Robert J. Samuelson

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In embracing a victims-and-villains explanation of the recession, Americans are missing important lessons about the future of the U.S. economy. 

Rethinking the Great Recession

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The role of the welfare state in today’s economic crisis recalls the part played by the gold standard in the calamitous 1930s.

Revisiting the Great Depression

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Though Americans see upward mobility as their birthright, that assumption faces growing challenges, with consequences not just for the size of our wallets, but for the tenor of our politics.