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March 10, 2008
Although the news that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was involved in a prostitution ring was greeted with shock in most circles, Wall Street had a different reaction.
According to CNBC New…
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March 10, 2008
The media are quick to blame everyone – especially lenders – except borrowers for the subprime mortgage “crisis.” The March 9 “CBS Evening News” found another way to demonize home lenders instead of the borrower who took on…
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March 7, 2008
If you watch the news, you’ll see financial hardship examples for everything – home prices, food prices, energy prices – you name it. “NBC Nightly News” found another downbeat economic problem to harp on – the lack of funds…
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March 7, 2008
The subprime lending “crisis” has already led to a record rate of home foreclosures, so why do the media continue to exaggerate already disappointing statistics?
In an egregious…
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March 6, 2008
The subprime “crisis” has been blamed for a lot of things – a supposed recession, the fall of the dollar, a spike in energy and food prices, etc.
But James Carville, a longtime friend…
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March 6, 2008
When a gas station sign shows up on TV, you can bet the price shown is higher than the national average. That was true again as NBC “Today” co-host Ann Curry reported March 6.
“Oil prices…
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March 6, 2008
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia two weeks ago and has much work to do in building its economy. But the top challenge might be environmental groups opposed to mining the natural resources that are the nation’s greatest asset.
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March 5, 2008
It’s clear the media routinely ignore scientists who disagree with popular theories related to global warming. But could they possibly ignore a gathering of hundreds of scientists, economists and other experts who disagree with the idea that…
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March 5, 2008
All three networks’ evening news broadcasts utterly ignored a gathering of hundreds of people – scientists, economists, other experts and interested lay people – aimed at dispelling the media myth that there is “consensus” on climate change’s…
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March 5, 2008
Do journalists have axes to grind with business and capitalism? ABC ‘20/20’ co-anchor John Stossel says so.
Stossel spoke before an audience at the Heartland Institute’s 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 4 in New…