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Robert J. Samuelson
The administration insists it can insure most of the uninsured and tackle runaway health spending simultaneously by pruning the waste in today's health care system. That's wishful thinking. Read the column Monday at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
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Health care is taking over government. Even without new legislation, the health share would grow as an aging population uses more Medicare and Medicaid. President Obama would magnify the trend, and all of this is transforming politics and society. Read the column Monday at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
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Everyone knows that the resulting "entitlements" dominate government
spending and squeeze education, research, defense and almost everything
else. And because workers, not retirees, are the primary taxpayers,
this spending involves huge transfers to the elderly. Comes now the
House-passed health care "reform" bill that, am...azingly, would extract
more subsidies from the young. Read it Monday at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
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The sweeping overhaul of the health care system -- which Congress is
halfway toward enacting -- would create new, open-ended medical
entitlements that threaten higher deficits and would do little to
suppress surging health costs. Read it Monday at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
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When Nouriel Roubini talks, the world listens. Roubini is, of course, the once-obscure New York University economist whose dire warnings about a financial crisis proved depressingly prophetic. Last week, Roubini was shouting. Writing in the Financial Times, he warned that the Federal Reserve and ...
Robert J. Samuelson
We've learned that there's a thin line between promoting economic
expansion and fostering bubbles. With hindsight, lax Fed policies
contributed to both the "tech" bubble of the late 1990s and the recent
housing bubble, though how much is debated. Read it Monday at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
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People have predicted a crisis over the fall of the dollar for decades.
It hasn't happened yet. The currency's decline has been orderly,
because the dollar retains a bedrock confidence. But something could
shatter that confidence -- tomorrow or 10 years from tomorrow. Read it Monday at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn.../content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402
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Die-hard Keynesians insist that only more government spending and tax
cuts will accelerate job growth. But many other economists fear that
exploding federal debt -- incurred partly to pay for more spending and
tax cuts -- could trigger a new crisis that would destroy jobs. Read it Monday at http://www.washingtonpost.com/w...p-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI20050
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Are we condemning our children to downward mobility? Considering how
health spending could threaten future living standards, the question
ought to be center stage in the "reform" debate. Instead, it's ignored.
Read it Monday at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
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How close did we come to the Great Depression 2.0? Christina Romer, the
head of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, already has an
answer: pretty darn close. Read the column Monday at
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What's driving the great health debate of 2009 is not a popular clamor
for universal insurance, but rather politicians' psychological quest
for glory. Read it Monday at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
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The verdict on President Obama's tire tariffs is paradoxical. As
protectionism, the tariffs are bad policy. Yet they send the right
message to China: cease and desist. Read it Monday at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
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Robert Samuelson was a guest of Warren Olney on a special Labor Day edition of To The Point. Samuelson and others debated the consequences of an aging Baby Boomer population on the workforce, medicine and society...
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It's the bleakest Labor Day since at least the early 1980s. With the unemployment rate at 9.7 percent in August and expected to go higher, cheery news is scarce. Read more on Monday at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
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Without some impending calamity, politicians of both parties recoil from doing anything unpopular that might balance the budget. They'd rather promise more, even if the revenue is not there to deliver. Read it Monday at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
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