Robert Samuelson - The Durango Herald

Will the next financial crisis come as a stranger?

WASHINGTON – The news is better than you might think. A decade after the onset of the 2008-09 global financial crisis – an event usually dated to the bankruptcy of Lehman Bros. – ...

DATE: Sep 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: Could Lehman Brothers have been saved?

WASHINGTON – Who lost Lehman Brothers? As we approach the 10th anniversary of Lehman’s collapse (Sept. 15), these questions won’t go away. The Lehman bankruptcy is portrayed as th...

DATE: Aug 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: Welcome to the age of malware

WASHINGTON — Welcome to the Age of Malware. It promises to be a huge downer and, possibly, a great tragedy. For years, we have regarded personal computers, the internet, smartphon...

DATE: Aug 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: Productivity boom? Think again

WASHINGTON — Let’s travel back in time to 1995. Most Americans still remembered the calamitous inflation of the late 1970s (prices rose 13 percent in 1979). Many federal benefits, including ...

DATE: Aug 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Trade wars and the $247 trillion global debt bomb

WASHINGTON – The untold story of the world economy – so far at least – is the potentially explosive interaction between the spreading trade war and the overhang of global debt, estimated at ...

DATE: Jul 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: Neo-isolationist policies won’t work in this era

WASHINGTON – On this July Fourth, America has taken a turn for the worst. The great delusion of Donald Trump’s presidency is that we can thrive by embracing nationalism even though major eco...

DATE: Jul 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Current crisis in Italy threatens global economy

WASHINGTON – If you’re nostalgic for the 2008-09 financial crisis, you can cheer up. Another debacle may be on its way. Its epicenter would be Italy, which may threaten the rest of the world...

DATE: Jun 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Our new capitalism strikingly resembles the old

WASHINGTON – We flatter ourselves into thinking that we live in a time of exceptional economic upheaval. The truth is that the present resembles the past. What we learned – and forget – is t...

DATE: May 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: Children versus grandparents

WASHINGTON – To those paying attention, the recent strikes for higher teachers’ pay in West Virginia and Oklahoma are a harbinger of things to come. You can attribute the strikes to the stin...

DATE: Apr 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: Why fossil fuels survive

WASHINGTON – Anyone who tells you that dealing with climate change is simply a matter of sweeping away the obstructionism of oil companies is living in a dream world. The real obstacle is us...

DATE: Mar 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: China and the global race for new technology

WASHINGTON – The National Science Foundation and the National Science Board have just released their biennial “Science & Engineering Indicators,” a voluminous document describing the state o...

DATE: Jan 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Trump’s take on trade may well lead to dead end

WASHINGTON – Most Americans likely think that our trade policies have been largely the same since the Republic’s earliest days. The assumptions are that we’re free traders now an...

DATE: Nov 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson