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• Slots, Md.'s Off-the-Track Cure-All

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Slots, Md S, Off The Track, Cure All, Maryland, Martin O Malley, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Pimlico, Steven Pearlstein, Kiwanis International, Veterans Of Foreign Wars Of The U S

  What does it say about the state of Maryland that for the last 22 years, the most urgent and persistent political issue -- the question that has spawned hundreds of legislative committee hearings, consumed hundreds of hours of legislative debate, generated millions of dollars in campaign...

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• Post's Pearlstein: Fred Thompson a 'Joke,' and a 'Nothing-Burger'

  Published: October 10, 2007, 11:51 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Budget, Fred Thompson, Steven Pearlstein, Cnbc, Washington Post

  Business section. Today's Steven Pearlstein column delivered the almost universal left-wing outlook on yesterday's GOP debate. It was bad enough that moderator Chris Matthews didn't ask enough business/economy questions - choosing instead to dwell on capturing Osama or inside baseball about politics. But Pearlstein took a noxious outlook on

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• Inova Looks Beyond Local Dominance

  Published: October 12, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Inova, Looks, Beyond, Local, Dominance, Fairfax, Northern Virginia, Virginia, Inova Health System, Arlington, Cleveland, Eugene Trani, George Washington, Richmond, Steven Pearlstein, Cedars Sinai Health System, Fairfax County, Fairfax Hospital, Hughes Medical Institute, May

  One of the most successful businesses in the Washington area isn't technically a business at all -- it's a not-for-profit named Inova Health System. Over the past 40 years, what started out as a loose affiliation of three community hospitals in Fairfax County has transformed itself into the dominant...

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• Transparency Is Key To Super SIV

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Transparency, Key, Super, Siv, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Holdings, Henry M Paulson, Steven Pearlstein, Wall Street, Cayman Islands, Georgetown University, Guernsey, U S Department Of The Treasury, U S Federal Reserve

  Only on Wall Street -- and in its political annex, the U.S. Treasury -- could someone think that the way to prevent a meltdown in structured investment vehicles is to create a giant structured investment vehicle.

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• Time to Stand Up to Wall Street

  Published: October 31, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Time, Stand, Wall, Street, Wall Street, Ben Bernanke, U S Federal Reserve, United States, Merrill Lynch Amp Co Inc, Steven Pearlstein, Look Wall Street

  Remember all those stories about how the nose dive in financial markets was the first big test for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, the academic economist who was still developing his feel for the interplay between the central bank and Wall Street?

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• Citigroup and Prince: Too-Risky Business

  Published: November 7, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Citigroup, And, Prince, Too Risky, Business, Charles Prince, Citigroup Inc, Wall Street, Enron Corporation, Merrill Lynch Amp Co Inc, Jared Harris, Robert Carraway, Sandy Weill, Charlottesville, Mci Inc, Dallas, Latin America, Steven Pearlstein, Darden School Of Business

  CHARLOTTESVILLE Poor Chuck Prince. For the past five years, he thought his job was to clean up the ethical mess at Citigroup left by his longtime friend and patron Sandy Weill. As Weill was taking his leave of the financial behemoth he had created, state and federal officials were moving to put ...

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• Here Passing the Plate, There Passing the Buck

  Published: November 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Here, Passing, The, Plate, There, Buck, Alabama, Texas, Nebraska, Bob Goodlatte, United States, Colorado, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia, Musgrave, Steven Pearlstein, U S House Committee On Agriculture, U S House Of Representatives

  "Oh, Lord, as we prepare to tuck in to our annual feast of pumpkin soup, roasted turkey, cornbread stuffing, creamed onions, cranberry relish and pecan pie, let us give thanks to the American farmer -- the farmer who has brought this bounty to our table and the farmer who has once again stuck us ...

