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February 28, 2012
George Soros
has donated more than $8 billion globally to his Open Society
Foundations. Couple that with decades of investing around the world and
it would be easy to assume Soros in a figure of global popularity.
Only he isn’t. He’s almost the…
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March 16, 2012
It happens every spring. The players take their positions
for the big game. The fans start screaming as the huge numbers on the board go
up and up and up.
No, it’s not college basketball. It’s a madness of a
different kind, as anchors and…
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October 4, 2006
No matter how the economy is doing, the word 'recession' never seems too far away. CBS began the year with talk of a recession and similar discussion has cropped on up ABC and CNN throughout 2006 and even going back to…
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December 6, 2006
Testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
December 6, 2006
Subject: Global Warming and the Media
By Dan Gainor
The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow
Director, Business & Media Institute
Testimony to the Senate…
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November 27, 2006
Pity the poor 20-something – at least that’s what ABC and its partner USA Today seem to want to you to do. The two news organizations teamed up to portray young adults drowning in the “national crisis” of “college loans and…
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November 20, 2006
Even death isn’t a great equalizer at The Washington Post. Two of America’s most well-known economists died in 2006 – John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman. But there the similarities ended.
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November 17, 2006
Workers of the world unite – on the pages of The Washington Post Business section. The Post made the gathering easy, describing a huge union campaign to organize janitorial workers in Houston as a battle of “a $5.25-an-hour…
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November 13, 2006
The Washington Post came up with a new code phrase for rent control – “reasonably priced housing.”
In an article bemoaning the potential “loss of middle-income housing – and people” in…
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October 31, 2006
KFC announced it is cutting the trans fats from much of its menu, and the media celebrated not chewing the fat as “another giant step in the movement to make America’s food healthier.”
But that “…
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December 6, 2007
After Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s plan to rescue America from the “mortgage crisis” was revealed December 5, networks attacked the plan with left-wing criticism, saying that the costly plan would not affect “…