Outside the Beltway

An ad boycott has the Facebook co-founder down to his last $82.3 billion.

The Commonwealth is the first state in the nation to issue regulations.

A brand dating back to 1889 is being retired.

The lockdowns are ending and likely not coming back.

The venerable magazine is following industry trends. Is the billionaire owner a monster?

More Americans are out of work than at any time since the Great Depression.

Some inchorent musings about a massive question.

Contrary to some expectations, Americans are logging three extra hours of work a day.

We’re putting people in an impossible position.

Unintended consequences of a necessary policy.

Or just a bump in the road?

A well-intentioned idea that may be out of hand.

It’s not greedy hoarders after all.

Progressive policy and constituent interests collide.

Everything is easier with money.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Finally.

The President tweeted, “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.”

American’s online sales leader is straining under the social distancing regime.

This is no ordinary recession.

While the impulse is understandable, it defeats the purpose.

Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should go to jail.

Social distancing is a lot easier when you’re affluent.

A sign of the times.

Listen to this guy.

Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos alone have lost $15 billion in net worth since January.

People who should know better are making ridiculous claims.

The greatest crisis the nation has faced in my lifetime.

There are two theories, neither of them good.

Trading has resumed after an early plunge triggered automatic suspension.

Fears have reduced demand for public transit.

A law professor makes a bad argument in favor of a pet policy.

We seem to be in a new reality. Will readers accept it?

This is bigger than President Trump’s incompetence.

The mega-billionaire commits to a path quite different from the fake billionaire currently in office.

Several trends are pointing in a new direction.

It’s literally the equivalent of buying a large pizza for the average American household.

Our measures for preventing abuse of our social welfare system are preventing those who need it most go without.

More fallout from the consolidation of media brands.

Thursday night’s Democratic debate drew the lowest numbers of any of this season’s debates.

After an online backlash, The Hallmark Channel has reversed its decision to ban ads featuring a lesbian couple.

The Hallmark Channel caved to the complaints of a small group of so-called Christians who objected to a television commercial.

China and the U.S. have reached an initial trade deal that averts billions of dollars of new, inadvisable, tariffs, but the devil is in the details.

New polling shows that the American public does not support the President and his trade war.

Paul Volcker, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board who put an end to the rampant inflation that threatened to choke the American economy, has died at 92.

November saw much higher jobs growth than economic analysts were expecting, but it could just be a statistical blip.

President Trump said this morning that he’s fine with letting his trade war with the rest of the world continue all the way to the 2020 election.

A key economic statistic that rarely gets widespread public attention is showing that the manufacturing sector has been in recession for four months now.

The Butterball Turkey Hotline still thrives even in the era of the Internet.