Outside the Beltway

Anticompetitive practices in one of the most competitive of markets.

A century-old cartel has been broken.

The pandemic ruined everything.

Post-Covid recovery edition.

It’s great for the well-off but increasingly problematic for the larger economy.

The numbers continue to be strong.

The experience keeps getting worse.

The S&P and Nikkei are at all-time highs. Economists warn that it won’t last.

The food is too damn high!

The NLRB has sided with Dartmouth players on unionization.

An interesting consumer benchmark.

Cost cutting and the decline of venerable brands.

The US is doing better than peer economies.

Plus an observation on news coverage.

They don’t make ’em like they used to.

A well-meaning concept with obvious pitfalls.

A chart to ponder.

Economic Chart Edition.

Prices are way up, even though the CPI is back under control.

Continued disjunctures between perceptions and the indicators.

…and the perceptions thereof.

We shouldn’t be surprised that Americans have noticed their grocery bill.

Contrary to some public opinion, the economy is in decent shape.

Can generosity be wrong?

A short-term win for creatives and a longer-term loss?

A joke(?) gone a-rye.

The President and his predecessor are heading to Detroit.

Germany’s economy is among the worst in the OECD.

Americans have largely stopped using checks and are rapidly doing the same with cash.

The President’s support for labor and aggressive action on climate change are in tension.

How something so promising became so frustrating.

The push to return to the office comes with domestic consequences.

The airlines hate hidden city ticketing and are cracking down.

Xi’s government is taking a drastically different approach to the slowdown.

The average new vehicle is now $48,000. And huge.

The current business model is collapsing. It’s about time.

The oldest state institutions of higher education are spending money to make money.

They average more than any other occupation and considerably more than their European counterparts.

A new book looks at the confluence of geography and disadvantage.

Good news for the economy.

After other controls are applied, household income is still a huge advantage.

The Eurozone is falling further behind the United States.

Our long national nightmare is over.

Should businesses have to include taxes and other fees in their advertised price?

The evidence is pretty thin.

What the numbers tell us about remote work and productivity.

The President is trying to change perceptions ahead of the election.

It’s just as possible to live on one income as it was in 1970. But not really.

All states but one receive more in federal money than they pay out in taxes.