In California, a Second Internet Gold Rush (October 19, 2007)

Transparency Is Key To Super SIV (October 17, 2007)

Inova Looks Beyond Local Dominance (October 12, 2007)

Two Hours, Nine Candidates, and Almost Nothing New (October 10, 2007)

Wild Rides and Hangovers (October 7, 2007)

Slots, Md.'s Off-the-Track Cure-All (October 5, 2007)

A Solution That Can't Get Off the Ground (October 3, 2007)

Radio One Deal Weighed Down by Social Static (September 28, 2007)

The Wrong Reason To Strike (September 26, 2007)

Foreigners Descend on U.S. Fire Sale (September 23, 2007)

Extraordinary Intervention (September 21, 2007)

A Healthy Dose of Hillary (September 19, 2007)

A Bad Idea's Slow but Merciful Death (September 12, 2007)

A Well-Grounded Economist (September 7, 2007)

In a Too-Close Tango, Carlyle Trips Over Age-Old Missteps (September 5, 2007)

Forestalling Foreclosures (August 31, 2007)

On Poverty, Maybe We're All Wrong (August 29, 2007)

A Little Late to Splash Water on the Fire (August 26, 2007)

Commercial Real Estate, Come On Down (August 24, 2007)

Running Right Back to the Bank (August 22, 2007)

For Small Investors, Now Is Not the Time for Bold Moves (August 18, 2007)

No Time To Sit and Watch (August 17, 2007)

Seeking a Wrench To Stop the Drip (August 15, 2007)

Looking for Footing on Shaky Ground (August 11, 2007)

New Order Ushers in A World of Instability (August 10, 2007)

Missed Opportunities (August 8, 2007)

Credit Market's Weight Puts Economy on Shaky Ground (August 1, 2007)

Will the Leak Ruin the Engine? (July 27, 2007)

As Governments Invest, Motives Blur (July 25, 2007)

The (Unaffordable) House We All Live In (July 20, 2007)

France's Get-Up-and-Go (July 18, 2007)

Western-Style Capitalism, but With a Russian Accent (July 13, 2007)

As Russia Advances, High Tech Gets Left Behind (July 11, 2007)

Oil, Oligarchs and Opulence (July 6, 2007)

Intelsat's Triple-Flip Is Anchored on Debt (June 15, 2007)

The Takeover Boom, About to Go Bust (June 13, 2007)

Good Work at the Movies (June 8, 2007)

Health-Care Reform Needs Holistic Approach (June 6, 2007)

The Whys Have It (June 3, 2007)

Deregulation's Unkept Promise (June 1, 2007)

Fair to Middling in the Middle Class (May 30, 2007)

'Water Taxi! Water Taxi!' (May 25, 2007)

A Government Standard (May 23, 2007)

The Mayor's Advantage (May 18, 2007)

It's Hard to See What Sale Will Solve (May 16, 2007)

Developer Kettler May Have Found the Magic Formula (May 14, 2007)

Sticking Points On Trade Turn Into Tipping Point (May 11, 2007)

Industries Could Take Cues From Hollywood on Self-Control (May 9, 2007)

A Powerhouse for the Poor (May 4, 2007)

Sorry State of a County (April 27, 2007)

From Old World To Real World (April 25, 2007)

Hospitals Check Their Charts (April 20, 2007)

For Consumers, the Raw Deal (April 18, 2007)

Putting Principles Out To Posture (April 13, 2007)

Poland's Economic Revolutionary (April 11, 2007)

Solving the Skill Shortage (April 6, 2007)

Private Equity's Bottom Line for Workers (April 4, 2007)

Attempts to Trim the Fat Merely Cut at the Meat (March 30, 2007)

An Opportunity On Trade (March 28, 2007)

It's Time for Subsidies To Subside in D.C. (March 23, 2007)

Making a Play For the Dumb Money (March 21, 2007)

Help for Homeowners, Not a Bailout for Mortgage Pushers (March 16, 2007)

'No Money Down' Falls Flat (March 14, 2007)

D.C. School Reform: Everyone's Business (March 9, 2007)

Policymakers' Approach to Risk: 'What, Me Worry?' (March 7, 2007)

Time for Northern Virginia to Take Road Less Traveled (March 2, 2007)

