Gary Wolfram
NYT CRIES ‘Stark Economic Damage’ If Biden Agrees to GOP Spending Cuts
Business
March 9th, 2023 11:33 AM
The New York Times tried turning the screws on Republican members of Congress who are adamant about President Joe Biden agreeing to spending cuts before the debt ceiling is raised...yet again.
Washington Post Uses CBO to Criticize Obama Tax Cuts, Rather than Spen
March 8th, 2010 8:35 PM
The Washington Post must dislike tax cuts even more than it likes President Barack Obama. On March 6, staff writer Lori Montgomery warned that the national debt would climb by $9.7 trillion under Obama’s budget.Relying on the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for data, Montgomery reported that the debt would be "higher than White House forecast" but not because of spending increases by Obama.…
Media Divide Wall Street and 'Main Street
April 3rd, 2008 4:22 PM
As economic issues move to the front of the on-going presidential campaign, the mainstream media have given an increased amount of coverage to what is happening on Wall Street. However, they have portrayed Wall Street as something completely alien to what happens on "Main Street." "Now to Wall Street, which, as you know, doesn't always like what Main Street likes, and by the end of the…
