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<title><![CDATA[Steven Pearlstein - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15385.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Steven Pearlstein]]></description><category domain="15385">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Congress Needs Less Party Discipline, Not More]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/09/06/golden-gluesenkamp-perez-bucked-democratic-leaders-more-please/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Party leaders are angry at two Democrats for doing exactly what good legislators are supposed to do.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Five Myths About Capitalism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-capitalism/2018/09/27/3f0b72f6-c06f-11e8-90c9-23f963eea204_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.d64cdd93a45c&amp;wpisrc=nl_everything&amp;wpmm=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maybe greed isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t so good.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Amazon Getting Too Big?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/is-amazon-getting-too-big/2017/07/28/ff38b9ca-722e-11e7-9eac-d56bd5568db8_story.html?utm_term=.d810410070da</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amazon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s general counsel, David Zapolsky, had a lot on his mind last month when he and four members of his legal team visited the offices of New America, a liberal-leaning think tank in Washington. The retail juggernaut was days from announcing its $13.8 billion purchase of Whole...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NLRB Nominees Are Blatantly Political]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/18/the-real-nominations-scandal-isnt-the-filibuster-its-the-partisan-nominees/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For those concerned about excessive partisanship and polarization, Tuesday'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s Senate deal that clears the way for votes on presidential nominees is certainly a rare bit of welcome news.But not totally.Note what happened regarding the most controversial of the nominees, those to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Capitalism Moral?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-capitalism-moral/2013/03/15/a9ed66d4-868b-11e2-999e-5f8e0410cb9d_print.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Careening from debt-ceiling crisis to sequestration to a looming government shutdown, the nation is caught up in a historic debate over the proper size and role of government.That'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s certainly one way to think about it. Another is that we are caught up in a historic debate over...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Tries Democracy For a Change]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/02/congress-tries-democracy-for-a-change/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eat Your Broccoli, Justice Scalia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/steven-pearlstein-eat-your-broccoli-justice-scalia/2012/03/30/gIQAyGkynS_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the law is an ass, as Mr. Bumble declares in '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Oliver Twist,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' then constitutional law must surely be the entire wagon train.Like most Washington policy wonks, I spent too much of last week reading transcripts of the Supreme Court arguments over the constitutionality of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Global Economy Comes to the End of Its String]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/steven-pearlstein-the-global-economy-comes-to-the-end-of-its-string/2011/08/04/gIQAa2zEvI_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why is this happening?Short answer: Because we never really fixed underlying structural problems in the U.S. and global economies that had been building for decades and caused the financial and economic crisis in 2008.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Job Destruction Begets Job Creation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/a-healthy-dynamic-in-job-creation-destruction/2011/05/31/AGVyLmFH_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Haltiwanger thinks he may have discovered one reason why  the private sector is not creating more jobs this far into the so-called  recovery, and if he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s right, it is cause for concern:The U.S. economy has become less dynamic and entrepreneurial.Haltiwanger is a distinguished...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Long Tail of Improbable Disaster]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/lessons-from-the-long-tail-of-improbable-disaster/2011/03/14/ABht0Ja_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If it seems that the frequency and size of calamities have been  picking up in recent years, it's only because they probably have. In just the past decade, we've had the attacks of Sept. 11, the  tsunami in the Indian Ocean, Hurricane Katrina, the global financial  crisis, a global flu...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Olive Branch to Big Business]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/13/AR2011011306083.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks, President Obama has taken significant steps to try to  repair his administration's frayed relationship with the business  community. He has renegotiated a free-trade treaty with South Korea and signalled  that he intends to fight for its acceptance in Congress. Similar...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Must Move to Center--of the Country]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/09/AR2010110907177.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Looking at those red-and-blue electoral maps following last week's voting, you couldn't help but notice the dramatic swing of the industrial Midwest from Democrat to Republican.The industrial heartland has been contested territory ever since Richard  Nixon's reelection campaign of 1972....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Suffer Because Voters Won't Accept Reality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/19/AR2010101907521.html?hpid=topnews</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's one of the great fallacies in politics: Candidate Jones says X, Y  and Z during the campaign. Candidate Jones wins the election. Ergo, the  public agrees with X, Y and Z. Certainly there are times when that may be true, but just as often it is  not. After all, if that were always...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wage Cuts Hurt, But They're Needed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/12/AR2010101206121.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, General Motors and the United Auto Workers announced agreement on a new two-tier wage structure that would allow the automaker to  produce its next-generation subcompact car in Michigan rather than in  South Korea. Sixty percent of the workers at the Orion plant, those with ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Costs of Rising Inequality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/05/AR2010100505535.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Although much of the Republicans'"Pledge to America"  is given over to a discussion of economic issues, there is one topic  that is never mentioned: the dramatic rise in income inequality. As with  global warming, Republicans seem to have decided that the best way to  deal with this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bleak Truth About Unemployment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090706644.html?hpid=topnews</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Somewhere between the rantings of the Republican right, which is peddling the nonsense that excessive government spending is to blame for high unemployment, and the Democratic left, which clings to the false hope that another helping of fiscal stimulus is all that is needed to get...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Meeting BP: Why Didn't This Happen 6 Weeks Ago?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/15/AR2010061505432.html?hpid=topnews</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The big question about President Obama's sit-down Wednesday with BP's Tony Hayward is, "Why didn't this happen six weeks ago?"You'll pardon my breaking from the media pack on this one, but I really don't give a damn how much anger Barack Obama can muster about the BP spill, or how...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mammogram Cave-In Set Back for HC]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/19/AR2009111904053.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius did a marvelous job this week of undermining the move toward evidence-based medicine with her hasty and cowardly disavowal of a recommendation from her department's own task force that women under 50 are probably better off not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wall Street Bunglers Take a Mulligan]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wall Street Herd Is At It Again]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073004115.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tax Fantasies of the Right and Left]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/16/AR2009041604462.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fixing Wall St. Starts With Confession]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/07/AR2009040703675.html?hpid=topnews</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the past year, as the nation has engaged in a heated debate about how we got into the current financial mess and how we're going to get out of it, there's been one group noticeably missing from the conversation: leaders of the big Wall Street firms.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Krugman is Wrong About Bank Rescue]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/23/AR2009032302800.html?hpid=topnews</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It fills me with a sense of despair that Paul Krugman is now "filled with a sense of despair."

Even before the Treasury Department released details of its plan to buy up unwanted bank assets, the Nobel Prize-winning economist was writing in his New York Times column that the plan was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wall St.'s Dangerous Refusal to Learn]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/17/AR2009031703022.html?hpid=topnews</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Balances Optimism &amp; Urgency]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022500046.html?hpid=topnews</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama climbed Capitol Hill last night and staked his presidency on bringing the nation out of its economic crisis.

Not since Franklin Roosevelt delivered his first fireside chat, eight days into his presidency, have Americans been more hungry -- and more desperate -- for economic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Be Silly: All Spending is Stimulus]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/05/AR2009020503413.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stumbling on a Sense of Entitlement]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/03/AR2009020303634.html?hpid=topnews&amp;sid=ST2009020303652&amp;s_pos=</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tom Daschle still doesn't get it.

John Thain never did.

Barack Obama gets it sometimes, Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner not so much.

Corporate executives think they get it but aren't even close.

College presidents, governors and union leaders, for the most part, don't have a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Expensive, Dangerous - and Necessary]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/15/AR2009011503845.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Labor Pains Are Not Easily Shared]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/30/AR2008123002836.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Big Three's Stalemate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/02/AR2008120203212.html?hpid=topnews</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Pearlstein</author>
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