|
February 3, 2010
As the old cliché goes, you don’t use a sledgehammer to crack a nut, but according to Rick Santelli, that’s exactly what it appears the Obama administration is doing terms of financial regulation and fiscal discipline.On CNBC’s Feb. 2 broadcast of “…
|
January 29, 2010
The government’s traditionally enforced safety standards on automobiles sold in the United States. But the government didn’t always own a car company. So you’d expect the media to take a hard look when the government’s roles as regulator and…
|
September 25, 2008
A 20 percent drop in the Dow could happen, according to CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer, unless the government passes this bailout plan.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed at 10,825…
|
September 26, 2008
Conservative House Republicans and economists warn about the toll a $700 billion federal bailout of the financial sector would have on the taxpayers footing the bill. But according to Bloomberg TV analyst Marc Faber, the…
|
January 28, 2010
President Barack Obama encouraged some business interests by mentioning nuclear energy and offshore drilling during his Jan. 27 State of the Union speech. Those less popular energy solutions joined the usual alternative rhetoric of wind, solar and…
|
January 26, 2010
It was initially thought the election of President Barack Obama was just going to hit your pocketbook in the form of higher taxes. But if the past several days are any indication, the president has found another way to hit it – by attacking your…
|
September 25, 2008
Are the ideals that made this country great in jeopardy? They must be as far as former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw’s is concerned. Are the ideals that made this country great in jeopardy?…
|
January 25, 2010
It’s curious to see people in the mainstream media try to make sense of the Tea Party movement. The New York Times, which once called the Tea Parties a psychological phenomenon rather than a political movement, has now changed its tune.In the wake…
|
January 22, 2010
CNBC “Squawk Box” co-hosts Joe Kernen and Becky Quick understand public opposition to Obamacare. Unfortunately, their colleague John Harwood, who covers Washington, D.C. for the network, doesn’t.
On Jan. 22, Harwood appeared on the program to…
|
January 25, 2010
Is the luster finally wearing off the love affair between the White House press corps and President Barack Obama? It is, if CBS White House correspondent Chip Reid’s analysis of President Barack Obama’s latest Wall Street proposals is anything to go…