Business

Jeff Poor | January 26, 2010

It was initially thought the election of President Barack Obama was just going to hit your pocketbook in the form of higher taxes. But if the past several days are any indication, the president has found another way to hit it – by attacking your…

Jeff Poor | January 25, 2010

It’s curious to see people in the mainstream media try to make sense of the Tea Party movement. The New York Times, which once called the Tea Parties a psychological phenomenon rather than a political movement, has now changed its tune.

In…

Jeff Poor | January 25, 2010

Is the luster finally wearing off the love affair between the White House press corps and President Barack Obama? It is, if CBS White House correspondent Chip Reid’s analysis of President Barack Obama’s latest Wall Street proposals is anything to…

Jeff Poor | January 22, 2010

CNBC “Squawk Box” co-hosts Joe Kernen and Becky Quick understand public opposition to Obamacare. Unfortunately, their colleague John Harwood, who covers Washington, D.C. for the network, doesn’t.

 

On Jan. 22, Harwood appeared…

Julia A. Seymour | January 22, 2010

The news media have often taken President Barack Obama’s side against banks, portraying bankers as the villains. But that was not the case on “American Morning” Jan. 22.

Business correspondent Christine Romans surprisingly blamed the…

Jeff Poor | January 21, 2010

Since Republican Scott Brown won the special election Jan 19 to fill Massachusetts’ U.S. Senate seat vacated after the death of Ted Kennedy, President Barack Obama and high-level White House staffers David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs have been on…

Julia A. Seymour | January 21, 2010

Liberal billionaire investor Warren Buffett has been very popular among the news media, but that might not hold if Buffett continues to dissent from President Barack Obama.

On Jan. 20, Bloomberg reported that Buffett opposed Obama’s…

Jeff Poor | January 21, 2010

When you breach the sacrosanct wall between church and state, and use religion to promote policy, bad things happen. At least, that’s what the left has been telling us for years.

But Rev. Jim Wallis, editor-in-chief of Sojourners…

Julia A. Seymour | January 21, 2010

Americans are generous people, and they prove it every time a disaster strikes like last week’s earthquake in Haiti. They have donated more than $275 million to relief efforts in the Caribbean nation in the week since the quake.

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BMI Staff | January 20, 2010

Companies Donate $83 Million to Haiti, Get Less Than Three Minutes of Coverage When tragedy strikes as it did in Haiti last week, American individuals and…

Matt Philbin | January 19, 2010

We don’t yet know the outcome of the Jan. 19 Massachusetts Senate special election. But the very fact that the Democrats could lose the seat formerly held by Sen. Ted Kennedy to a conservative who’s made blocking healthcare reform a centerpiece…

Julia A. Seymour | January 15, 2010

Crony capitalism is often a charge liberals make against conservative politicians, but Fox Business Network found an example of such cronyism connected to the Obama White House that included tax breaks and direct endorsements by both the…

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. | January 14, 2010

Editor, Washington Post

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Dear Editor:

Regarding "Tens of thousands feared dead" (Jan. 14): The ultimate tragedy in Haiti isn't the earthquake; it's that country's lack of…

Julia A. Seymour | January 14, 2010

Corporations often take a beating from the news media, but on Jan. 14 CNN found a reason to praise the actions of several U.S. companies.

“Corporate America contributing millions of dollars to the relief effort in Haiti as well as providing…

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. | January 14, 2010

13 January 2010

Editor, USA Today

Dear Editor:

Helen Ashworth writes that "Our current economic crisis is worse than the Great Depression" (Letters, Jan. 13). She's wrong. By no measure - rate of unemployment; decline…

Julia A. Seymour | January 13, 2010

The national unemployment rate rests at 10 percent after 85,000 more jobs were lost in December, while the number of people too discouraged to look for work increased by 642,000. CNBC’s Steve Liesman called those figures “absolutely devastating…

BMI Staff | January 13, 2010

Networks Fail to Criticize Obama Despite Most Jobs Lost in a Year Since 1940 More than 4.1 millions jobs disappeared in 2009, but the network media are not…

Jeff Poor | January 12, 2010

It hasn’t been in the limelight recently, but it is coming. According to CNBC contributor John Kilduff of Round Earth Capital, we will soon see the price of reach $100 per barrel.

On CNBC’s Jan. 11 “The Kudlow Report,” host Larry Kudlow…

Jeff Poor | January 11, 2010

Throughout former President George W. Bush’s two terms, left-wingers often accused him of being too tied into big business, which they claimed had influenced policy.  Remember the outrage over Blackwater ties to the Bush administration?…

Matt Philbin | January 8, 2010

As global warming alarmists get more desperate, they’re turning to allies in the mainstream media to help promote increasingly strident protests that the world really is warming.

Nobody is happier to oblige than ABC News. On Jan. 8, “…