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Cave-in on testing hurts reform

This is an old issue that has not only sharply divided the medical community for more than 20 years, but also taps into deep resentments among women who, over the years, have felt neglected by a male-dominated medical establishment. And there's no ...

From STEVEN PEARLSTEIN, The Washington Post,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  American Cancer Society,  Washington Post Company,  White House

How a medical revolution may transform Northern Virginia

Even as Washington policymakers struggle to reform the country's health-care system, about 20 miles away in Fairfax County, Dietrich Stephan is hatching a plot to revolutionize it. The current system, as everyone knows, is the world's costliest machine ...

From STEVEN PEARLSTEIN, The Washington Post,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Institutes of Health,  George Mason,  George Washington University,  Tim Kaine,  U.S. Republican Party

The Fed's airheaded bubble orthodoxy

The Federal Reserve is still going through its "lessons-learned" exercise from the recent financial crisis, but there's one lesson it clearly has not yet absorbed -- the one about ignoring and enabling credit bubbles. That's the only ...

From STEVEN PEARLSTEIN, The Washington Post,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Reserve,  Newsweek,  Nouriel Roubini,  Ben Bernanke

Want real reform? Let's start with Congress.

By now most people have heard the story of the frog that's put in a pot of cold water on a hot stove and doesn't notice as it is gradually boiled to death. The story may not be true: Most frogs apparently will jump out of the pot at some point. But it ...

From STEVEN PEARLSTEIN, The Washington Post,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Congress

In the name of jobs, bad ideas

Unfortunately, what they're proposing to do is to spend a lot of money that they don't have in ways that won't work to help too many people who are neither desperate nor deserving. Topping the list of idiotic ideas is the bipartisan push to reinflate ...

From STEVEN PEARLSTEIN, The Washington Post,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Heritage Foundation,  Goldman Sachs,  Barack Obama,  Brookings Institution

Steven Pearlstein: Business v. labor story getting old

In one, unions use their power to strike to win wages, benefits and job protections that are so excessive that companies become uncompetitive and lose market share to imports or nonunion competitors, or are forced out of business. By the time the ...

From STEVEN PEARLSTEIN, The Washington Post,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ford Motor Company,  Boeing,  General Motors,  Chrysler,  Airbus

This Wall Street fairy tale doesn't have a happy ending

Once upon a time, there was a magical kingdom whose capital markets were ruled by two firms known as Goldman and Morgan. Each firm earned $1 billion a year in trading profits. By custom, 25 percent of these profits were shared with the employees, ...

From STEVEN PEARLSTEIN, The Washington Post,  29 Oct 2009

White House and insurance industry battle over health reform

It's not exactly clear who started the political mud fight between the White House and the insurance industry over health reform. What's clear is that it is in nobody's interest. This Story Path to health reform paved with trade-offs Wednesday, Oct. 28 ...

From STEVEN PEARLSTEIN, The Washington Post,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: White House,  U.S. Democratic Party

Pay restrictions may not fix underlying risk-taking

With financial markets booming even as Main Street is still largely mired in recession, policymakers in Washington on Thursday were scrambling to contain growing populist anger by proposing new rules to curb runaway pay on Wall Street. Treasury pay czar ...

From STEVEN PEARLSTEIN, The Washington Post,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Citigroup,  Federal Reserve,  Andrew Hall,  General Motors,  Goldman Sachs

Steve Pearlstein: It's time to break the NFL's monopolies

What do you call a business that consistently overcharges its customers for an inferior product, hires the wrong people and pays them above-market wages, and yet still manages to be one of the most profitable and valuable franchises in its industry? ...

From STEVEN PEARLSTEIN, The Washington Post,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: NFL,  Dan Snyder,  Washington Redskins,  FedEx,  SIX FLAGS INC

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