Outside the Beltway

Ben Bernanke thinks doing more of the same is just what the economy needs.

Spiegel has a photo gallery of novel ways to graphically illustrate the Euro crisis. My favorite:

Largely because they are resisting efforts to hold them accountable for their performance, Chicago’s teachers are leaving 400,000 students locked out of school.

Another bad jobs report threatens to undermine whatever good will the President had coming off the Democratic National Convention.

The Obama campaign’s 4.5 new private sector jobs claim is true, but only if you forget the first year of the Obama Administration.

Andrew Ross Sorkin says Facebook’s IPO was a debacle. Mark Cuban says this misunderstands the purpose of an IPO.

Some unpleasant news for the Democrats in a new poll.

Some surprising findings about how America’s undergraduates are paying for their education.

Technically, you don’t own your digital music files. That means you can’t transfer them to your heirs after you die.

The Obama campaign clearly does not want Americans to consider whether they are better off now than they were four years ago.

Paul Ryan pointed to a shuttered GM plant in his hometown as proof of Obama’s failed policies. The truth will make your head hurt.

Economic growth is the key to fixing many of our problems. Unfortunately, we’re not likely to see the kind of growth we need any time soon.

A graph on public debt making the rounds is being used to misdirect rather than clarify.

Mitt Romney visited an Ohio coal mine to promote jobs in the industry, unwittingly showing why a job in the industry sucks.

Jon Huntsman calls for an end to “unforced errors in immigration policy.”

Signs are brewing that the Chinese economy is slowing down significantly.

Bill Keith built a successful business making solar-powered ceiling fans. The President’s trade policies are in the process of destroying it.

Congress and the American people have a choice to make between two not very palatable options.

A new lawsuit from Google’s Motorola Mobility subsidiary seeks to bar Apple from importing it’s most popular products into the United States.

Think the auto bailout was a success? Think again.

Jon Corzine appears to be about to get a ‘Get Out Of Jail Free” card.

Has the Romney campaign foolishly abandoned its best argument against the President?

After two-and-a-half years and who knows how many taxpayer dollars spent trying to prove criminal wrongdoing, the SEC fell short.

The combination of falling oil prices and increased exports has the US trade deficit at its lowest point since December 2010.

While Washington dithers, business owners are starting to worry.

While you might think of Yale as an elite school, it’s business school is ranked 21st–below Michigan State’s.

What if things don’t ever get better?

One year ago, the U.S. lost it’s AAA credit rating with S&P. There doesn’t appear to have been any real impact from that decision.

Once again, we learn that hosting the Olympics doesn’t carry nearly the economic benefit the IOC wants host cities to believe it does.

Whether the reports are actually right—and they usually aren’t—voters are nonetheless going to treat them as if they are.

July’s Jobs Report was better than what we’ve seen the last few months, but it’s still not very good.