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• Inflation Echoes From Abroad

  Published: December 12, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Inflation, Echoes, From, Abroad, China, United States, U S Federal Reserve, Asia, Shanghai, South America, Steven Pearlstein, Wall Street, U S Department Of Commerce

  The Federal Reserve disappointed Wall Street yesterday with its measly quarter-point reduction in interest rates. Yes, the Fed said, credit conditions have deteriorated and a recession is possible, but with consumer prices likely to end the year up nearly 4 percent, we're not exactly in the target...

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• Over an Insurance Barrel

  Published: January 25, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Over, Insurance, Barrel, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, Maryland, Citigroup Inc, Credit Agricole Sa, Enron Corporation, Lehman Brothers Inc, Mci Inc, Merrill Lynch Amp Co Inc, Societe Generale Sa, Baltimore, Steven Pearlstein, Wall Street, Wilbur Ross, U S Federal Reserve

  Imagine that you buy a house with mostly borrowed money -- a mortgage -- and the lender insists that you take out fire insurance to protect your house and his collateral.

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• Failure In Need of A Theory

  Published: February 8, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Failure, Need, Theory, Robert H Frank, Adam Smith, Ilan Kremer, Peter Demarzo, Ron Kaniel, Charles Prince, Citigroup Inc, Albert Einstein, Alfred Marshall, Steven Pearlstein, Thomas C Schelling, Thorstein Veblen, Wall Street, Cornell University, Stanford Universit

  A century ago, Albert Einstein revolutionized physics with his theory of relativity, which suggested that while the fundamental laws of Newtonian physics were useful for many purposes, they broke down under certain extreme conditions.

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• Tough Math on the Hilltop

  Published: February 15, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Tough, Math, The, Hilltop, Georgetown, Wall Street, John Carroll, Pennsylvania, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Lehman Brothers Inc, Morgan Stanley, Capitol Hill, Steven Pearlstein, Washington Dc, Georgetown University, Port Authority Of New York And New Jersey, U S Federal

  As a good Jesuit, Bishop John Carroll, the founder of Georgetown University, would probably not have thought to look for God in the steepness of the yield curve.

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• There's the Beef

  Published: February 22, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: There S, The, Beef, Barack Obama, John Mccain, Wonkette Com, Alan Greenspan, Albert Einstein, Hillary Clinton, Steven Pearlstein, Harvard Law Review, Harvard Law School, United Nations

  During the course of our endless presidential campaigns, lots of silly things are said by the candidates and the press. But few are more ridiculous than the idea that Barack Obama is just an empty suit.

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• Inova Follows the Money

  Published: February 29, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Inova, Follows, The, Money, Anu Gupta, Northern Virginia, Fair Oaks, Virginia, Dean Montgomery, Georgetown, Loudoun County, Inova Health System, Steven Pearlstein, Washington Dulles International Airport, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Fair Oaks Hospital, George Mason

  Our good friends at Inova Health System are at it again.

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• Outrage Is Wasted on Boeing's Snub by the Air Force

  Published: March 7, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Outrage, Wasted, Boeing S, Snub, The, Air, Force, Boeing Company, Airbus Sas, Northrop Grumman Corporation, John Mccain, The Pentagon, United States, Kansas, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Camp David, Gordon England, Sam Brownback, Steven Pearlstein, The White House

  Boeing is one of the great American companies -- an export powerhouse, a technology leader, the creator of hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs and a source of U.S. military power. For those who've stuck with it, its also has been a great long-term investment.

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• Hypocrisy That's Hard to Bear

  Published: March 28, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Hypocrisy, That S, Hard, Bear, U S Federal Reserve, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, Barney Frank, Chuck Grassley, Max Baucus, Federal Housing Administration, Iowa, Montana, Capitol Hill, Hillary Clinton, John Mccain, Steven Pearlstein, Wall Street, U S House Committee On Fina

  Well, isn't this rich: Max Baucus of Montana and Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Senate Finance Committee are suddenly in a lather that taxpayer funds might be implicated in the Federal Reserve's rescue of Bear Stearns.

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