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August 6, 2008
Julius Caesar’s decision to cross the river Rubicon touched off three years of bloodshed and strife that changed the Roman world. So it is (in less dramatic fashion) with the decisions Congress will make about whether and how to bail out Fannie…
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August 5, 2008
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain may be thrust into the public spat between House Republicans and Democrats over the Democratic leadership’s decision to take summer recess without vote on offshore oil drilling.
The…
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August 5, 2008
The Barack Obama presidential campaign couldn’t have scripted it better themselves.
The August 4 “CBS Evening News” gave a gleaming account of the energy plan Obama unveiled earlier in the day. Republican presidential candidate Sen. John…
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August 4, 2008
The price of oil continues to plunge – off more than $25 a barrel from its high. Naturally, someone was bound to credit … Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Only one problem, the financial expert who did so is…
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August 4, 2008
The broadcast networks just can’t get enough of the food police.
ABC joined in August 4 with a “Good Morning America” segment taken straight from a new report by the self-proclaimed food police…
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August 1, 2008
You have to give credit where credit is due.
On Aug. 3, 2007, CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer lost his cool about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s reluctance to cut key interest rates. A year later, his comments about Bear…
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August 1, 2008
The U.S. economy has just barely flirted with a recession, yet one business columnist sounded the death knell for entrepreneurial capitalism on August 1.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington…
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August 1, 2008
The media have made a habit of reporting record oil company profits with disdain rather than perspective; bitterness rather than accuracy.
That’s just how the July 31 “NBC Nightly News”…
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July 31, 2008
Just a couple shorts months ago, the media were preaching a doom-and-gloom scenario about the economic downturn – feeling a need to illustrate various ways of economic hardship.
BusinessWeek magazine even went as far as to launch a…
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July 31, 2008
Al-Qaida poses a bigger threat to the United States today than it did on Sept. 11, 2001, and the only way to prevent more attacks is to spend money on non-military international aid, according a July 31 speech by one-time presidential nominee…
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