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Nathan Burchfiel
Nathan Burchfiel | July 29, 2008

     Nearly 20 million American households utilize payday lending services to make an emergency car repair, cover a variety of other costs or avoid bounced check fees. Leave it to CBS to attack the legitimate, legal, and useful service.

Nathan Burchfiel | July 28, 2008

     Leave it to the media over-dramatize an incident that was scary enough already.

 

     That’s just what ABC’s David Muir did in a July 25 “Good Morning America” report on the Qantas…

Nathan Burchfiel | July 23, 2008

     The failure and federal takeover of the California-based IndyMac Bank July 11 signaled a coming financial apocalypse, according to network news reports that predicted “hundreds if not thousands” more bank failures but…

Nathan Burchfiel | July 11, 2008

     Two network news reporters on July 11 acknowledged that controversial comments from a top economic advisor to Republican presidential candidate John McCain have been taken out of context. That didn’t stop them both from using the comments…

Nathan Burchfiel | July 3, 2008

     If the free market responds to an economic problem, and no one in the media reports it, does it still happen? When it comes to high gas prices, Americans won’t have to find out.

     The July 2 ABC “World News with Charles Gibson”…

Nathan Burchfiel | July 2, 2008

     As Democrats solidified their control of Congress in early 2007, the newly empowered leadership pledged to “truly declare our energy independence” by July 4, 2007.

 

     House…