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Jeff Poor | June 11, 2008

      If you’re an oil executive or just drive a car, you have to be especially concerned about Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-Calif.) feelings about oil companies.

     Although a global warming/cap-and-trade bill that she co-sponsored –…

Jeff Poor | June 11, 2008

     In a continued search for someone to blame for inflation – specifically higher commodity prices – the media have decided to go after speculators, who perform a vital and perfectly legal function in the free market.

Jeff Poor | June 10, 2008

     When a high-ranking U.S. senator sounds more like Karl Marx than Adam Smith over the issue of energy prices, it must be an election year.

     Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, appeared on…

Jeff Poor | June 10, 2008

     The June 9 NBC “Nightly News” broadcast continued an all-out media assault on home lenders, which are suffering in an industry ailing from subprime mortgages gone bad. Correspondent Lisa Myers criticized one lender,…

Jeff Poor | June 9, 2008

     It’s not exactly a longing for the days of disco and bell-bottoms, but the June 8 “NBC Nightly News” warned of scenario that was notorious during the late 1970s.

     CNBC senior economics reporter Steve Liesman warned viewers of…

Jeff Poor | June 9, 2008

     This time of year, global warming activists have another way to frighten the public – using steamy weather to suggest human greenhouse gas emissions are worsening a heat wave.

     Stanford University professor Dr. Stephen…