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 ...

If you want to understand why the tax code is so hard to overhaul, consider the case of the mortgage interest deduction. The issue is so sensitive that the House and Senate are dealing with it in ...

This is the summer of our discontent. As Americans celebrate July 4, they are mad at their leaders, mad at their government and mad at each other. A recent Pew poll finds that “public trust in ...

Those who haven't been following the New York Times Economix blog may have been a trifle surprised yesterday by Robert Samuelson's emphatic denunciation of the Obama administration's ideas for a ...

Tomisina Michele Dolecki and Robert Christopher Samuelson are joyful to announce their engagement. Bobby is the grandson of Jerri Gilbert of Falconer, son of Kristine of Fluvanna and Robert Samuelson ...

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 ...

Here's a story with a happy ending: The Statistical Abstract of the United States -- which seemed destined for history's morgue -- has survived. At least for now. You may recall (or you may not) that ...

WASHINGTON -- Call it the superdollar. On foreign-exchange markets, the dollar has reigned supreme for years. It symbolizes America's economic power -- and now the world economy's potential ...