Recession

MSNBC’s Hayes Urges Congress to Pass $1 TRILLION Stimulus in ‘Cash’
Business
March 13th, 2020 3:42 PM
When the economy gets you down, just throw truckloads of taxpayer cash at it. At least, that’s what MSNBC Anchor Chris Hayes says Congress should do. Hayes sent out his policy prescription on Twitter in the early morning of March 13: “I increasingly convinced we need Congress to pass a trillion dollar stimulus in the next week, focused on people not industry bailouts. Probably best just direct…

Fox Business’s Francis Wrecks MSNBC’s Joy Reid for Ignorant Econ Tweet
Business
March 12th, 2020 10:26 AM
MSNBC’s Joy Reid sent out a flippant tweet in an attempt to denigrate the Trump administration’s plan to direct the Small Business Administration to provide liquidity to states and small business owners through low-interest loans to provide economic relief from the coronavirus impact. Reid stated, “Who knew low-interest business loans were the key to stopping the coronavirus spread?” Fox Business…

GAFFE: NeverTrumper Rick Wilson Shares ‘Fake’ Trump ‘Dow Joans’ Tweet
Business
March 10th, 2020 10:36 AM
Well, that certainly did not go as planned.NeverTrumper and “Republican political strategist” Rick Wilson made a sorry attempt to play gotcha over the coronavirus-induced market dip March 9, by sharing a tweet the same day that appeared to be from President Donald Trump in 2015. The tweet he shared called for the punishment of a sitting president if the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell “more…

FLASHBACK: Maher & Wilson Called for Recession, Hope to Oust Trump
Business
March 9th, 2020 11:01 AM
Looks like the liberal blowhard HBO comedian Bill Maher may be getting his wish. Maher had been begging for a market crash and recession to occur in hopes it would oust President Donald Trump from the White House. In 2018, he sniped, “I feel like the bottom has to fall out at some point, and by the way, I’m hoping for it because I think one way you get rid of Trump is to crash the economy.”

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CNN Gives Krugman Free Time to Bash GOP on Coronavirus, Tax Cuts
March 3rd, 2020 3:27 PM
On Monday's New Day show, CNN gave an unchallenged forum to liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman to trash the Trump administration and other Republicans over issues like tax cuts and the Coronavirus issue, the latter of which he likened to President George W. Bush's handling of the WMD issue before the Iraq War. He also asserted that climate change skeptics and supporters…

Warren Buffett in ‘Sympathy’ with Sanders, Would ‘Vote’ for Bloomberg
Business
February 24th, 2020 3:36 PM
Liberal billionaire Warren Buffett, who’s been fairly quiet this election cycle, took to CNBC to weigh in on the Democratic primary races. As it turns out, even The Billion-Dollar King of Abortion found self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) too left-wing.

MSNBC’s Scarborough Distorts Axios Report on Trump Economy
Business
February 20th, 2020 12:43 PM
Joe Scarborough of MSNBC’s Morning Joe distorted an Axios report on President Donald Trump’s economy to credit former president Barack Obama. The show ran a segment defending Obama’s tweet congratulating himself for today’s booming economy.

Obama Touts His Economy, Axios Says Trump Avg. GDP Growth Outpaced His
Business
February 17th, 2020 5:30 PM
Former President Barack Obama, touting his own economic magic wand, tried to take credit for the Trump economy. Obama sent out the self-congratulatory tweet February 17. He said that, “Eleven years ago today, near the bottom of the worst recession in generations, I signed the Recovery Act, paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest streak of job creation in American…

225,000 Jobs Added in January, and Still No Media-Predicted Recession
Business
February 7th, 2020 12:17 PM
The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report found that the Trump economy is continuing to pump jobs into the market. And yet, still no evidence of the recession the liberal media have been howling about. The most recent jobs report found that the U.S. economy added 225,000 nonfarm payroll jobs for the month of January, destroying economists’ expectations of 158,000 jobs

CNBC’s Jim Cramer: President Trump Is ‘Great for the Stock Market’
Business
February 6th, 2020 10:09 AM
Forget the liberal media’s scrambling to throw cold water on President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address. CNBC host of Mad Money Jim Cramer gave high praise for Trump’s economy, a major focus of the president’s speech Tuesday.

Trump Economy: US Housing Starts Skyrocket to 13-Year High
Business
January 17th, 2020 6:31 PM
President Donald Trump’s economy continues to fly in the face of the liberal media and their recession hype. A new Jan. 17 report by CNBC showed that “U.S. homebuilding surged to a 13-year high [16.9%] in December as activity increased across the board” [emphasis added]. Housing starts spiked 16.9 percent to a “seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.608 million units last month, the highest level…

Consumer Confidence Highest in Nearly 20 Years -- Where’s the Media?
Business
January 17th, 2020 10:58 AM
Consumer confidence is the highest its been in nearly 20 years. And yet, a recent MRC analysis showed that liberal media networks only gave President Donald Trump’s economy less than one percent coverage on their evening newscasts over a period of 100 days.

Trump Economy Gets Less Than 1% of Network Evening News Coverage
Business
January 13th, 2020 4:40 PM
A new Media Research Center analysis found that the three major network evening newscasts only gave President Donald Trump’s booming economy and U.S. trade nine minutes of coverage since the House Democrats’ impeachment push began on September 24, 2019.

Yahoo! Pulls Punches in Report on Bloomberg’s Big Government Econ Plan
Business
January 10th, 2020 11:04 AM
Liberal billionaire and 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg has no problem imposing big-government policies on the economy. Yet Yahoo! Finance decided to pull its punches in its reporting by barely critiquing Bloomberg’s left-wing plan.