Economics is not a museum of immortal models. It is a diagnostic discipline whose tools must match the condition of the economy under examination.

When index funds first launched in the 1970s, they faced a chilly reception. Critics derided them as “unAmerican” and “settling for average.” When Vanguard launched the first index fund available to ...

Melissa Silva and Shawn Samuelson are the parents of a son, Nathaniel Kingston Samuelson. He was born at 8:20 a.m. Dec. 26, 2025, at Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center’s Family Birthing ...

Discover Robert M. Solow's contributions to economics, including the Solow-Swan Model and the Solow Residual, plus his Nobel Prize-winning work on economic growth.

Joan Samuelson, an intellectual force and relentless local advocate for a cure for Parkinson’s disease, died Dec. 27 in Santa Rosa of the affliction whose cure became her life’s work. She was 75.

Boxing fans were gifted an early Christmas present Dec. 19 when Jake "The Problem Child" Paul faced off against former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and Paul was knocked out in the ...

He was a familiar byline in Newsweek and The Washington Post for decades, explaining the intricacies of economic policy in reader-friendly vernacular. By Michael S. Rosenwald Robert J. Samuelson, an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson in 2019. - (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) Robert J. Samuelson, who sought to ...

Robert J. Samuelson, who sought to explain the implications of unemployment, inflation and government spending to ordinary readers for more than 40 years as an economics columnist for The Washington ...

Jean Samuelson of Peoria, formerly of Buda, IL, died on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, at the OSF Richard L Owens Hospice Home. She was 91. Jean was born on September 29, 1934, in Dixon, IL, the fourth ...

Janice (Jan) Samuelson, 92, of Ames, Iowa, passed away Wednesday, November 12th, 2025, at Northcrest Heartwood House in Ames. Memorial services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, November 29th, 2025, ...

Is there a more annoying cliché in policy-wonk circles than “there are no silver bullets”? If so, it does not readily spring to mind. What those who intone this ritual phrase mean, of course, is not ...