Outside the Beltway

Does a little known provision in the 14th Amendment make the entire debt ceiling debate irrelevant?

A new Georgia immigration law is causing serious problems for Georgia’s farmers.

Are you better off than you were three years ago? 44% of Americans say no.

US News editor-in-chief Mort Zuckerman explains “Why the Jobs Situation Is Worse Than It Looks.”

More slow economic growth, the L-shaped recession.

The modern equivalent of selling ice to Eskimos.

Grover Norquist believes ending government handouts must be offset by tax cuts.

The gang at Fox Nation is amused that President Obama is blaming ATMs for high unemployment. But he’s right.

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

We might be looking at a potential fiscal crisis.

Rick Perry makes a valid point about bringing the economy back to Biblical principles.

Hillary Clinton is actively lobbying to be the next president of the World Bank, Reuters reports.

Charging soldiers $200 for an extra bag on their way home for war? Really Delta?

Tim Pawlenty’s new fiscal plan isn’t very grounded in reality.

How insurance makes health care more expensive

Is it possible to address the U.S. fiscal situation?

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

Is Peter Diamond qualified to be a Fed governor?

The housing market has changed over the past five years, and that’s a good thing.

The jobs market has been weak for much longer than just the past two years.

After several months where it seemed like things were turning around, the May jobs report was depressingly bad.

Unemployment was high when Barack Obama took office and it’s gotten substantially higher. Does that mean he won’t get re-elected?

Despite what appear to be the fond hope of European central bankers that it will just all go away, something needs to be done. But what?

And even more bad news.

All in all, not looking like it will be a fun summer.

In an op-ed in The Hill titled “Enviro elitists keep America unemployed,” Rick Manning of Americans for Limited Government argues that one factor behind the anemic jobs picture is the onerous regulatory environment.

Real Estate prices continue to fall, but where are the buyers? Maybe they’re acting sane this time.

It’s hard to get paid for work others will do for nothing.

Suddenly, it seems like every website known to man is foisting videos that play the instant the page loads on their readers.

A profile of George Mason economist and blogger Tyler Cowen offers this amusing description: “Cowen, 49, has round features, a hesitant posture, and an unconcerned haircut.”

Even before the individual mandate kicks in, the ACA has added hundreds of thousands of people to health insurance rolls.

“Our records indicate that your annual income for the 2011 taxable year was $2,170,000,000,000. You have requested a credit limit of $17,000,000,000,000. These figures exceed the American Public’s guidelines for credit issuance”

Business Week has a fascinating profile of Dietrich Mateschitz, whom they dub “Red Bull’s Billionaire Maniac.”