Outside the Beltway

Free parking is a very inefficient use of land resources that wouldn’t exist without government mandates and subsidies. Is it time to end the practice?

A year ago, President Obama was emphatically against raising taxes during the recession — even on the rich.

The average federal government employee earns twice as much as the average private sector worker. An outrage? Not so much.

Attractive women face discrimination when applying for “masculine” jobs. The benefit from their attractiveness in all other jobs, however.

For-profit universities are defrauding their students. Indeed, it’s their business model.

Lenders and Borrowers seem poised to make the same mistakes that brought about the last Housing Bubble all over again.

Paul Krugman’s Medicare projections don’t line up with what the actuaries are telling us.

Another bad jobs report demonstrates that the “recovery” is an illusion for many people.

Council of Economic Advisors chair Christina Romer becomes the latest senior official to leave the Obama White House.

If you needed more proof that our tax system is far too complicated, consider the case of Alex Rodriguez’ 600th home run ball.

Congress has been wrestling with the net neutrality issue for years. Two major players may force a decision soon.

If lawyers and MBAs don’t understand their mortgage documents, what chance do the rest of us have?

The Democrats are pulling a trick from the Reagan playbook for the fall campaign. They might want to rethink that.

In arguing against lifting liability caps on offshore drilling, the Wall Street Journal is arguing against both moral responsibility and the free market.

Twenty-five years after retiring as President Reagan’s Budget Director, David Stockman is back with a scathing indictment of Republican fiscal policies over the past four decades.

General Motors, and Barack Obama, are betting the future on a car that may be nothing more than an electric lemon.

The latest GDP numbers are nothing but bad news for Democrats.

The concentration of policy wonks in the Washington-New York-Boston corridor produces skewed analysis.

If you’re buying your gold from Glenn Beck, you’re a fool.

Some lawyers make a fabulous salary right out of law school. Most don’t.

Megan McArdle cites an academic article someone disagrees with, proving she’s a dishonest hack.

Congress and the White House are starting to stake out sides in the upcoming battle over extending the Bush tax cuts.

84 of 91 European banks passed their stress tests. How will investors react?

A rare case of a headline underhyping the story: “Survey: Half of Journalists Think Their Offline Publications Will Eventually Fold.”

Most research shows that unemployment benefits/insurance increases the duration of unemployment.

The inside story about a crappy wireless network’s loveless marriage with a beauty queen phone.

Steve Jobs took the heat off his crappy iPhone 4 by pointing out that other phones suck in different ways.

It’s a myth that the problem with Social Security is that people are living much longer after retirement than they used to. The reality is that a whole lot more people are living long enough to draw benefits.

Yet another “hidden” provision of ObamaCare is revealed to hold nasty surprises for America’s small business owners.

Recent debates over the economic and fiscal impact of the Bush tax cuts indicate that Republicans still haven’t learned the lessons of the Bush years.

Unpaid internships aren’t education and give kids of wealthy, well connected parents even more advantages. Should we get rid of them?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reporting that the CPI declined 0.1% last month. This makes for the third straight month that the CPI has declined. Is there reason to think that there is widespread deflation in the economy?

Nobody can really say whether the stimulus worked — or even define “worked” — but that doesn’t stop them from issuing pronouncements.

You’ve probably seen a lot of these signs popping up lately.

PBR is going upscale for the Chinese market.

The Washington DC area has the nation’s highest incomes.

The Senate’s stonewalling of unemployment benefits extension makes no sense.

Remember all those suddenly accelerating Toyotas ? Now, we’re learning the rest of the story.

The Department of the Interior has, unwisely and unnecessarily, reimposed the ban on deep water offshore drilling.