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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

Samuelson: We are having the wrong debate on taxes, again

WASHINGTON – We Americans are having the wrong debate. Almost all the arguing about the Trump administration’s proposed tax cut centers on two issues. Will the tax reduction stim...

DATE: Nov 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: Does history prove that tax cuts spur growth?

WASHINGTON — The answer is “no.” The question, from a reader, is “Do we have any historical evidence that lowering tax rates, particularly among the richest strata, generates economic growth...

DATE: Oct 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: Build the wall, and keep the ‘dreamers’ in return

WASHINGTON — It’s time to build the wall – and, in doing so, prevent an estimated 690,000 DACA “dreamers” from being deported from the United States. It’s a fair deal that could ...

DATE: Oct 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: How resilient is the typical American consumer?

WASHINGTON – The American consumer is the great engine of growth for the $19 trillion U.S. economy, representing nearly 70 percent of spending. If the consumer is confident and happy, chance...

DATE: Oct 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: Growing black-white wage gap is unexplained and scary

WASHINGTON – There are few economic problems more frustrating than the stubborn gaps in wages and unemployment rates between blacks and whites. Despite decades of trying to reduce or elimina...

DATE: Sep 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: We need higher taxes

WASHINGTON – Can we get real about “tax reform,” the Republican promise to enact deep tax cuts that will spur economic growth? Probably not, but let’s give it a try. For starters,...

DATE: Aug 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: Trump’s need to dominate news cycle says it all

WASHINGTON — No one is working harder for the impeachment of Donald Trump than Donald Trump. If we have learned anything about this president, it is that he has a compulsion to b...

DATE: Aug 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: How health care controls us more than we control it

WASHINGTON – If we learned anything from the bitter debate over the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) – which seems doubtful – it is that we cannot discuss health care in a way that is at once...

DATE: Jul 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: Too many of us have a vested interest in division

WASHINGTON — This is the summer of our discontent. As Americans celebrated July 4, they were mad at their leaders, mad at their government and mad at each other. A recent Pew poll finds that...

DATE: Jul 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: Rise of postindustrial society linked to anger

WASHINGTON – Ever since Donald Trump’s election, a cottage industry of politicians, journalists, scholars and commentators has sought to understand what motivates Trump supporters. ...

DATE: Jun 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson