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January 14, 2010
13 January 2010
Editor, USA Today
Dear Editor:
Helen Ashworth writes that "Our current economic crisis is worse than the Great Depression" (Letters, Jan. 13). She's wrong. By no measure - rate of unemployment; decline in GDP; length of the…
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December 14, 2005
The Media’s Top 10 Economic Myths of 2005
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“So people at home right now are saying, ‘Economic slowdown? How slow is it going to go?’ Are we headed for another recession?”– Anchor John Roberts, “CBS Evening News,” April 15,…
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December 14, 2005
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It was difficult to wade through the economic news of 2005. Gloom and doom overwhelmed any rational examination of the U.S. economy. Journalists were so obsessed with their negative outlooks that they set aside reason and reported…
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December 8, 2006
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10. American manufacturing is obsolete Media myth: All the manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas, and the only ones left are in the almost empty plants of the Big Three automakers. 9. The American dream has become a…
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December 6, 2007
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10. Airlines are solely to blame for the unfriendly skies. Media myth: Blame the airlines for all those flight delays; never mind the obsolete government-run agency creating the gridlock.
The media were quite…
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September 16, 2009
Editor, Financial Times
Clyde Prestowitz makes his case for higher tariffs by slaying a strawman ("Obama can help free trade with tariffs," Sept. 10). According to Prestowitz, the case for free trade rests on "the assumptions that the markets are…
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