Outside the Beltway

Making sure millionaires pay more tax than their secretary isn’t as easy as it sounds.

Paul Krugman seems to believe that something like the bubble economy we enjoyed until it burst in 2008 could be had again if only our leaders were sufficiently bold.

The economy continues to drag the President down.

Republicans have a plan to wrest half of the Keystone State’s electors from Obama.

With the economy at the forefront of the public’s mind, the GOP needs to be careful in its response to President Obama’s new jobs bill.

Not surprisingly, there was very little about the President’s jobs speech to write home about.

Democrats are fearing the President’s jobs plan will be underwhelming. Based on initial reports, it looks like their fears are well-placed.

Workers account for 80% of the Postal Service budget vs. 53% at UPS and 32% at FedEx.

The bloom is off the rose for some of the President’s most ardent 2008 supporters.

Obama’s economic policies are failing because he’s listening to conservatives – not small businesses.

The White House is still smarting over the fact that they got burned by John Boehner, again.

Details of the President’s jobs plan are starting to leak out, and they’re not looking impressive.

Repeating the “destruction creates wealth” fallacy every time there’s a natural disaster doesn’t make it any less of a fallacy.

My first piece for CNN has been posted at Fareed Zakaria’s Global Public Square.

Ben Bernanke didn’t offer many clues in his speech today, but one wonders if he really has any tricks left up his sleeve.

My latest for The National Interest is posted under the somewhat misleading headline “NATO Fails in Libya.”

Either a bunch of bloggers or one of the world’s smartest economists doesn’t understand economics.

The Telegraph’s chief political commentator sees moral decay at the top as well as the bottom.

Watching the news and reading the op-eds makes it clear: America is doomed.

We are being warned once again that the Postal Service is on the verge of financial collapse. There really is only one solution.

One year ago, Timothy Geithner said them things about the economy he probably wishes he could take back right now.

Now that America’s political leadership have probably averted a self-inflicted global economic calamity, it’s time to assess the winners and losers.

News that Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was a fan of anti-Islamist sites, including Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs has opened a big can of schadenfreude.

I’m continually shocked when demonstrably bright and accomplished people fall in love with authoritarian states.

President Obama smiled as he signed the 2009 stimulus into law, but the results aren’t anything to smile about.

The nation’s capital is the worst place to drive in the country. But it’s a surprisingly safe place to walk.

What was that, a joke about shovel ready jobs not being so shovel ready. Yeah unemployment a topic ripe for great comedy.

Austan Goolsbee is resigning as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to return to the University of Chicago.

Business Week’s cover story examines the coming implosion of the US Postal Service as we know it.

While President Obama has had some amusing gaffes on his trip to London, including getting the year wrong in the guest book and an awkward toast to the Queen, his speech to Parliament today hit all the right notes.

Thousands of pedestrians are killed in America each year. Are we doing enough about it?

I get the impression that a lot of people don’t even know what “the 1967 borders” are or why they tend to be considered the logical point of departure for any type of peace negotiations.

Why in the hell are Federal taxpayers footing the bill for residential trash collection in DC?

Philip Greenspun wonders, “How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall?”

Can the massive destruction caused by the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdowns stimulate the economy?

Republicans begin to discover that defeating an incumbent President isn’t an easy task.

Is Saudi Arabia the next domino to fall in the Middle East? The Royal family is hoping that money will be enough to make sure that doesn’t happen.

The continuing chaos in Libya could have a serious impact on the U.S. economy, especially if it spreads to other oil producing nations.