Investing should be like watching paint dry or grass grow. If you want thrills, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.” These are the ...

Paul Samuelson, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in economics, once placed the invention of the index fund alongside the invention of the wheel, the alphabet and Gutenberg printing. He made ...

Paul Solman reflects on the life and work of economist Paul Samuelson, who died Sunday at the age of 94. He was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in economics. Paul Samuelson, America's first ...

Economist Paul A. Samuelson, 94, who won a Nobel Prize for his effort to bring mathematical analysis into economics, advised presidents since John F. Kennedy on tax policy and wrote a textbook read by ...

Nobel-winning American economist Paul A. Samuelson died Sunday, spurring words of praise and fond remembrance from across the spectrum. Economic commentary is often sharply divided and hotly disputed, ...

Paul F. Samuelson, 77, an artist and former advertising director for the educational publisher Science Research Associates, died Wednesday, October 17, of advanced Parkinson’s disease. Mr. Samuelson ...