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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 is at work on a history of Seattle in the 1930s. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Anne.
Politics

Fixing Social Security, A Primer

With the help of a calculator, I cut benefits by 50% and raised Social Security taxes by 48%. Congress will have to make such choices by 2033.
International

Frontline’s ‘America and the Taliban’: “Not in the Public Interest”

In Afghanistan and Vietnam, the United States wanted a modern, pluralistic government more than the people there wanted such a thing. The government we supported was, in local terms, an exotic and alien species. In each case, a flood of U.S. dollars watered a hothouse of urban wealth and a rot of dependency and corruption, especially in the country’s army.
Cities

City Light’s Long Covid: Delinquent Customer Accounts

City Light suspended disconnects in March 2017. By 2020, when Covid hit, it still hadn’t resumed disconnects. For household accounts, disconnects were not restarted until last October.
Food

Black Cod, the “Wagyu Beef” of the Sea — Soon Raised in Northwest Waters?

The question now is not whether black cod aquaculture can be done, but “the willingness of society and government” to allow it. Salt-water fish farming has its opponents.
Business

Is Seattle Making it Impossible to be a Small Landlord?

City of Seattle data show the number of rental units consisting of houses and small apartment buildings (20 units or less) fell by 17 percent between July 2018 and August 2022.
Politics

Is The Washington State Legislature About to Declare Microsoft a “Foreign-Influenced” Company?

The bill would label as a “foreign-influenced corporation” any company in which a foreigner or foreign institution owns 1 percent or more of the stock. The much-feared Norwegians own 1.13 percent of Microsoft.
Business

As Banks Fail, Some are Demanding Tighter Regulation. Sure, But…

We’re not going back to the world before deposit insurance, but there needs to be a limit to the government’s liability if banking is to remain a private-sector activity.
Business

Parallels? The Small Oklahoma Bank That Took Down Seafirst

There is one sense in which Silicon Valley Bank is another Penn Square. The failure of the little bank in Oklahoma City 40 years ago was an omen of a nasty recession.
Politics

Port of Seattle: The Seas of Social Justice

The more the commissioners have focused on the new things, the less they could focus on the old ones.
Business

Cashing in CHIPS: A Skeptic Casts a Wary Eye

The rush to save the world’s most advanced semiconductors recalls the fight in the late 1960s and early 1970s over the Supersonic Transport. That didn't work out well.
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