Outside the Beltway

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani tops the latest CNN poll of Republican presidential contenders.

When one realizes that Trump is basically a brand, rather than anything else, his PR foray into politics makes more sense.

Requiring people with ethical conflicts to disclose them leads to more bad behavior, not less, a new study finds.

Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg is catching some flak for complaining that he’s “struggling like everyone else” despite a net worth in the millions.

Three years later, there are no signs that the real estate market is anywhere close to recovering.

You thought the birther insanity was over? Silly you.

Will days of strong economic growth ever return? And what happens if they don’t?

President Obama chided the media for paying too much attention to the birther issue, but his criticism was unwarranted.

Charles Krauthammer called Donald Trump the “Al Sharpton” of the GOP presidential primary contest

What is Donald Trump up to? Only he seems to know for sure.

Donald Trump figures that, because he’s rich, he’s qualified to be president.

Donald Trump is waiting to announce whether he’s running for president until after taping of “The Apprentice” concludes. Some thing NBC shouldn’t allow him to wait.

Is our current economic situation the result of massive government intervention? The Randians certainly think so.

Mitt Romney forcefully said Tuesday night that he believes President Barack Obama was born in America and that “the citizenship test has been passed.”

Donald Trump has been surging in polls of Republican voters recently, but that doesn’t mean much of anything.

The U.S. housing market is a long way from the glory days of the housing bubble, and that’s a good thing.

The next-generation iPhone 5 is rumored to have a 4 inch screen and even a slide-out keypad.

The in-dash CD player is being rapidly phased out.

Knowing his downfall was imminent, the former Egyptian dictator moved vast wealth out of rich of Western governments.

Wealthy Manhattanites are clamoring for a new status symbol: their own washer and dryer!

Food prices are rising in China. For us higher food prices mean we get fat a little more slowly; for a poor Chinese family it means starvation stalks a little closer.

Another round of GDP growth figures are out, and they show that the U.S. economy continues to grow far slower than necessary to sustain job growth. Is this a temporary problem, or something we can expect to live with for the foreseeable future?

Banks are faced with a huge number of foreclosures and that resources they’ve allocated towards handling them was woefully inadequate.

Are we facing a Sharia take-over?

Mary Anastasia O’Grady takes Jeffery Golodberg to task over his interview with Fidel Castro. Much hilarity (or, at least, poor analysis) ensues.

President Obama told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, “Long before America was even an idea, this land of plenty was home to many peoples. The British and French, the Dutch and Spanish, to Mexicans, to countless Indian tribes. We all shared the same land.”

For many reasons, the housing market is unlikely to fully recover for the foreseeable future.

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?

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

Some number of people are staying married while living separate lives. This is, apparently, news.

You’re invited to attend President Obama’s birthday party. That’ll be $30,000.

Those with million dollar plus mortgages are defaulting at almost twice the rate on those smaller loans. Are the rich more ruthless?

The real estate market is returning to normal after being artificially stimulated by a tax credit.