Outside the Beltway

Washington has become the first state in decades to privatize its state-run liquor stores. They’ve coupled this with onerous fees on private distributors.

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

In, “Squeezing out the doctor,” The Economist looks at the future of medicine and sees a declining role for physicians.

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

Mitt Romney thinks prospective Presidents should be required to have business experience.

There may be only one solution to saving the Euro.

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

The Virginia Department of Transportation is seeking to raise money for toll roads through a user tax on their best customers.

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

Mark Zuckerberg left at least two Italian restaurants without tipping. Apparently, he read his guide books.

Contrary to what you’re hearing, the Facebook I.P.O. was a huge success.

The City of Detroit appears ready to abandon vast sections of itself to the metaphorical jungle.

Does the fizzled out Facebook IPO tell us anything about the state of the economy? Not really.

It was supposed to be the return of the heady days of the great Tech Industry IPOs. But, things didn’t quite go as planned.

Ilya Shapiro asks, “If luxury stadiums were hugely profitable, why would the savvy businessmen who own the teams let the politicians in on the windfall?”

Yesterday, Cory Booker committed the rookie mistake of saying what was on his mind.

The private office is quickly becoming a relic, despite the loss of morale and productivity that comes from open floorplans.

Here’s why nobody in Washington will allow the Bush Tax Cuts to expire.

Eduardo Saverin has become a political whipping boy.

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin denies that his motivation for renouncing his US citizenship was tax avoidance.

An object lesson in the problems with our intellectual property laws

The Oval Office is nothing like a corporate boardroom.

A tough new Obama campaign ad highlights people who lost their jobs after a Bain Capital takeover–at a time Mitt Romney was not at Bain Capital.

Americans are getting pessimistic about the state of the economy again.

The next generation search engine may not point to Web pages at all.

Mitt Romney is being rightfully ridiculed for trying to take credit for saving General Motors and Chrysler.

If you agree to work for nothing, don’t complain you’re being “exploited.”

Once again, the jobs market appears to be slowing.

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

A disappointing beginning to 2012.

Welcome to today’s Outrage Of The Day

Copy specific phrases and buzzwords from the job posting into the résumé and build them into the bullet points.

Once again, those predictions of $5.00 gas may have been much ado about nothing.