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March 3, 2008
A job shortage is sweeping across the nation, impoverishing minorities and plunging the economy into a recession along the way … according to The New York Times. It would be stunning if only the numbers backed it up.
“As the economy slows…
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February 29, 2008
There’s nothing like a snide comment about President George W. Bush to make you feel better about paying more for food and energy.
But you’d expect a higher of level of decorum from the media, especially when they operate under the…
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February 29, 2008
When it comes to climate change the media often sound like a broken record – repeating gloomy predictions and calls for “action.”
In fact, some reporters have even made it their “mission” to prove that global warming will have a…
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February 29, 2008
Do you want to be “green cool”? It’ll cost you.
Time magazine’s global warming advocacy journalist Bryan Walsh wrote about Joe Harberg, “an energy-efficiency guru” who runs a business auditing people’s energy use and selling them “…
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February 29, 2008
Need more evidence the old-time mainstream media are becoming relics?
New York’s senior Democratic senator, Charles Schumer, told an audience the evolution of the modern Democratic Party and…
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February 29, 2008
Welcome to the Twilight Zone.
Fresh off of Bianna Golodryga’s “tidbits of good news” on ABC’s “Good Morning America” February 27, NBC “Today” show contributor Erin Burnett found her own economic “silver lining” February 29.
“Keep in…
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February 28, 2008
One day, Jim Cramer is playing cheerleader for the U.S. economy, the next he is playing cheerleader for the Democratic presidential candidates, Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Cramer, whose position on the American economy seems…
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February 28, 2008
Guess what – the sky isn’t falling, it’s just coming to a “near” fall.
Over the past couple a months, the Associated Press has filed many reports about the prospects of recession and the effects that just the scare of a recession has had…
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February 28, 2008
Finally, the media are connecting the dots and realizing the push for alternative energy is taking a toll on the American economy.
The Labor Department reported on February 20 that the Consumer…
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February 28, 2008
As the ceaseless recession talk continues, the language creep continues. Does it really matter whether it’s a “recession” or a “slowdown”?
“It’s so much about semantics,” Burnett said on the February 28 NBC “Today” show when host Matt…