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April 8, 2009
King Midas could turn everything he touched to gold. President Obama has a similar effect on news coverage of his policies.Just look at the way broadcast journalists have covered (and covered for) Obama on the issue of taxes. It didn’t matter if he…
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April 1, 2009
Socialist International President George Papandreou has a lot in common with President Barack Obama.Both the world leaders have called for nations to come together to solve the global recession and both claim it is necessary to focus on a green…
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September 19, 2006
“Retailers See Strong Sales For Holidays” – New York Times, September 19“Holiday Sales Growth Expected to Decline” – Washington Post, September 19 It’s barely time to think about buying Halloween candy, but for The Washington…
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March 25, 2009
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is in trouble. He’s faced multiple controversies since his nomination, beginning with his own failure to pay all his taxes to his recent admission that Treasury was responsible for the A.I.G. bonus payouts.At…
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September 13, 2006
ABC’s Chris Cuomo took a quick shot at Wal-Mart in a brief news read on the September 12 “Good Morning America.” The news desk anchor informed his audience that “a so-called living…
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March 11, 2009
On Election Day 2008, as people anticipated Obama’s victory, global news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP), called the biggest Election Day rally since 1984 an “Obama effect.”Look at the market now: The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 3,…
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March 9, 2009
The U.S. is at war with the failing economy, according to Warren Buffett, who told CNBC viewers that it had “fallen off a cliff.”In September 2008, Buffett compared the market turmoil to “an economic Pearl Harbor,” and on March 9 he returned to that…
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March 4, 2009
Temperatures have plummeted to record or near-record lows in 32 states this winter. On March 2, a global warming protest in Washington, D.C. was buried by nearly a foot of snow. And a new study warns that the Earth could be in for a 30-year cooling…
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February 11, 2009
As in the 1930s, green-eyed populists are once again staring resentfully at the pay and lifestyles of corporate executives and demanding change.Democrats in Congress and the news media have long pushed for pay caps for the very rich. President…
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February 6, 2009
Negativity, particularly about the economy, flows from the news media these days in a near constant stream. So it was refreshing to find a few drops of good news on NBC and in Marie Claire magazine recently.NBC “Nightly News” examined the booming…