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Jeff Poor
Jeff Poor | November 19, 2007

     Just as the holiday season is cranking up, CBS is clamping down. Even strong numbers at Wal-Mart don’t satisfy the negative network.  The November 18 “CBS Evening News” kept up its predictable pessimism about the…

Jeff Poor | November 16, 2007

     So what’s another $1 trillion as long as it’s for a good cause?

 

     Apparently not much according to Woody Tasch, the chairman of Investors’ Circle, a company that describes itself…

Jeff Poor | November 15, 2007

     It has become routine. Once a month, California-based RealtyTrac releases national foreclosure statistics and once a month, all three networks include a foreclosures story in their November 14 newscast.

 

Jeff Poor | November 15, 2007

     The media are in love with billionaire Warren Buffett. But it’s not for his charitable donations, nor his wise investing sense – it’s because he’s been on a class warfare crusade calling for more taxes on wealthy Americans.

Jeff Poor | November 14, 2007

     Upon the news of Wal-Mart’s robust third-quarter earnings and predictions of a “strong” holiday shopping season, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) surged into positive territory, closing up 320 points after several…

Jeff Poor | November 13, 2007

     When was the last time you saw two-year-old meat in your grocer’s fridge?      

     CBS “Early Show” correspondent Chip Reid used hamburger meat dated Nov. 26, 2005, to suggest consumers could be hoodwinked by meat packagers that…