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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.
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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.
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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March 27, 2009
Media
In Hollywood, Reshaping a Business that Emerged With the Talkies
“Natural advantages can disappear when an arrogant and insular industry comes to view its dominance as inevitable and its outsized compensation as an entitlement.”
March 25, 2009
Society
California's Wipeout Economy
“The recession hit [Southern California] earlier and harder than the rest of the country ... and chances are it will linger here longer.”
March 24, 2009
Wall Street and Banking
Optimism Over Despair
“Nationalization doesn't make the bad loans go away -- it simply moves them from the banks to the government, with the government on the hook for any additional losses.”
March 20, 2009
AIG Bonuses
Let's Put Down the Pitchforks
“Tens of trillions of dollars in wealth have been lost. All that's left is simply an elaborate exercise in settling up the accounts.”
March 11, 2009
Fiscal Policy
It'll Take More Than Money to Fix This Crisis
“What we are facing is the economic equivalent of a war ... It's a war we can win, but only if we have leaders and opinion makers who commit to difficult sacrifices.”
March 6, 2009
Economic Policy
There Is Now No Question: Region Is Not Recession Proof
“Washington may have turned up late and well-fortified to this recession, but there's no doubt now that it has arrived.”
March 4, 2009
Economic Policy
Debt Doesn't Have to Be a Burden
“There are times when it's necessary to make things worse in order to make them better.”
February 27, 2009
Economic Policy
A Budget Process Hijacked by Selfish Interests
“The essential insight of Barack Obama has been to see that these problems are inextricably linked.”
February 20, 2009
World Business
Asia, Europe Find Their Supply Chains Yanked. Beware the Backlash.
“If allowed to continue, this kind of financial protectionism will set the European economic project back a generation and suck all of Europe into a deep recession.”
February 18, 2009
Wall Street and Banking
Where Wall Street, Detroit Intersect
“It would be premature to declare that all of this adds up to a new model for American-style capitalism”
February 13, 2009
Health Care
Bloviation vs. Reality on Stimulus Health-Care Provision
“The coming battle over health-care reform is likely to be every bit as vicious and divisive as the one that defeated the Clinton health plan.”
February 11, 2009
Wall Street and Banking
Big Lessons in Finance From a Little Bank You've Never Heard Of
“How is it that Kim Price ... somehow managed to come up with a more creative use for his government bailout money than any of you?”
February 6, 2009
Stimulus Package
Wanted: Personal Economic Trainers. Apply at Capitol
“Spending is stimulus, no matter what it's for and who does it.”
February 4, 2009
Society
Stumbling on Their Sense of Entitlement
“It will ... require a commitment to shared sacrifice and mutual responsibility that we are only beginning to understand.”