Business

Jeff Poor | November 17, 2008

      Victoria’s Secret, the well-known lingerie retailer, is being sued by a woman who claims the company’s bra had formaldehyde in it and made her “utterly sick.”

 

     ABC’s “Good…

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. | November 14, 2008

Editor, The Wall Street Journal

200 Liberty Street

New York, NY 10281

To the Editor:

Brian Riedl is correct: economic-stimulus packages are economic snake oil ("Why Spending Stimulus Plans Fail," Nov. 14). Because…

Jeff Poor | November 14, 2008

     Gas prices are up: that’s bad. Gas prices are down: that’s even worse. You can’t win either way.

 

     After a series of gas price hardship segments over the…

Erin Brown | November 14, 2008

The big television networks and national newspapers failed to cover an outrageous assault on a Michigan church, during which homosexuals, enraged about the voter rejection of same-sex marriage in three states, shouted obscenities and necked with…

Jeff Poor | November 13, 2008

     Who wants higher taxes? Vice president-elect Joe Biden calls paying tax “patriotic.” Add New York Times resident wizard-of-smart and columnist Thomas Friedman to that list.

     Friedman appeared on CNBC’s Nov. 13 “Squawk on the…

Paul Detrick | November 13, 2008

     Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced Nov. 12 that he would be redirecting the $700 billion bailout to focus on propping up financial institutions instead of buying troubled mortgage assets, which was the original…

Jeff Poor | November 13, 2008

     Call it a case of bad timing. With oil prices down significantly in recent months, the NBC “Nightly News” on Nov. 12 called for the federal government to address high heating oil prices facing the poor this winter.

     “If you’ve…

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. | November 13, 2008

Editor, The Baltimore Sun

Dear Editor:

Peter Morici alleges that Americans have engaged in "excessive borrowing to finance a huge trade deficit" ("First order of business," Nov. 12). This allegation reflects misunderstanding. First…

Brian Fitzpatrick | November 13, 2008

The liberal media worked overtime against California's marriage amendment, Proposition 8, which the voters passed 52 to 48 percent.   Now they are working to elevate angry gay protesters who are vilifying opponents and targeting churches.…

Matt Philbin | November 12, 2008

     It was a perfect triple-play of anti-free market, pro-regulation and pro-Democrat bias – with some old fashioned class warfare thrown in for good measure.

 

     In a segment of CBS’…

Dan Kennedy | November 12, 2008

     If there is a silver lining in every cloud, then the silver lining in the current economic crises (plural!) and the fast heating up international challenges may be a dampening of the new president’s grand ambitions for wealth confiscation.…

Jeff Poor | November 12, 2008

     Still more than two months from his inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama has started promoting his policies and naming some of his advisers. And according to one historian, he could be developing a plan to permanently block drilling…

BMI Staff | November 12, 2008
Journalists Credit Obama for Stock Gains, Ignore Losses The media rushed to laud President-elect Obama after an Election Day stock…
Jeff Poor | November 12, 2008

     It seems General Electric, the parent company of NBC Universal, has decided to make its “Green Week” a pre-holiday tradition. Another installment of the environmentally-conscious week of programming has been set for Nov.…

Julia A. Seymour | November 12, 2008

     As stocks rose on Election Day 2008, the media were more than happy to credit investors’ excitement over Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama’s chance of winning. But when stocks tanked in the days following Obama’s…

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. | November 12, 2008

Editor, The New York Times

229 West 43rd St.

New York, NY 10036

To the Editor:

One of your front-page headlines today reads "Lobbyists Swarm the Treasury for a Helping of the Bailout Pie" (Nov. 12).

This fact…

Jeff Poor | November 12, 2008

     In many cases, a woman’s individual health insurance policy costs more than a man’s – and that’s just not fair, according to the NBC “Nightly News.”

 

     A Nov. 11 report showed…

Dan Gainor | November 12, 2008

     Fair’s fair, right? Not always – especially in the new America that dawns January 20. That’s when the Obama administration takes over and they have bold plans for making America a fairer place to be.

     The Democratic platform…

Jeff Poor | November 12, 2008

     The taxpayers have already bailed out lenders and insurers, and they’re about to rescue automakers, so why not try to save other industries that have been run into the ground? That was the attitude of ABC’s “…

Jeff Poor | November 12, 2008

     Call it a textbook example of liberal policies pushing toward a socially engineered society.

     The Nov. 11 “CBS Evening News” featured California schools that were forced to ban old-fashioned fundraising bake sales thanks to…