Gas Hysteria: Prices are Falling, 'But ...'

September 27th, 2006 2:00 PM
Gas Hysteria:
Prices are Falling, But

While gas prices have been falling, the nightly newscasts have still referred to high or rising prices more often than falling. Even when journalists admitted the decline now at 68 cents since August 11 they undermined it half the time.

I Recycle!
BMI Adviser Dr. Donald Boudreaux explains that many environmentalist pursuits lack simple cost-benefit analysis.

G: CNNs Serwer pooh-poohs conspiracy theories on markets performance
B: NY Times takes a Debbie Downer approach to $4 prescriptions
U: Wash. Post pushes liberal critics of Forbes 400 billionaires, raising calls for higher taxes

CNNs Serwer Dismisses Market Conspiracies

NBC, CBS Downplay Good News about Economy

ABC Reheats Leftover Bias on Global Warming, Showcases Hansen

CBS Greets Housing Value News with Slanted Housing Bubble Story



 

Hugo Chavez's impending oil war (Human Events)

Conspicuous Consumption: How to measure economic well-being (AEI)

Gabriel Roth: Roads are too important to be left to governments (Independent Institute)

W. James Antle III: What is the cost of compassion? (TCSDaily)

Improving health savings accounts (Heritage)

Phil Kerpen: Repeal the 'inflation tax' (NRO)

High-Priced Pain: What to expect from a single-payer health care system (Heritage)

Private Solutions for Reducing Road Congestion, Fuel Costs
The Independent Institute
Washington, D.C., September 28

The World Trading System after the Collapse of Doha
American Enterprise Institute
Washington, D.C., October 3

The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform
Cato Institute
Washington, D.C., October 4

Is Nuclear Power a Solution to Global Warming and Rising Energy Prices?
American Enterprise Institute
Washington, D.C., October 6

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