Age of Entitlement–and what our leaders must do to instill a sense of reality. ..MR0- The paradox of our time is that we are feeling bad about doing well. When historians contemplate the budget debate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson in 2019. - (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) Robert J. Samuelson, who sought to ...

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WASHINGTON — The popular appeal of a single-payer system to solve the nation's health care problems is no secret. Everyone would have insurance, recognizing — as Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., ...

One curiosity of the cyber age is that the American public seems relatively unconcerned by what, arguably, is the biggest threat from the internet: attacks on the nation’s “critical infrastructure” — ...

Robert J. Samuelson, who sought to explain the implications of unemployment, inflation, and government spending to ordinary readers for more than 40 years as an economics columnist for The Washington ...

IT’S A MARK OF OUR PROGRESS AGAINST INFLATION THAT the greatest need now is measuring it. Once in double digits, it’s so low that we’re not sure what it is. ADAM SMITH (1723-1790) IS A MAN FOR OUR ...

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Let’s celebrate a quiet revolution: the return of “full employment.” In the 1960s and 1970s politicians and economists clamored for it, defining full employment as an unemployment rate of 4 percent.

THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS ARE HAVING ANOTHER trade debate, but there is less to it than meets the eye. The issue is no longer “”free trade” versus “”protectionism,” because history and technology ...