Outside the Beltway

It’s going to be a long four years.

Trump is like a child with a new toy.

Some comparative data.

Or is that low-T(rump)?

Voters in Mexico, India, and South Africa are making their voices heard.

Most of the biggest countries in the world have birth rates below replacement level.

Are we avoiding facing hard truths?

Novo Nordisk is worth more than home country’s Denmark annual GDP.

Shockingly, most people aren’t economists.

What happens if a corrupt man who owes hundreds of millions is President?

Post-Covid recovery edition.

Yet more evidence the man is unfit to serve as Commander-in-Chief.

Plus an observation on news coverage.

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

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

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

The Eurozone is falling further behind the United States.

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

He’s turned Russia from a G-8 member to an international pariah.

France shines new light on an old problem.

The appetite for more resources approaches infinity.

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

Prices are coming down but they’re way higher than they were.

The Fed is expected to stall the economy to fight inflation.

They’re hitting civilian targets partly because they can’t hit military ones.

The Schumer-Manchin compromise includes a massive increase in the tax collection budget.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

Not every argument can be tested on a Pinocchio scale.

The equivalent of Pennsylvania’s entire labor force is sitting on the sidelines.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

The Lone Star State is celebrating its independence in a big way.

The data on Sweden and Covid-19 don’t fit the media narrative.

Usually candidates don’t talk about how bad things are across the country while appealing to be re-elected.

The pandemic is having serious effects in the region, and they will persist for some time.

Trump’s irresponsibility continues.

Thoughts on Biden’s low profile and Trump’s daily exposure.

Or just a bump in the road?

It would be laughable, but the White House might be interested.

A key economic statistic that rarely gets widespread public attention is showing that the manufacturing sector has been in recession for four months now.

The economy grew an anemic 1.9% in the third quarter according to the first estimate of the state of the economy over the summer.

Trump’s error in Syria.

Don’t worry folks, we’ll make it past that mark quite easily over the course of the new Fiscal Year.

President Trump and the Republican Party have spent the last three years lying about the Federal budget deficit and the economy.

Donald Trump lies with the ease that the rest of us tie our shoes. Will that fact have an impact on voters?

The economy slowed somewhat during the second three months of 2019, but the economic recovery still looks strong as we head into the 122nd month of positive growth.

Not surprisingly, the President’s opening speech of the 2020 campaign was filed with lies.

The current economic recovery turns ten years old this month, but it can’t last forever.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting the American economy, American consumers, and American businesses.

If the economy remains strong, then Democrats could find it harder to beat the President than they thought.