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- What Causes Inflation? Lessons from the 1970s, Vol. 3
- The definition of inflation in your first economics course is simple: "Too much money chasing too few goods." You might restate it as "an increasing amount of money chasing a fixed amount of goods," but the point is that when the quantity of money in an economy is increasing faster...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
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- Inflation's Social and Political Costs: Lessons from the 1970s, vol. 2
- In addition to the primary and secondary economic costs that come with high inflation, which we considered yesterday, there's a third level of effects -- social and political -- that comes with chronic rising prices. To generalize, I believe that high inflation hurts poor people more than rich people, political...
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Funded by TIAA-CREF: Samuelson Award goes to 3 finance professors; Trio dividing $10,000 prize for publishing paper on taxable vs. tax-deferred investing.(News)(Chester S. Spatt, Harold H. Zhang, Robert M. Dammon)(Teachers Insurance and Annuity Associatio
- Byline: Barry B. Burr NEW YORK - Three finance professors - Robert M. Dammon, Chester S. Spatt, and Harold H. Zhang - will share in the ninth annual Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security. They...
- Research articles 2004-12-13
- Bylines
- Our Tear-Out Guide To the Candidates Credit for the idea goes to Contributing Editor Robert Samuelson, and the execution is classic NEWSWEEK--a collaboration between a team of reporters, designers, editors and graphics experts. The result is our suitable-for-hanging-on-your-refrigerator guide to the issues on page 34. "We wanted to give our...
- Research articles 2000-11-06
- How the Helio Buyout Process Went: Virgin Mobile Wanted To Bring In a Retail and Financial Investor
- Virgin Mobile USA bought Helio earlier this year, for a paltry $39 million in equity and getting $50 million in investment from British parent Virgin Group and SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM). That we reported on in detail at that time. Now finally, VMUSA has filed details of how the...
- External links 2008-12-12
- New economists: the Cambridge tendency. (Cambridge, Mass.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- IN MACROECONOMICS, the pre-eminence of America's Cambridge was for many years the pre-eminence of a single institution: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT has been the professional home of Messrs Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow and Franco Mo IN MACROECONOMICS, the pre-eminence of America's Cambridge was ...
- Research articles 1988-12-24
- Squeeze Play
- American consumers have no recollection of life in the Great Depression. Not only are most simply too young to remember it, but for the last quarter century they've lived without extended economic hardship, becoming ever more acquisitive in a world of instant gratification and easy credit. No one knows how...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Congress vs. free speech
- In his March 27th commentary, liberal Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson reproduced some of the most candid admissions by congressional campaign "reformers" that they were seeking to constrict political speech:
- Research articles 2002-04-22
- Bylines
- Seeing Around the Market's Corners Writing about stocks can be nail-biting even at a daily newspaper--it's a story that can change in an instant. That's why Allan Sloan's and Robert J. Samuelson's abilities to predict long-term trends are so impressive. Three years ago, Sam wrote a cover explaining how...
- Research articles 2001-03-26
- Squandering prosperity: George W. Bush has the worst economic record of any president since Herbert Hoover. But can the Democrats exploit that at all?
- ECONOMISTS ARE ADMITTING TO CONFUSION, ALWAYS A bad sign. The American economy has entered "a baffling twilight zone," writes Robert J. Samuelson. "People yearn for clarity and confidence, while the new stagnation provides mainly uncertainty and contradiction." The Federal Reserve seems...
- Research articles 2003-06-01
- Periscope.
- Byline: B.J. Lee (Dan Ephron John D. Sparks Robert J. Samuelson Elise Soukup Elise Soukup Brad Stone) Korea: The Reform Storm Hyundai was supposed to be a standout among the "billion profit club," a group of a dozen South Korean multinationals that...
- Research articles 2006-05-08
- No Free Launch; The case against European subsidies for Airbus, and for American retaliation on Boeing's behalf.
- Byline: Robert J. Samuelson The United States and Europe are edging toward their biggest trade dispute ever--and Washington shouldn't blink. The dispute involves competition between Boeing and Airbus, which has toppled Boeing as the world's largest producer of commercial jets. In 2004 Airbus will...
- Research articles 2004-12-13
- Nobel Economists on Kerry-Edwards Plan to Strengthen the Economy and Create Jobs
- News Advisory: On Wednesday, Aug. 25, at 11:30 a.m. ET, Nobel Prize winning economists George Akerlof (UC-Berkeley), Robert Solow MIT and Paul Samuelson MIT will hold a conference call with reporters to discuss their support of the Kerry-Edwards plan to strengthen the economy and create jobs. The three economists will...
- Research articles 2004-08-25
- Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1988. (book reviews)
- Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1988. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Editor's Note: Robert J. Samuelson is a columnist who writes regularly for the Washington Post and Newsweek. For each of the past several years, he has shared...
- Research articles 1989-06-01
- Bernanke and Obama Start to Relax, so It’s Time to Get Nervous
- One of the best contrarian plays is to buy stocks when the economy is recognized by the Establishment to be in a recession. By the time that the government and media acknowledge the dire truth, investors are well aware of it and have gotten their selling out of the way....
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
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