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The Media's Top 10 Worst Economic Myths of 2009 From jobs 'saved or created,' to stimulus saving the economy, to 'deficit neutral' health care reform; here are…

Each year the Business & Media Institute looks back on the year's news and selects the top 10 worst economic myths. Here is our 2009 list:

10. CBS, NY Times Support Ecuadorian Shakedown of U.S. oil company 

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A number of business owners have let me know of their new annoyance. They’re taking umbrage. The Great and Powerful Ozbama has chosen a new demon: the small business community. Not long ago, the rhetoric was about the need to assist small…

What’s that hissing sound? Al Gore’s fuse? Steam coming from Barbara Boxer’s ears?

Probably, but mostly, it’s the sound of gas escaping the climate change balloondoggle. Assuredly, there’s no shortage of UN envirocrats ready and willing…

The last time unemployment hit double digits, the Billy Joel song “Allentown” was a surprise early ’80s hit. As Joel later told the Allentown Morning Call, it was a “song about being out of work.”

The song’s message of lost jobs and lost…

A number of business owners have let me know of their new annoyance. They’re taking umbrage. The Great and Powerful Ozbama has chosen a new demon: the small business community. Not long ago, the rhetoric was about the need to assist small…

Here’s yet another excellent example of how, when the government gets too involved in the  private sector, things don’t turn out so well.

On CNBC’s Dec. 7 “Street Signs,” host Erin Burnett asked “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer what he…

For years the news media said that the scientific “consensus” was that global warming is man-made and harmful, and they have censored scientists with other viewpoints, after all the alarmist science was peer reviewed.

Skeptics were…

The seemingly creepy fixation some MSNBC on-air personalities have with Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann just continues to persist on the cable network.

The latest installment involves MSNBC’s “Ed Show” host Ed…

It’s been nearly two weeks since a scandal shook many people’s faith in the scientists behind global warming alarmism. The scandal forced the University of East Anglia (UK) to divulge that it threw away raw temperature data and prompted the…

12 Days, 3 Networks and No Mention of ClimateGate Scandal President Obama will be at the climate change summit in Copenhagen next week, but the network news media are…

The imminent end of the world. Aliens (the ones from space, not the illegal kind). Witches and warlocks. Those are some of things Americans believe in.

Unbiased journalism? Not so much.

That’s what the polling tells us. A 2008…

On Sunday’s “Face The Nation” on CBS, Howard Dean, doctor, former Vermont Governor, former head of the DNC, stated that the Veterans Administration’s health care system is, in fact, a socialist system. Yes, he said that. And he praised it as the…

According to Don Imus, it’s the late-1970s all over again, and not in a good way.

Imus appeared on the Fox News Channel’s Nov. 24 “Hannity” program and had some disparaging words for the current administration’s economic policy. He told…

What’s hidden in health care reform that you haven’t heard about? Plenty. Without a news media interested in questioning the contents of the legislation, how could you know about the punitive taxes and job-killing provisions lurking in it?…

Last week more 1,000 e-mails were leaked showing that climate change alarmists had colluded to exaggerate the threat of anthropogenic global warming. Media coverage has been scattershot, but Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., noticed.

Inhofe…

Now that former CNN host Lou Dobbs has been freed of his duties with his former network, he has been making the rounds on other networks – Fox News “The O’Reilly Factor,” Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” and now with his long-time rival’s show…

Here they go again. Oppose regulating carbon emissions and either the media or the Obama administration is going to come gunning at you. Sometimes both.

An article in the Nov. 19 New York Times by John M. Broder scrutinizes…

The $1,000 bill has President Grover Cleveland’s face on it. The $100,000 bill has the dour image of President Woodrow Wilson.

We’ve already seen President Barack Obama attach his name and face to the $787 billion stimulus bill. And if…

The new Obama administration Housing Justice Czar is describing the sweeping, new legislation proposed by the President. Let’s listen in …

“We obviously have great inequity in housing in America that requires comprehensive and…