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September 24, 2008
Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children by Philip and Alice Shabecoff. Hardcover. 368 pages. Random House. List price $26.00.
There’s a cartoon that ran in the New Yorker a couple of years ago. Two cavemen are sitting cross-…
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September 24, 2008
It was just a matter of time. Now that government has taken over services normally offered by private corporations as a result of the recent series of bailouts, environmentalists have proposed green building…
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September 24, 2008
With the “meltdown” on Wall Street, it looks like global warming is striking the financial markets. Don’t laugh. It must have gone somewhere because it’s not doing as the left and the media had warned. Just a few months ago, supposedly…
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September 23, 2008
After an unprecedented week of economic ups and downs, CNN’s “In the Money” reassured consumers that a doomsday Depression is far from America’s economy. In fact, the September 21 “Emergency Edition” proved to be a refreshing burst of optimism…
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September 23, 2008
One of Sen. John McCain’s strategists called The New York Times a “pro-Obama advocacy organization,” on Sept. 22, and CNBC’s John Harwood just couldn’t understand why.
That was just “over-the-top,”…
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September 23, 2008
No need to decide on your own; “NBC Nightly News” has already determined which presidential candidate has the best tax policy.
The Sept. 22 broadcast offered in-depth analysis of the two presidential candidates’ tax proposals. But…
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September 23, 2008
All three broadcast networks have reported on the banking crisis that is threatening the stability of financial markets and the overall economy. But on September 22, the ABC “World News with Charles Gibson” used the crisis…
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September 22, 2008
Last week, CNBC Washington correspondent John Harwood estimated the crisis on Wall Street would benefit Sen. Barack Obama’s bid for the White House but on September 22, he suggested Obama’s race might outweigh that. …
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September 19, 2008
If you are the CEO of a private company that fails, prepare to be scrutinized by the media. If you are the CEO of a government sponsored enterprise (GSE), you don’t even get a mention.
In a September 19 “Good Morning America” preview of a…
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September 19, 2008
Has CNBC, the financial network of NBC Universal, become the funeral parlor of free-market capitalism?
Rob Cox, a former Bloomberg South Europe bureau chief who is now U.S.…