Are You Afraid of the News?
Happy Halloween. News reports are a fright fest these days with Planet in Peril, a freefall in the stock market and the threat of superbugs. The media make it sound like the end of the world. Yes, you should be afraid of the news.
Journalists See 'Crisis' Where Even Economists Aren't Sure
Is the economy half-full, half-empty or even empty? The experts disagree, but reporters made up their minds a long time ago.
G: BusinessWeek: Spending on greenhouse gas cutting efforts dubious
B: CNN: Perception of recession trumps economic fundamentals
U: Rolling Stone article claims global warming will kill 6 billion
CNN Predicts Possible Century of Fires Due to Global Warming
Lovelock: Warming Will Kill 6 Billion
Moyers Gives Liberal Author 40 Minutes to Bash Blackwater in Interview
Select the Media Research Center this fall in the Combined Federal
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A Vital Engine of Economic Growth
The American magazine
Free Trade: Media Should Include Facts with Opinion Polls
The Heritage Foundation
Suffer the Little Children No More
TCSDaily.com
Hey Al Gore, We Want a Refund
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Should American Workers Fear or Embrace Globalization?
Oct. 25, 2007, Washington, D.C.
Cato Institute
The Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of
Life...
Oct. 30, 2007, Portland, Ore.
Cato Institute and Cascade Policy Institute
How Nations Prosper: Economic Freedom and Doing Business in 2008
Nov. 9, 2007, Washington, D.C.
Cato Institute
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