Economy

For some reason, Wednesday’s CBS Mornings was live for an intolerable five hours to celebrate their party’s sweep in the midterm elections, airing from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Eastern, with plenty of interviews drooling over their new friends, celebrating other victories, and showing us they’re unconcerned about appearing any different than the show has for years.

As it were a four-year-old at Disneyland or Disney World, ABC’s Good Morning America saw its dreams come true by Wednesday, with Democrats romping to gigantic majorities in Congress and across the country. They were so excited that they could barely hide it in cheering the “blue tsunami” “crash[ing] overnight” to hand down “a decisive message” of “a resounding rebuke” of Trump’s policies and…

Economic activity in the nation’s supply chain enjoyed broad-based improvement in October, a new Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI®) Report reveals.

Illinois’ Democrat Governor, JB Pritzker, spoke out Thursday against a fellow Democrat’s proposal to inflict a so-called “head tax” on employers in Chicago.

The nation’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) continued to outperform economists’ predictions in the third quarter, a report released Thursday by the U.S. Commerce Department reveals.

The “Big Three” broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC offered an entire plate of bias Wednesday on their lead morning newscasts, with each of them pulling hard for Texas to go blue with James Talarico, CBS Mornings misleading viewers about Kansas and Nebraska Senate seats, and both ABC and NBC ignoring an anti-Semitic ad in Michigan blaming Jews for an increase in grocery bills.

In a case of bizarre story placement during the second hour (and in a newscast seemingly barren of staff and two extra rounds of news briefs), ABC’s Good Morning America diverged from its usual behavior of playing corporate whore for Disney overlords to add a fourth midterms segment that strongly implied Georgia election workers and elsewhere could face threats to their lives on Tuesday from…

Across the broadcast networks on Tuesday morning, all three chose to apply their anti-Trump drivel and Republican voter suppression efforts through all-too-convenient anecdotes. NBC’s Today did so by blaming Trump’s Iran war for a Yakima, Washington-area school district having to cut bus routes (even though the school year didn’t start all that long ago), strategizing for Texas Democrat James…

October’s jump in the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index defied economists’ dour forecasts by rising 8.9%, the nonprofit think tank’s latest monthly report released Tuesday shows.

Weekly U.S. jobless claims fell to the verge of a 57-year low last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday – and economists are crediting the Trump Administration’s enforcement of federal immigration laws.

ABC, CBS, and NBC were ebullient on their lead Tuesday morning newscasts, marking two weeks from Election Day by telling viewers there are “struggling Republicans” nationwide beset by a “combative” President Trump, and that Democrats are “riding a wave of concern over the economy,” and marveling at a Kansas Democrat’s new ad asking for support from Trump voters.

On Monday’s lead broadcast network morning shows, ABC, CBS, and NBC trumpeted new polls showing doom for the GOP, denounced any suggestion America’s in “a golden age,” and held up a Kansas Democrat running for Senate as a moderate.

A favorite Joe Scarborough parlor game is to exult in problematic poll numbers for Republicans. He’s been at it for years. The Morning Joe host was back at it on Monday’s show, devoting a big chunk of the first half-hour to reveling in the latest polls.

PBS joined the other networks in negatively spinning the official inflation numbers, which were comparatively tame compared to inflation during the Biden years. Former Washington Post columnist turned Navy Federal Credit Union economist Heather Long popped up again on Wednesday’s PBS News Hour to discuss the latest inflation report. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett led the show by filtering the figures…