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Ruhle Claims Worse Than Expected Inflation Report Was 'Good-ish'
January 13th, 2024 10:38 AM
MSNBC’s host of The 11th Hour, Stephanie Ruhle, knows that the economy is the thing most likely to doom President Joe Biden’s re-election efforts so she spent Friday’s show spinning that the worse than expected inflation report was actually “good-ish.”
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MSNBC Previews DeSantis 2024 By Labeling Him 'Pro-White Supremacy'
May 20th, 2023 10:11 AM
MSNBC’s The 11th Hour Friday panel previewed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis impending presidential campaign announcement declaring him to be “pro-racial hierarchy” and “pro-white supremacy.”
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MSNBC Declares Republicans Are Helping Increase Teen LGBT Suicides
March 4th, 2023 10:20 AM
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle’s weekly panel discussions on The 11th Hour always produce some absurd content, but Friday’s panel took the absurdity to a whole new level as it was alleged that Republicans seeking to ban gender transitions for minors are taking the country back to 1954 while making it more likely young people will commit suicide.
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WH Avoids Talking Unemployment & Struggling Businesses, Blames Omicron
February 3rd, 2022 4:46 PM
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki blamed the COVID-19 omicron variant for job losses in advance of a potentially terrible jobs report scheduled to be released on Feb. 4 by the Department of Labor.
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Friday Morning Fight: CNBC Panel Explodes Over COVID Restrictions
December 4th, 2020 4:00 PM
On Friday’s Squawk Box, the CNBC panel devolved into chaos with corporate liberals defending “big box retailer[s]” as necessary and worthy of staying open during the worst throws of the coronavirus pandemic whereas other public places must and should remain closed in the name of public safety. While the sentiment on Twitter sided with this blatant discrimination, panelist Rick…
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Obama-Era Cheerleader Liesman Downplays Economy's Third-Quarter Growth
December 2nd, 2017 9:41 AM
At CNBC Wednesday morning, just after the release of the government's GDP report, Squawk Box panelist Steve Liesman appeared to do everything he could to downplay the significance, and even the relevance, of the 3.3 percent annualized growth estimate. At the end of the segment, he gave away his ignorance when he expressed outrage that the tax bill currently under consideration in Congress, while…
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Horrible Jobs Reports Leaves CNBC’s Santelli Worried About Economy
October 2nd, 2015 1:52 PM
The September jobs report turned out to be a disappointment with fewer than anticipated jobs gains and labor force participation at its lowest rate since October of 1977.
CNBC’s Squawk Box discussion of the disappointing report quickly turned to Federal Reserve policy and whether it vindicated the Fed’s decision not to raise rates, or just proved they missed their chance to do so.
Media Fail: Weak First Qtr. Economies Have Been a Democrat Phenomenon
June 8th, 2015 11:13 AM
The business press has gotten really excited about the possibility — some of them are even treating it as a probability — that the first-quarter's recently reported annualized economic contraction of 0.7 percent will go positive if it gets revised for so-called "residual seasonality."
"Residual seasonality" is "the manifestation of seasonal patterns in data that have already been seasonally…
'Fast Money' Panel Blasts President Obama's 'Duplicitous' Rhetoric in
July 24th, 2014 6:36 PM
At the beginning of the July 24 edition of Fast Money, CNBC aired an exclusive interview of President Obama by the network's Steve Liesman focused primarily on taxes and tax reform, particularly the president's call to prevent large corporations from capitalizing on an "inversion" to lessen their federal tax bite.
But after the interview was aired, CNBC panelists excoriated the president as "…
Fever-Swamp Left Celebrates How CNBC's Steve Liesman 'Embarrassed' Ric
July 16th, 2014 1:39 AM
Paul Krugman at the New York Times and other fever-swamp leftists who, incredibly, are operating under the assumption that the economy has experienced an acceptable if uneven "recovery" during the five years since the recession ended are celebrating what they believe was an epic live "embarrassment" of Rick Santelli at the hands of Steve Liesman at CNBC on Monday.
A Google search shows that…
Former Obama Official: Jobs Revisions 'Elaborate Left-wing Plot to Mak
February 1st, 2013 9:28 AM
The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday reported upside revisions to the number of jobs that were created in last year's fourth quarter.
Appearing on CNBC's Squawk Box, Austan Goolsbee, the former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Barack Obama, joked, "It’s an elaborate left-wing plot to make the numbers much better several months after the election so that nobody thinks…
Rick Santelli Responds to Negative GDP Report: 'We Are Now Europe
January 30th, 2013 9:59 AM
Rick Santelli made a stunning observation Wednesday about the shocking report that the economy actually shrunk in the fourth quarter last year.
"We are now Europe," he declared on CNBC's Squawk Box.
CBS: 'Self-Evident' Middle Class Will Spend More If Taxes Stay Same; P
December 6th, 2012 3:20 PM
"Militantly non-partisan" Major Garrett sounded more like an Obama administration flack on Thursday's CBS This Morning as he spotlighted the President's latest P.R. stunt. Garrett noted Obama's plan to visit a northern Virginia middle-class family and claimed that the Democrat was underlining the "self-evident point that if the there is a deal and their taxes aren't raised by about $2,000, they…
March Hiring Far Below Expectations, CNBC Guest Still Seeks 'Silver Li
April 6th, 2012 11:55 AM
Each month before the jobs report is released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the hosts and guests of CNBC make predictions about the payroll employment number and unemployment rate.
On April 6, when the March data was released Steve Liesman was the high end predictor, with 290,000, and former Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee was low, with 180,000. But everyone turned out to be…
