Outside the Beltway

Trump’s attempt to fix the balance of trade will almost surely end up leaving us all worse off.

Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellin hinted strongly today that we’re likely to see another interest rate increase this month.

Travel industry experts are reporting a noticeable drop in international travel and tourism since Donald Trump was elected President.

An ambitious plan to return men to the Moon in less than two years.

Budget hawks in the GOP face a showdown with Donald Trump’s spending ambitions this year that will likely decide whether we’ll ever get spending under control.

After a year long experiment, Playboy is bringing nudity back.

With two votes last night, President Trump’s Cabinet is coming together.

Technology continues to make more and more jobs unnecessary and irrelevant. And the consequences are going to be widespread.

There were 111.3 million people tuned into the Super Bowl on Sunday, slightly lower than last year.

The first Jobs Report of 2017 saw healthy jobs growth in January, but there are signs we may be reaching a point where hiring could slow down.

A Super Bowl ad will cost you a cool $5,000,000 for thirty seconds.

Megaprojects are not a partisan thing. Megaprojects are large projects typically costing more than $1 billion and often tens of billions of dollars and impacting the lives of tens of thousands of people if not millions.

Yet another example of why Trump and his views on Trade and the economy are contradictory and even incoherent. Not only should Trump be building his Great Trump Wall™ in Mexico he should be furiously working against any and all foreign investment in the U.S.

There are two ways (at least) to have cars in America.

Yet more incoherent economic policy from the Tweeter in Chief. A border tax will mean that Americans will undoubtedly pay for at least part of the Great Wall of Trump™.

The Great Wall of Trump™ is almost surely going to be a disaster, the question remains how big of a disaster will it be.

President Trump reverses a decision made by President Obama just over a year ago.

A long-standing staple of American culture will soon be no more.

A tepid December jobs report tops off a tepid year.

In a break with President-Elect Trump, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said Congress would block any effort to increase tariffs.

The economy grew strongly in the third quarter of the year, but it doesn’t seem likely to last.

The Federal Reserve Board raised interest rates for only the second time in a decade, but it still seems like it’s chasing an inflation monster that doesn’t exist.

Another month of solid but not spectacular jobs growth seems to guarantee that the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates this month.

On Tuesday night the Establishment won and won yuge. (From new OTB contributor, Michael Bailey)

Another month of resilient, but not noteworthy, jobs growth.

Initial reports for the third quarter show strong economic growth during the summer;

The September Jobs Report continues to show an economy that is growing to some degree, but hardly growing as fast as it should be.

Tuesday night’s running mate debate had lower viewership than any such encounter in sixteen years.

A new study debunks an old idea.

The minimum wage has been a big part of this year’s election cycle, mainly due to Bernie Sander’s campaign and his idea of a national minimum wage. There has been lots of discussion of this, but most of it is just, well, bad. There are really two things that one can point to as to why wages above the market wage can be good.

The idea that Donald Trump has gotten his racialized rhetoric from libertarians is simply errant nonsense. The libertarian view, broadly speaking, is not defined by Murray Rothbard, Llewellyn Rockwell, and Ron Paul and those who share their views. This is but a small and even fringe group of what could be called the libertarian community.

Roger Ailes’s sexual harassment has led to Fox News paying out some big dollars.

Another sign of a weak economy as the Federal Reserve considers rate hikes and the Presidential campaign moves forward.

Despite being much more conveniently located for viewers in the United States, viewership for the just-concluded Olympics were the lowest they’ve been in sixteen years.

Remember Peak Oil? Whatever happened to that idea?

Donald Trump engages in some nice post hoc ergo propter hoc by implying that the decline in manufacturing jobs in North Carolina is due to NAFTA. Ignoring that other factors are more likely playing a far greater role in the loss of manufacturing jobs.

It is a misguided and foolish attempt to try and buy votes without appearing to buy votes.

There’s nothing compasssionate about protectionism.

Responding to comments on this morning’s post.

On the left and the right, there’s been a resurgence of a long-ago discredited economy theory.

The July Jobs Report was largely a continuation of the good news from June, but the question is how long that can last.

Big change at America’s most-watched cable news network.

As the allegations of sexual harassment grow, reports are also growing that Roger Ailes may be out at Fox News much sooner than many may have anticipated.

We’re further from a public option than we were in 2009. The need for it has become more acute.

A good month for job growth in June.

If the allegations of a new lawsuit are true, things are truly lurid behind the scenes at Fox News Channel.

The Financial Crisis was not a problem of macroeconomics, but a cluster of microeconomic problems all acting together.

The head of the Federal Reserve tells Congress that the economy is unlikely to enter recession this years, but isn’t exactly going to be booming either.

Once again, the Federal Reserve chooses to pass on the opportunity to raise interest rates.

The May Jobs Report was bad all-around. The question is whether this will come to be seen as an anomaly or the beginning of a worrisome trend.