CNBC’s Faber Assumes Recession Inevitable

Jeff Poor
January 7th, 2008 4:25 PM
Got some hot stock plays for 2008? CNBC's David Faber thinks you should factor in the recession that hasn't yet happened when you adjust your portfolio for this New Year. CNBC "Squawk Box" contributor Faber warned investors on the January 7 "Squawk on the Street" that stocks reliant on business spending could hurt since a recession, he said, is imminent. "Business spending, concerns about…
 

Weak Job Data Cause Media to Forget the Definition of a Recession

Jeff Poor
January 4th, 2008 4:49 PM
 

Harwood: Huck's Economic-Conservative Opponents Churchless Tax-Cut Wor

Mark Finkelstein
December 18th, 2007 8:50 AM
You'd hardly expect the chief Washington correspondent of business channel CNBC to negatively stereotype economic conservatives. But appearing on today's Morning Joe, the urbane John Harwood did just that.View video here.JOE SCARBOROUGH: [Huckabee is] a different type of evangelical. It's not the evangelical in American politics that's traditionally been very conservative economically. Obviously…
 

Devoutly Desiring Depression

Mark Finkelstein
December 9th, 2007 7:28 AM
Steve Fraser might look mild-mannered, but when it comes to economic doomsaying, he is the Rocky Marciano of recession, the Tiger Woods of turndown, the David Beckham of depression.Speaking of bending one, Fraser's LA Times column of today, "Symptoms of an Economic Depression," twists U.S. economic data into a harbinger of impending doom. Fraser begins by falsely claiming that "no one wants to…
 

'The Early Show' Gives about 50 Cents' Worth of Weak Dollar Story

Jeff Poor
November 12th, 2007 6:08 PM
 

Media Scaring Countrywide Customers Although Signals Point to its Surv

Jeff Poor
August 17th, 2007 4:01 PM
 

The Stock Market Corrects, Why Not the Media

Dan Gainor
July 27th, 2007 5:27 PM