New from the Business & Media Institute
Special Report: Trade Secrets [1]
Lou Dobbs Tonight Hides Good News Behind
Negative View of Free Market
Lou Dobbs is a CNN institution. But just what is this longtime business
journalist telling his viewers about trade? The Business & Media Institute looked
at four months of Lou Dobbs Tonight and found that Dobbs is
overwhelmingly biased against the free market.
Networks Send Plaintiffs Message to Drugmakers [2]
Was the Vioxx verdict about a scientific link between a drug and a death,
or about a warning to drug companies? Broadcasters gave ample time to the
plaintiffs attacks on Merck & Co. but werent anywhere near as fair to
the defendant, in keeping with media trends in litigation coverage.
Econ 101: Are Housing Prices Too High? [3]
Dr. Gary Wolfram is a Business & Media Institute adviser and a professor of
economics at Hillsdale College. His column this month explains why media
fears of a housing bubble are often based on faulty economics.
Ask the professor [4]: Do you have a question about an economic issue
covered in the news?
The Good,
the Bad & the Ugly [5]
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly tracks the best and worst media coverage of
business and economics. Readers are invited to submit suggestions or news
tips to Director
Dan Gainor [6].
This week: Its not oil, its refining capacity; the suns
addictive rays; oils breaking point.
Follow the medias ongoing Gas Hysteria daily with the Business & Media Institute:
More Media Go Drilling for Viewers [7]
Times Scares Readers with the Crisis Ahead [8]
Missing the Point on Prices [9]
Research, News & Commentary
Energy
Commentary [10]: Columnist Thomas Sowell calms fears with facts on the
subject of an oil crisis.
News [11]:
The Competitive Enterprise Institute says new mileage guidelines for light
trucks could be the death of drivers.
Commentary [12]: Heritages Ariel Cohen and William Schirano take a
look at the history of OPEC and its harmful supply-fixing,
market-controlling ways.
Research [13]: Kevin Bonsor and Ed Grabianowski take an informative
journey through How Gas Prices Work on Howstuffworks.com.
Wal-Mart
Commentary [14]: Harvard business Professsor Pankaj Ghemawat and
business consultant Ken A. Mark tackle popular claims against Wal-Mart,
showing how lower-income shoppers benefit from the stores low prices.
Education
Commentary [15]: Prices are rising at colleges and universities, and
AEIs Richard Vedder explains that the lack of a true free market is one
of six major causes.