Outside the Beltway

Mid-Week Tabs

· Wednesday, March 18, 2026 · 10 comments

SaturTabs

· Saturday, March 14, 2026 · 7 comments

Jobs Report

· Thursday, February 12, 2026 · 12 comments

A better than expected January, but downward revisions for 2025.

SaturTabs

· Saturday, January 17, 2026 · 21 comments

NYE Tabs

· Wednesday, December 31, 2025 · 5 comments

Saturday Morning Tabs

· Saturday, October 4, 2025 · 7 comments

The Argentine Bailout

· Friday, October 3, 2025 · 7 comments

Brought to you by the “America First” crowd.

Lazy Sunday Tabs

· Sunday, August 31, 2025 · 10 comments

TGI Tabs!

· Friday, August 8, 2025 · 5 comments

Hot August Tabs

· Friday, August 1, 2025 · 14 comments

Tabby Thursday

· Thursday, July 10, 2025 · 6 comments

The Real Costs of Reactionary Politics

· Tuesday, July 8, 2025 · 41 comments

Looking backwards in the energy sector.

Court Takes Away Trump’s Tariff Toys

· Thursday, May 29, 2025 · 21 comments

Well, most of them.

A Few Empirical Observations on Trump’s Economic Claims

· Thursday, May 8, 2025 · 23 comments

Facts are stubborn things.

PSA: How to Avoid Being a Hack

· Sunday, May 4, 2025 · 26 comments

Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

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Skewed Incentives

· Sunday, April 13, 2025 · 12 comments

An increasingly muddled tariff system.

NYE Tabs

· Tuesday, December 31, 2024 · 5 comments

Tabs for Thursday

· Thursday, December 12, 2024 · 15 comments

Friday Tabs

· Friday, February 23, 2024 · 42 comments

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Food Prices Under Biden and Trump

· Saturday, November 11, 2023 · 49 comments

We shouldn’t be surprised that Americans have noticed their grocery bill.

Yellen Again Rejects Trillion Dollar Coin

· Monday, January 23, 2023 · 19 comments

A silly workaround to an infuriating problem that won’t go away.

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Zealots and Pluralists

· Tuesday, January 3, 2023 · 19 comments

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

Biden Warns Democracy at Stake

· Thursday, November 3, 2022 · 44 comments

Is the President governing like he means it?

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Hard to Say I’m Sorry

· Saturday, July 23, 2022 · 31 comments

Columnists write bad columns apologizing for bad columns.

Why is Inflation So High?

· Friday, July 22, 2022 · 18 comments

The economy, it turns out, is complicated.

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