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In the name of jobs, ideas that won't work

With the throw-the-bums-out results of this week's elections and the prospect that the unemployment rate is about to break through the 10 percent mark, politicians in Washington are desperate to show that they're doing something about jobs.

2008 Pulitzer Prize

Steven Pearlstein won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. The following columns were submitted for the prize:

• Yesterday Brought to You By the Irrational Herd (Feb. 28, 2007)

• 'No Money Down' Falls Flat (March 14, 2007)

• Making a Play For the Dumb Money (March 21, 2007)

• Industries Could Take Cues From Hollywood on Self-Control (May 9, 2007)

• The Takeover Boom, About to Go Bust (June 13, 2007)

• Credit Market Weight Puts Economy on Shaky Ground (Aug. 1, 2007)

• New Order Ushers in A World of Instability (Aug. 10, 2007 )

• Running Right Back to the Bank (Aug. 22, 2007)

• The Art of Managing Risk (Nov. 28, 2007)

• It's Not 1929, but It's the Biggest Mess Since (Dec. 5, 2007 )

A tired story: Business vs. labor (By Steven Pearlstein, November 4, 2009)

This Wall Street fairy tale doesn't have a happy ending (By Steven Pearlstein, October 30, 2009)

Path to health reform paved with trade-offs (By Steven Pearlstein, October 28, 2009)

Pay restrictions may not fix underlying risk-taking (By Steven Pearlstein, October 23, 2009)

Trust-busting the NFL (By Steven Pearlstein, October 21, 2009)

Defections Expose Chamber's Dirty Little Secrets (By Steven Pearlstein, October 16, 2009)

Don't Reinflate the Old Bubbles (By Steven Pearlstein, October 14, 2009)

Rethinking Capitalism: How Very Enterprising (By Steven Pearlstein, October 2, 2009)

Why Health Plans Should Be More Like Fire Insurance (By Steven Pearlstein, September 30, 2009)

A Health-Insurance Difference Without a Distinction (By Steven Pearlstein, September 25, 2009)

Steven Pearlstein: A New Bubble of the Fed's Creation (washingtonpost.com, September 23, 2009; 8:39 AM)

A New Bubble Of the Fed's Creation (By Steven Pearlstein, September 23, 2009)

Steven Pearlstein: Missing the Mark on Ratings-Agency Reform (washingtonpost.com, September 18, 2009; 11:02 AM)

Missing the Mark On Ratings-Agency Reform (By Steven Pearlstein, September 18, 2009)

What Kind of Judge Stands Up For Truth and Justice? (By Steven Pearlstein, September 16, 2009)

Wall Street's Mania for Short-Term Results Hurts Economy (By Steven Pearlstein, September 11, 2009)

Time for Obama to Stand Tall (By Steven Pearlstein, September 9, 2009)

Lehman Brothers Failure May Have Saved Us All (By Steven Pearlstein, September 4, 2009)

So You Just Squandered Billions . . . Take Another Whack at It (By Steven Pearlstein, September 2, 2009)

Kennedy Saw Health-Care Reform Fail in the '70s (By Steven Pearlstein, August 28, 2009)

The GOP's Top Chef Starves a Beast and Poisons a Debate (By Steven Pearlstein, August 26, 2009)

Commercial Credit Crunch Means We May Not Be Out of This Yet (By Steven Pearlstein, August 21, 2009)

It's Time to Give Up On the Public Option (By Steven Pearlstein, August 19, 2009)

Rethinking the Fed Chairmanship and Weighing Who's Right for the Job (By Steven Pearlstein, August 14, 2009)

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