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Jeff Poor | March 18, 2008

     Want to get on a national TV newscast? Your best bet is to strike while the iron is hot – that is while the economy is the issue of the day.

     The March 17 “NBC Nightly News” dedicated an entire segment to U.S. News…

Jeff Poor | March 18, 2008

     The “Wall Street versus Main Street” cliché has infiltrated the mindset of reporters covering the economy. And government action has become the standard push for economic sectors in trouble.

 

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Jeff Poor | March 18, 2008

     In free market capitalism, especially in an event with the magnitude of Bear Stearns’s collapse, there are losers and believe it or not, there are even some winners.

 

     “[S]o,…

Jeff Poor | March 17, 2008

     Chicken Little is loose again, this time on CBS’s “Early Show.”

 

     The March 17 “Early Show” reported the news of J.P. Morgan’s bailout of the troubled investment bank Bear…

Jeff Poor | March 17, 2008

     Hopefully your financial portfolio didn’t include stock in Bear Stearns, but it might have if you had listened to CNBC’s Jim Cramer.

 

     After it was announced March 16 that J.P.…

Jeff Poor | March 17, 2008

     High gas prices are hurting a lot of people, but the impact is most painful for Californians.

     ABC’s March 16 “World News” featured a segment about the California economy and pointed out that California is experiencing the…