Economy

Here We Go Again: Networks Back Obama 'Replay' on Infrastructure Spending, Stimulus

President and media stuck on repeat, but ABC, CBS, NBC won't admit it; argue for more money to fix roads, bridges.

Calmes Ignores Hoffa's'Take These Son of a Bitches Out' Tea Party Attack at Obama Rally

Obama, still not to blame: "The president's Labor Day addresses trace the stubbornness of the crisis he inherited....a Democratic-controlled Congress had passed his two-year, $800 billion stimulus ...

With Job Growth at Zero, Calmes Still Insists Obama's 'Stimulus' Worked

Reporter Jackie Calmes, still cheerleading for Obama's "economic stimulus" plan: "Nonpartisan analysts and the Congressional Budget Office have credited the first stimulus package with helping to ...

Krugman Gets Angry Over Fake Quote, But His Real Ones Are Just As Bad

Paul Krugman gets angry over a fake quote, but some of the things he has actually said about economic growth are just as bad. Three days after 9-11 he wrote that one of the possible "favorable ...

Networks Barely Criticize Obama's Disastrous 'Green Jobs' Policies

Criticism excluded from 92 percent of network news reports, despite bankruptcies of federally subsidized companies.

Calmes Again Insists on Success of Obama's 'Stimulus'

Jackie Calmes insists on the success of Obama's "stimulus" package: "...contrary to Republicans' claims, economists generally judged his 2009-10 stimulus program to have helped, but to have been ...

Welcome to the Race: Gov. Rick Perry 'Stumbled Into the Texas Miracle'

Reporter Clifford Krauss also pondered that if "Perry were to win the Republican nomination, he would face critics, among them Democrats, who have long complained that the state's economic health ...

Calmes Weaves Pro-Dem Cocoon in Story on G.O.P. 'Defensive' Over 'Austerity and Antitax Orthodoxy'

White House reporter Jackie Calmes: "The boasts of Congressional Republicans about their cost-cutting victories are ringing hollow to some well-known economists, financial analysts and corporate ...

NYT's Appelbaum: 'Everything We Know About Economics' Says Govt. 'Should Be Getting Bigger Right Now'

Binyamin Appelbaum has the solution to economic malaise - even more federal spending: "And for governments, the real problem is that there's this tremendous political pressure to get smaller, and ...

Networks Take Cue from Obama, Wait Nearly 6 Years to Attack S&P

Most ABC, CBS and NBC criticism comes after White House fears 2011 default, despite S&P failure during 2005 housing crisis.
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