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October 6, 2015
Squawk Box co-host Joe Kernen lit into writers at The Huffington Post Tuesday morning for their poor understanding of basic economics..
While The Huffington Post celebrated a record low in global poverty, it also decried the Trans-Pacific…
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October 13, 2015
Although there is not an openly avowed socialist in the White House yet, one banking expert told CNBC “we’re well on the road to socialism.”
Richard Bove, vice president of equity research with Rafferty Capital, did not mince…
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October 14, 2015
Recent rulemaking by the EPA, if found to be constitutional, will regulate levels of carbon dioxide produced by power plants in each state.
However, CNBC Squawk Box co-anchor Joe Kernen reminded viewers of carbon dioxide’s popularity in an…
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December 8, 2008
The media love to assign blame for financial hardship, but it’s rare that they turn the microscope on themselves like columnist David Carr did in The New York Times Dec. 8.
In a front page column of the Business Day section, Carr noted…
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November 21, 2008
If you watch television, you’ve almost certainly heard of the damage your “carbon footprint” supposedly does to the environment. NBC’s “Today” show took the metaphor a step further Nov. 21 by warning viewers about their “water footprint…
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November 6, 2008
If at first you don’t succeed in convincing viewers global warming is a problem, try, try again. That must be the NBC “Today” show’s motto.
The morning show crew announced Nov. 6 it will air the second annual “Ends of the Earth” feature…
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November 4, 2008
The last week before the 2008 Presidential Election gave the broadcast networks one more opportunity to give viewers real information on the candidates’ economic proposals, but instead they obsessed over polls and horse race coverage by nearly…
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October 23, 2008
The U.S. media have hesitated to connect government mandates for biofuels to higher food prices, but one British financial publication’s two-part series finally shed some light on the ethanol ‘bubble.”
The first report in the Financial…
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October 1, 2008
Academic economists sit alone in their ivory towers, insulated from the world around them and oblivious to reality – at least according to CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer.
“One-hundred-and-sixty-six academic economists signed a letter…
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September 30, 2008
In their continuing effort to cast the economy as “Wall Street versus Main Street,” many in the media have criticized the proposed $700 billion bailout of financial institutions as rewarding “fat cats” who made bad investments.
But CNBC…