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Bruce Ramsey

Bruce Ramsey was a business reporter and columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the 1980s and 1990s and from 2000 to his retirement in 2013 was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle Times. He is the author of The Panic of 1893: The Untold Story of Washington State’s first Depression, and his most recent book is "Seattle in the Great Depression". He lives in Seattle with his wife, Anne.
Business

Good Times: The 1930s Seattle Stockbroker Who Cashed in While Markets Crashed

That in 1929-1931 neither The Times nor The P-I ever profile Paul E. Williams and his hot new company tells me that the man won’t talk.
Books

Abundance, Eh? Well, Here’s what that Means

The book’s central argument is that modern government, federal, state, and local — government created largely by Democrats — has made it hard to build anything, including the things Democrats want.
Politics

Why We Need a Too-Old-To-Serve Constitutional Amendment for Presidents

This is not a Democrat-and-Republican issue. It’s about power. The inner circle around the president — the group that in the Biden White House was dubbed "the Politburo" — do not serve the public. They serve him.
International

On a 50th Anniversary, Remembering Saigon its Echoes in Ukraine

The backstory was similar -- a rich foreign power trying and failing to suppress an insurgency in a country it didn’t really know.
blog

Why Trump is Right to Try to Make a Ukraine War Deal

For those of us old enough to remember the war in Vietnam, it’s eerie how familiar all this is. Then it was the left that wanted peace, and the right that denounced them as pinkos and commie lovers. Now the left denounces our right-wing president as a fascist and a Putin lover. The slander has changed sides.
International

The US has No Claim on the Panama Canal. It Belongs to Panama

It’s not only that our government, which built it, gave it to them. In the past quarter-century, Panama has invested billions of dollars building modern locks at either end.
Histories

Consequences: We Tried High Tariffs in the 1930s and the Result was Calamitous

America’s foreign trade fell by two-thirds in the Great Depression. It wasn’t all because of the tariff, but much of it was — and the plunge was in exports as well as imports. The one pays for the other; cut one, and you cut both.
Histories

Almost 100 Years ago a Young Seattle Woman Ventured to the Soviet Arctic, Got Stuck in the Ice and Became a Media Star

In 17 bylined stories for the New York Times, Marion Swenson tells of her life in the twilight and darkness of Arctic winter.
Books

Cabin in the Woods: A Coming of Age Tale

Recalling the author's youth “in the woods building tree forts,” he imagined building a cabin. In 2013, in his late 20s, he decided to act. He borrowed cash from his mom and bought a cabin listed on Craigslist for $7,500. 
Politics

In Defense of Tulsi Gabbard

Whether Tulsi Gabbard has all the abilities needed to be director of national intelligence I don’t know. She does have the sharpness and independence of mind to question “talking points” — our adversaries’ and, especially, our own.
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