Outside the Beltway

Another mostly disappointing report on the state of the economy.

While the conspiracy theory is nuts, there are legitimate reasons to be skeptical of some elements of September’s Jobs Report.

Getting to the heart of the problem from my POV (plus historical numbers).

Don’t hate the player, hate the game (more or less, anyway).

Newly released statistics indicate that the economy is slowing down and in danger of slipping into a recession.

Several recent polls suggest that Mitt Romney is losing the advantage he had over the President on economic issues.

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

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

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

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

What if things don’t ever get better?

The new Red Dawn promises to be even sillier than the first.

Doug Saunders makes the counterintuitive claim that things are better for Britons than ever.

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

Since Israel’s system is far more “socialist” by American rhetorical standards, I am not sure what his point was.

There are signs that the economy is slowing down so quickly that we may inevitably drift into recession.

The GDP report shows the economy slowed in the second quarter, to the surprise of nobody.

What happened in 1970 to decouple wages and productivity?

Mitt Romney has had a rough two weeks, but Barack Obama has to deal with a bad economy.

The people trying to undo the Defense Budget sequestration cuts are making some pretty weak arguments.

“The average Canadian has quietly become richer than the average American,” claims a pro-Canada organization.

The Bush tax cuts were much more progressive than you probably think.

Were the Colonists wrong to toss aside the British Empire so casually?

Another round of economic statistics suggests that we’re unlikely to see any real improvement between now and Election Day.

The President seems to think the private sector is doing fine. He couldn’t possibly be more wrong.

Health care is eating up 10 percent of the Pentagon’s budget and rising fast.

Another sign this morning that the economic has been slowing, and may be contracting.

A spate of bad economic news foretells a shift in the campaign for President.

It’s another bad jobs report for May, and time once again to wonder how much slower this economy can get.

The economic statistics aren’t pointing in a very optimistic direction.

Romney comes down firmly on the guns side of guns and butter.

China’s economic engine may be sputtering.

Mitt Romney is proposing one of the biggest peacetime increases in military spending in U.S. history.

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

A disappointing beginning to 2012.

We may have to deal with the debt ceiling again before the November elections.