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#37 Steven Pearlstein

The Washington Post

Steven Pearlstein has been a business columnist for the op-ed page of The Washington Post since 2003. He won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2008. More information


There are few columnists more skeptical of Wall Street and the unregulated market than Pearlstein, a liberal. He studies the intersection of government and business, believing partnership between the two is mutually beneficial. Pearlstein is one of the few columnists to have praised the government's handling of the Lehman Brothers collapse.

Pearlstein’s analysis of the financial crisis has earned him credibility, the close attention of officials within the Obama administration, and the admiration of the Pulitzer committee. In awarding its annual prize, the panel cited Pearlstein's "masterful clarity”; his columns throughout 2007 predicted the worsening of the mortgage crisis and sought to explain its connection to the wider world of credit. More recently, Pearlstein has weighed in on the health-care debate, in regards to which he is relentlessly critical of conservative positions.
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October 30, 2009
Wall Street and Banking

This Wall Street Fairy Tale Doesn't Have a Happy Ending

“If there is a moral to this tale, it is that finance alone cannot make a kingdom thrive and prosper.”
October 27, 2009
Health Care Reform

Path to Health Reform Paved with Trade-Offs

“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.”
October 25, 2009
Reforming Wall Street

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.”
October 21, 2009
Supreme Court

Trust-busting the NFL

“Americans would be better off if professional sports leagues and their teams were forced to compete -- on the field and off -- for fans, players, coaches, capital and public adulation.”
October 15, 2009
Big Business

Defections Expose Chamber's Dirty Little Secrets

“It's been a lousy week for Tom Donohue and his pals over at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.”
October 14, 2009
Reforming Wall Street

Don't Reinflate the Old Bubbles

“If [Wall Street] stumbles on a profitable trading strategy, the last person they are likely to share it with is you.”
October 2, 2009
Reassessing Capitalism

Rethinking Capitalism: How Very Enterprising

“Moore's 'love story' is really an oversimplified political melodrama based on half-truths, innuendo, fuzzy thinking and imagined conspiracies.”
September 30, 2009
Health Care Reform

Why Health Plans Should Be More Like Fire Insurance

“One of the aims of health reform should be to make health insurance more like fire insurance, reducing as much as possible the moral hazards and the cross-subsidies while protecting all Americans from medical catastrophe.”
September 25, 2009
Health Care Reform

A Health-Insurance Difference

“The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has put the reform back in health reform.”
September 18, 2009
Reforming Wall Street

Missing the Mark On Ratings-Agency Reform

“Call me simple-minded, but it seems to me that people who use a good or service should also be the ones who pay for it. That's how it works in most markets. And when it doesn't -- health care is a good example -- things tend to go awry.”
September 16, 2009
Wall Street and Banking

What Kind of Judge Stands Up For Truth and Justice?

“Come to think of it, maybe Rakoff is exactly the kind of activist judge we need more of, not less.”
September 11, 2009
Reforming Wall Street

Wall Street's Mania for Short-Term Results Hurts Economy

“It's now clear that the benefits of all that efficiency and liquidity are captured largely by the Wall Street middlemen rather than their customers, or the economy as a whole.”
September 9, 2009
Health Care Reform

Time for Obama to Stand Tall

“At some point [Obama] needs to look straight into the eyes of those who would have him fail and promise to do whatever it takes to break the partisan stranglehold and make health-care reform a reality.”
September 4, 2009
Bank Bailouts

Lehman Brothers Failure May Have Saved Us All

“Far from being a mistake, letting Lehman fail may have turned out to have been the best thing Paulson and Bernanke could have done.”
September 2, 2009
Wall Street and Banking

So You Just Squandered Billions . . . Take Another Whack at It

“It's hard to believe that large organizations could really go from being smart and honest one day to being stupid and deceitful a year later.”
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