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October 4, 2006
October 3 saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average close at a record high of 11,727.34. The “CBS Evening News” saw economic trouble on the horizon.
While CBS’s Anthony Mason offered qualified praise for the market’s recent rally, he sowed…
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October 3, 2006
Five days after CNN’s Miles O’Brien painted Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) as a quixotic crusader against an overwhelming consensus on climate change, the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee got a chance to take on the…
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October 2, 2006
Praise the Lord and pass the tax bill.
The October 1 edition of ABC’s “World News Sunday” preached that the 51 houses of worship in Stafford, Texas, are a holy terror to the city’s finances, citing the mayor’s complaints about lack of tax…
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September 27, 2006
The Dow Jones had its second-best closing average ever and consumer confidence shot up, but CBS and NBC undercut the good news with speculation on hurricanes and “echoes” of corporate scandals.
“With gas prices dropping by the day,…
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September 26, 2006
On her September 24 edition of Global Players, CNBC’s Sabine Christiansen’s notion of a balanced panel was four global warming proponents versus one global warming skeptic.
“Scientists say we are reaching a tipping point. That if we don’…
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September 11, 2006
The Kyoto Protocol’s costs are coming as a shock to many German businesses and consumers. They’re finding higher utility costs resulting from their government’s implementation of the climate change treaty, The Wall Street Journal reported on…
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August 31, 2006
What a difference three days make. 72 little hours.
In that time, a New York Times reporter went from tolling the death knell of real wage growth to reporting a 7-percent wage jump over last year after inflation.
“[T]he current…
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August 29, 2006
“We’re working ourselves to death,” Diane Sawyer concluded from a new University of California study on blood pressure and work. But the “Good Morning America” host left out some key information in her August 29 interview with a cardiologist…
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August 29, 2006
“Life’s got to be a little better if gas is going down,” in price, teacher Lisa Craig told reporters in an August 29 Washington Post article on falling gas prices. But while Post staff writers Tomoeh Murakami Tse and Chris Kirkham found that…
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August 24, 2006
What goes up must come down. When you’re comparing lower prices to record highs, it’s difficult not to see a drop.
Unfortunately, media reports continue to ignore the fact that comparing current housing prices to the past few years…