Outside the Beltway

The President is apparently getting ready to take yet another ill-advised step in his ill-advised, economically illiterate trade war.

Despite Republican hopes, the tax cuts passed by Congress in December are not manifesting themselves in increased wages.

The 34-year-old Facebook tycoon is now worth more than 87-year-old Warren Buffet.

Federal law protects internet companies from liability for statements written by others.

The ill-advised move is sure to raise costs for businesses and consumers and roil global stock markets.

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 213,000 in June and the unemployment rate rose to 4.0 percent.

The National Debt has passed $21,000,000,000,000 for the first time in history just as the nation begins its return to the era of trillion dollar budget deficits.

Donald Trump’s trade war continues to have negative consequences for American consumers and businesses.

California’s legislature has moved to block localities from imposing taxes on soda and other sugary drinks.

Once touted as an example of his deal-making prowess, Harley-Davidson sent a rebuke to President Trump by announcing it was moving some manufacturing to Europe to counteract the impact of his ongoing trade war.

Not surprisingly, Canadians aren’t too thrilled with Donald Trump these days.

Three months after it started, the Trump Trade War is already starting to have a negative impact on American businesses and American consumers.

President Trump once said that “trade wars are good and easy to win.” It’s only been three months since he started this war and we’re already finding out just how wrong he is about that.

Donald Trump wants Republicans to make his immigration policies the centerpiece of the midterm campaign. What could possibly go wrong?

Words mean things. Unless they don’t.

Not surprisingly, Canadians aren’t very happy about President Trump’s attacks on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Donald Trump’s approach to international trade has nothing to with economics and everything to do with politics and the culture war he loves to provoke.

In the end, it may be insurance companies that have the biggest voice in the debate over arming teachers. 

The Federal Government will borrow more than $1 trillion this year for the first time in more than a half-decade.

According to reports, President Trump is preparing to go to war against luxury German cars.

The President teased the Jobs Report an hour before it was officially released. This was both a violation of Federal law, and yet another example of this President violating long-established norms governing how politicians are supposed to act.

May’s jobs report was stronger than the previous two months, but not entirely great.

President Trump is setting off another trade war, this time with some of America’s closest and most important allies.

Hours after she unleashed a racist Twitter tirade, Roseanne Barr has had her show canceled by ABC. Of course, ABC knew who it was doing business with well before today.

American companies are struggling to comply with the EU’s new privacy regulation, with many outlets choosing to simply block access abroad.

The Federal Reserve sees the economy staying relatively the same for the foreseeable future, which is both a good and bad thing.

The former President and First Lady have struck a first-of-its-kind agreement to produce a wide variety of content for Netflix.

In their first year as an NHL expansion team, the Las Vegas Golden Knights have managed to do something that’s only been done once before in any of the ‘big four’ professional sports leagues in the United States.

President Trump continues his unhinged, and unsupported by facts, war on Amazon and its owner Jeff Bezos by pressuring an independent agency to raise shipping rates.

For some reason, the President wants to help a Chinese company that has been accused of being a security risk by American intelligence services.

The Postal Service is losing billions of dollars, but not for the reasons the President claims.

The unemployment rate hit a point unseen since Bill Clinton was President in April, but jobs and wage growth remain tepid at best.

It takes a whole lot of work to net small gains for underrepresented groups.

The first estimate of economic growth in the first three months of 2018 beat expectations slightly, but it doesn’t bode well for the immediate future.

Ford, GM, and Chrysler are all moving almost exclusively to trucks, SUVs, and crossovers.

Ring Lardner said he would “rather write for the New Yorker at five cents a word than for Cosmopolitan at one dollar a word.” A century later, he’d be lucky to get those rates.

The Supreme Court heard argument yesterday on the issue of whether online sellers can be required to collect sales taxes, and the status of the issue remains as confused as ever.

The next time you sign a credit card receipt could be the last.

Republicans have been hoping that the tax bill passed in December would help them in the midterms. That’s appearing to be less and less likely by the day.

Mark Zuckerberg’s second day before Congress was somewhat more contentious than the first, but at the end of the day it’s still unclear that more regulation is the answer to the issues raised by recent Facebook “scandals.”

Dueling data on civil service compensation belie the adage that you can’t choose your own facts.

Not surprisingly, a joint Senate Committee failed to really lay a glove on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at yesterday’s hearing.

We’re set to return to the era of trillion dollar budget deficits, and Republicans won’t do a thing about it.

Trump’s tariff plan isn’t going over well in farm country, and that could cause problems for the GOP in November.

Speaking of trade war talk…

The DJIA (and other markets) are not too happy about all of this trade war talk.

President Trump is continuing his dangerous and misguided trade war rhetoric,

March’s Jobs Report fell far short of expectations.

Begun the trade wars have.

News anchors at dozens of local stations owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group were recently required to read a script mandated by corporate headquarters, and it’s leading to some bad media coverage for Sinclair.