ABC's Pictorial Smear of Great Jobs and Unemployment Report

November 5th, 2006 4:14 PM

Unemployment Falls & Wages Rise; Couric: 'But Do the Jobs Out There Pa

November 4th, 2006 1:01 AM

How PBS Picks Your Pocket to Push for Minimum Wage Hikes

November 3rd, 2006 10:54 AM

CNN Reporter: Corporations, GOP Conspire to Keep Wages Low

October 31st, 2006 2:51 PM

Krugman-Herbert: Double Dose of Doom-'n-Gloom

October 30th, 2006 5:51 AM
I looked around when I heard someone crying, and there was Pollyanna bawling her eyes out. That's how depressing was the one-two punch of pessimism in Paul Krugman's and Bob Herbert's New York Times pay-to-peruse columns of today.Just in time for the elections, the pair paint a picture of America so dreary you half-expected the Google logarithm to place Prozac ads on the page. Krugman tries to…

CNN Declares War on Strong Economy

October 26th, 2006 3:38 PM

CNN's 'In the Money' Beats Dobbs's 'War' Drums Over Weekend

October 23rd, 2006 2:06 PM

Chris Matthews Stoops to New Low as Dow Makes an All-Time High

October 22nd, 2006 2:05 PM
Those of us that study the economy and how it is reported by the drive-by media are constantly amazed by how those covering financial issues continually misrepresent statistics to advance their agenda. No finer recent example has occurred than on “The Chris Matthews Show” Sunday when the host bemoaned new highs set by the Dow Jones Industrial Average last week as not accurately reflecting what is…

Real Wages Up 2.2 Percent Since September ’05, Will Media Notice

October 18th, 2006 1:17 PM
One of the continual carps of the media concerning the current economic expansion has been that only low-paying jobs are being created that aren’t keeping up with inflation. Well, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday:Average weekly earnings rose by 4.0 percent, seasonally adjusted, from September 2005 to September 2006.  After deflation by the CPI-W, average weekly earnings increased…

Wal-Mart Critic Krugman Confounded By Capitalism

October 6th, 2006 7:51 AM