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December 29, 2008
Who doesn’t like to see taxes cut? Well, it depends on who gets the cut.
A Dec. 28 “NBC Nightly News” segment about President-elect Barack Obama’s incoming administration took on the issue of the “top domestic concern, the economy.” According…
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December 22, 2008
21 December 2008
Editor, The New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
You report that more companies are reducing their contributions to employees' 401(k) retirement accounts, saying that this "move will hurt savings…
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December 20, 2008
See Executive Summary
Even in the midst of an election and Wall Street crisis, oil and gas prices have been front and center in 2008. The huge spike in both commodities was followed by a greater collapse in those prices in recent months.
When…
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December 20, 2008
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The incredible spike in oil and gas prices was a huge story in 2008. Consumers struggled as a gallon of regular gasoline soared from nearly $3 to $4.11 by mid-summer. Network news shows bombarded viewers with more than 500 stories…
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December 19, 2008
Pumped Up Prices
Gas and oil prices have collapsed despite media predictions they
would both spike much higher. In more than 500 oil and gas
stories one thing is obvious you are…
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December 19, 2008
Just how bad is the economy? ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” went all the way to Edwardsburg, Mich. to find out.
The Dec. 18 broadcast of “World News” highlighted a new economic indicator – the increase in the number of people willing to…
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December 18, 2008
Unprecedented snow in Las Vegas has some scratching their heads – how can there be global warming with this unusual cold and snowy weather?
CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers had never bought into the notion that man can alter the climate and the Vegas…
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December 18, 2008
Editor, The New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Bravo for Roger Cohen's explanation that market economies work by creating new firms, new products, new processes – and that these creations are both the source of our…
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December 18, 2008
In an attempt to pit “us” against “them [Wall Street]” Rachel Maddow mocked and criticized the rate at which Goldman Sachs was taxed this year.
The MSNBC host of “The Rachel Maddow” show lamented that the investment bank Goldman Sachs, which…
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December 18, 2008
Even in a story about Wall Street scandal, NBC found time to promote a bailout of the auto industry.
The Dec. 17 “NBC Nightly News” went out of its way to put the amount of Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion fraudulent Ponzi scheme in…