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July 2, 2010
The June jobs report was released July 2 showing a tiny decline in the unemployment rate to 9.5 percent, but a depressing 125,000 overall non-farm payroll jobs lost.
CNN’s “American Morning” reacted with an appropriately downbeat report, but the…
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April 6, 2012
Each
month before the jobs report is released by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, the hosts and guests of CNBC make predictions about the
payroll employment number and unemployment rate.On April 6, when the March data
was released Steve Liesman…
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June 6, 2011
The very disappointing May jobs report took many in the media by surprise. The 54,000 jobs added were less than one-fourth the size of April's job gains, and reporters immediately reacted to the "less than expected" gains and complained about the "…
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April 11, 2012
The March jobs report which showed only 120,000 jobs gained, when roughly 200,000 were expected, was a disappointment and some reason for concern about the recovery, according to The Washington Post.But on left-wing MSNBC, there were “silver linings…
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April 17, 2012
The media keep saying that the economy is recovering, that austerity NOT debt is a problem, and that the
arguments against Obamacare are “weak.” But
many of this nation’s job creators completely disagree. Small business owners
are still…
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April 18, 2012
The
mainstream media rarely like the very rich, but billionaire Warren
Buffett is the exception. The Berkshire Hathaway CEO remains unscathed,
even adored by the liberal news media due to his liberal politics.After
all, it was Buffett who called…
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April 27, 2012
It
was nearly three years ago that the U.S. Senate last passed a budget,
despite the need for a clear plan to tackle debt and spending issues.
The anniversary of that last budget is April 29, 2009. Since that time,
the media have repeated the…
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May 4, 2012
About 45,000 fewer jobs were added in April than economists expected,
and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 percent due to more than a
half million people giving up the job search. CNN Money reacted with the
headline “hiring fizzles.”…
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November 8, 2007
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More than 600,000 homes are currently in foreclosure; both houses of Congress and the president have proposed different bailout plans for the mortgage “crisis;” and Americans are drowning in $2.4 trillion worth of red ink.…
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May 15, 2012
The
New York Times continued and old media theme of complaining about the
volume of student debt on May 13 with its front page story: “A
Generation Hobbled by College Debt.”Times
writers Andrew Martin and Andrew W. Lehren began the 4,647-word…