Economy

Julia A. Seymour | November 5, 2018

As voters head to the polls this Election Day, one thing on many of their minds is the U.S. economy. They just haven’t seen much of it on the network news.

The liberal media know the economy is one of the top issues for voters, yet…

Julia A. Seymour | November 2, 2018

With the election looming, the addition of a quarter million new jobs in October, grabbed headlines. But NBC Nightly News gave more than twice as much attention to the hot topic of celebrating Hollywood’s movie rating system.

On Nov…

Julia A. Seymour | October 30, 2018

With one week to the midterm elections, the Conference Board released its latest survey of consumers showing their confidence soared to an 18-year high and also found high expectations for early 2019. This might well surprise many news consumers…

Julia A. Seymour | October 30, 2018

The economy “charged ahead in the third quarter,” according to The New York Times.

But the good news didn’t make it into the broadcast evening news coverage on Oct. 26, even though it was one of the final big economic…

Julia A. Seymour | October 24, 2018

Tax and spend liberals are at it again.

Although there were huge benefits to the 2017 tax cuts including a rise in take-home pay for a majority of American wage earners’ and hiring or investment expansions at hundreds of companies,…

Julia A. Seymour | October 18, 2018

The stock markets were volatile in October, including an all-time Dow Jones Industrial Average high and some “major” falls. Unfortunately, the broadcast networks preferred to show the bad side of the economy.

The network…

Julia A. Seymour | October 9, 2018

Unemployment dipped to the lowest rate since December 1969 in September, but ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows only spent exactly one minute combined sharing the strong economic news.

In contrast, just one of those shows spent more than…

Julia A. Seymour | October 8, 2018

New York Democratic congressional candidate and “self-avowed” socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a liberal media darling with her $40 trillion wish list of government programs. Vanity Fair proved it again with its November issue.…

Julia A. Seymour | October 4, 2018

The absence of “climate change” or “global warming,” from the new United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) frustrated environmentalist groups, according to Huffington Post and EcoWatch. They also complained it…

Julia A. Seymour | October 3, 2018

Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell expressed optimism about the “extraordinary times” for the U.S. economy right now at an event with business economists on Oct. 2.

Powell said, “The economy is strong, unemployment…

Julia A. Seymour | September 20, 2018

Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos is now the world’s wealthiest man, and the liberal media love denouncing him for it.

They’ve also started telling him what to do with his money and power now that he’s begun giving some…

Julia A. Seymour | September 19, 2018

Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders has at least one media champion for his Stop BEZOS Act.

The bill, which is obviously targeting CEO Jeff Bezos of Amazon, would levy a 100 percent tax on companies in the amount their employees…

Julia A. Seymour | September 18, 2018

It was the $40 trillion question.

And once again, Democratic candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez refused to answer it.

Like other Democratic socialists and many progressives, Ocasio-Cortez has a long list of government giveaway…

Julia A. Seymour | September 10, 2018

Tesla CEO Elon Musk acting strangely and smoking marijuana took priority over an good economic update on jobs. Six times more.

ABC, CBS and NBC evening news programs on Sept. 7, spent more than 6 times as much of those broadcasts…

Julia A. Seymour | September 7, 2018

Authoritarian governments are known for having a boot on the neck of freedom. CNBC’s on air editor Rick Santelli said the Obama administration had a "boot on business."

Santelli was rumbling with former Obama official and…

Julia A. Seymour | August 30, 2018

Stocks set records, consumer confidence shot up, and economic growth estimates were revised up.

These three good economic news stories happened back to back to back on Aug. 27-29. Meanwhile, ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and…

Julia A. Seymour | August 15, 2018

The economy may look good now, but hold off on the “confetti,” says left-wing Salon.

While some people look for silver linings, Salon went in search of economic storm clouds on Aug. 12. It’s headline proclaimed, “…

Julia A. Seymour | August 6, 2018

Forget the good economy. That’s what one network did as ABC World News Tonight chose to ignore the news of 157,000 jobs added and 3.9 percent unemployment on Aug. 3. The broadcast networks took three very different approaches to covering…

Julia A. Seymour | August 2, 2018

HuffPost says baby boomers panicked by the popularity of socialism, just need to “relax.”

Senior political economy reporter Zach Carter declared “Socialism is Good Now,” on HuffPost July 29. At the same time,…

Julia A. Seymour | July 31, 2018

After ignoring all three estimates of first quarter GDP growth, ABC, CBS and NBC found the second quarter estimate too good to overlook.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced on July 27, that the economy grew by 4.1 percent in the…