Yesterday Brought to You By the Irrational Herd (February 28, 2007)

Sirius-XM Merger Would Send Wrong Signal (February 23, 2007)

Why Status Sells Better Than Service (February 21, 2007)

Code Blue for a Hospital or Two (February 16, 2007)

Adding Up the Reasons For Expensive Health Care (February 14, 2007)

A Slugfest Gets Uglier (February 9, 2007)

The Grand Bargainer (February 7, 2007)

Hotel Investors, Going for Broke (February 2, 2007)

Change of Control Or Out of Control? (January 31, 2007)

Bipartisan Cooperation on Health Care Is Dead on Arrival (January 24, 2007)

Funding Sends Northern Virginia Down the Right Road (January 19, 2007)

A New Consensus on Universal Health Care (January 17, 2007)

It Was a Very Contrary Year (January 12, 2007)

Minimum Wage, Maximum Myth (January 10, 2007)

STEVEN PEARLSTEIN (January 3, 2007)

The Latest Captive Market: Commuters (December 29, 2006)

Of Public Debt and Private Wealth (December 27, 2006)

In Praise of the Corporate Heart (December 22, 2006)

Wall Street's Season of Excess (December 20, 2006)

Auditing Reform: Mission Accomplished! (December 15, 2006)

Health-Care Pricing Checks the Market's Pulse (December 13, 2006)

How Inova Captured the Regulators (December 8, 2006)

An Economic Pillar on the Verge of Collapse (December 6, 2006)

Suburban Soul (December 1, 2006)

New Europe Returns to Old Habits (November 29, 2006)

It Was Better With Bonzo (November 24, 2006)

Paulson May Find Sensible Doesn't Sell (November 22, 2006)

Friedman Debunked the Gospel of Keynes (November 17, 2006)

Hertz Case Is Example of What Ails Big Three (November 15, 2006)

As Political Power Shifts, So Do Prospects for the Region's Economy (November 10, 2006)

Not Your Generic Merger (November 3, 2006)

More Leverage Won't Add Balance (November 1, 2006)

A PR Firm That Actually Knows How to Relate (October 27, 2006)

Democrats May Be Poised to Win, but They're Still Lost (October 25, 2006)

A Free-Trade Zone for Ideas (October 20, 2006)

UnitedHealth's Options Scandal Shows Familiar Symptoms (October 18, 2006)

When the Merger's Over (October 13, 2006)

Political Winds Are Pushing Airbus Astray (October 11, 2006)

Internet Realigns Market for Tickets (October 6, 2006)

Top-Down, Bottom-Up, but What About the Middle? (October 4, 2006)

BearingPoint, Take Two (September 29, 2006)

No Longer No. 1, and No Wonder (September 27, 2006)

Advertising's New Idea: Don't Push the Product; Pull the Consumer Instead (September 22, 2006)

What Happened To Creative Advertising? (September 20, 2006)

Living Regionally, Thinking Locally (September 15, 2006)

The Corporate Noose, A Little Too Tight (September 13, 2006)

The Downtown Drag (September 8, 2006)

Lots of Dollars, Little Sense (September 6, 2006)

Sweet Deals Buried Intelsat in Debt (August 18, 2006)

Regulate Hedge Funds? Nope, Just the Investors. (August 16, 2006)

In Md., Senate Hopefuls Ably Walk the Middle Path (August 11, 2006)

The Fed Pause That Refreshes? Hardly. (August 9, 2006)

Fenty May Well Be A Born Manager (August 4, 2006)

As Senate Hearing Shows, Cheaters Ever Prosper (August 2, 2006)

Low-Fare and Now No-Fair (July 28, 2006)

A Winning Strategy for the Democrats: Barter for Free Trade (July 26, 2006)

Less Hardball, More Humility (July 21, 2006)

A Sound Marketplace For Recorded Music (July 19, 2006)

Va. Hospital's No-Good Deal Goes Unpunished (July 12, 2006)

The Big Three: Desperation, Wishful Thinking and Big Myths (July 7, 2006)

Ken Lay's Optimism Was Outpaced by Reality (July 6, 2006)

World Puts the Brakes on the Rush to Globalization (July 5, 2006)