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July 21, 2006
Instead of worrying about the burst of the “housing bubble” you might as well watch paint dry or your grass grow. CNN’s “American Morning” is no longer forecasting doom and gloom for the US housing market. On July 21 Gerri…
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January 14, 2009
A new, New Deal may very well be on its way, but one of FDR’s own New Deal creations, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), is in big trouble.Federally-owned TVA, the nation’s largest utility, recently made headlines for spilling more than a billion…
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January 8, 2009
It took pornography to hear some economic sense from CNN on the issue of bailouts.“American Morning” reported on Jan. 8 that Larry Flynt, of Hustler magazine, and Joe Francis, of Girls Gone Wild, sent out a press release Jan. 7 asking for $5…
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January 7, 2009
Chances are you’ve seen the PSAs telling you how to prepare for the end of analog television broadcasting on Feb. 17. If you still own an analog TV, the ads tell you, you must purchase a converter box and attaching it to your existing set.But it…
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September 23, 2010
Barack Obama was elected president of the U.S. with a lot of help, not only from the cheerleading liberal news media, but with the financial support of some business leaders.
But now some of those businesses leaders are feeling duped, according to…
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August 6, 2010
CNN “Newsroom” anchor Kyra Phillips reported the “breaking news” about July’s unemployment data just after 9 a.m. Aug. 6. Misreported would be more accurate.
“We begin with the breaking news this morning on a broken economy. We have new evidence of…
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August 4, 2010
On Aug. 6, everyone’s attention will be fixed on the release of July’s unemployment numbers. The national unemployment rate is forecast to increase to 9.6 percent, according to Bloomberg News’ survey.
The White House tried to get ahead of the…
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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 "…