Outside the Beltway

The City of Detroit appears ready to abandon vast sections of itself to the metaphorical jungle.

Does the fizzled out Facebook IPO tell us anything about the state of the economy? Not really.

It was supposed to be the return of the heady days of the great Tech Industry IPOs. But, things didn’t quite go as planned.

Ilya Shapiro asks, “If luxury stadiums were hugely profitable, why would the savvy businessmen who own the teams let the politicians in on the windfall?”

Yesterday, Cory Booker committed the rookie mistake of saying what was on his mind.

The private office is quickly becoming a relic, despite the loss of morale and productivity that comes from open floorplans.

Here’s why nobody in Washington will allow the Bush Tax Cuts to expire.

Eduardo Saverin has become a political whipping boy.

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin denies that his motivation for renouncing his US citizenship was tax avoidance.

An object lesson in the problems with our intellectual property laws

The Oval Office is nothing like a corporate boardroom.

A tough new Obama campaign ad highlights people who lost their jobs after a Bain Capital takeover–at a time Mitt Romney was not at Bain Capital.

Americans are getting pessimistic about the state of the economy again.

The next generation search engine may not point to Web pages at all.

Mitt Romney is being rightfully ridiculed for trying to take credit for saving General Motors and Chrysler.

If you agree to work for nothing, don’t complain you’re being “exploited.”

Once again, the jobs market appears to be slowing.

The economic tea leaves don’t look disastrous, but they don’t look all that great either.

A disappointing beginning to 2012.

Welcome to today’s Outrage Of The Day

Copy specific phrases and buzzwords from the job posting into the résumé and build them into the bullet points.

Once again, those predictions of $5.00 gas may have been much ado about nothing.

The Romney campaign is pushing back on the “Republican War on Women” meme with this infographic on “Women & The Obama Economy.”

There are advantages to cash that electronic transactions cannot replicate.

I have just, again, walked out of a doctor’s office after being kept waiting too long for an appointment.

The Obama administration admits its push for the “Buffett Rule” is not about dealing with our budget woes.

At the apex of the last economic boom, we were spending far less as a percentage of our income on food, clothing, and transportation than our predecessors of half a century before, with the surplus going mostly to education and health care.

The jobs picture–and thus the overall economic forecast–becomes much gloomier with the release of the March Labor report.

There’s a big hole in the latest sanctions against Iran.

The student-athlete fairytale is true. Except where you would reasonably expect it to be a lie.

The old have most of the money and power in our society, a trend that is accelerating.

Like it or not, what you do online will be of interest to someone looking to hire you.