Economy

As we’ve documented recently at NewsBusters, CBS’s flagship newscasts have shown little wholesale changes under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss that we both initially saw and as had been reported. Instead, it’s been more of the same liberal drivel. But ironically, there have been a few moments at NBC where it’s come across as this was the network she actually leads and such was the case on…

One of CNN’s most notorious TV egoists surprises viewers every once in awhile by displaying a modicum of common sense in the face of leftist politicians running economies into the mud. His recent repudiation of blue city spending is no exception.

Joe Scarborough has reacted to President Trump’s State of the Union with profanity — and by questioning his sanity. After a sweeping denunciation of Trump’s remarks on immigration, inflation, and elections, Joe Scarborough declared the speech “extraordinary… for many reasons,” adding: "He did sh-- that no sane president would ever do. It was really, really crazy to be watching that in a State…

In reacting Wednesday to President Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address, ABC’s Good Morning America followed its tiresome pattern of being all Trump hate, all the time by repeating an absurd 11 times the President’s grappling with negative polling and went out to deliver a speech that consisted of “brutally harsh” “partisan attacks” and irresponsibly “paint[ed] a rosy picture” of…

On Tuesday, ABC’s Good Morning America (GMA) and CBS Mornings combined to offer widely negative rhetoric in previewing President Trump’s State of the Union, painting it as an almost hapless endeavor amid “his lowest numbers yet” to change the minds of voters poised to trigger a blue tsuanmi in November. Unsurprisingly, GMA was the most negative. In short,…

The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index® increased by 2.2 points in February to 91.2 (1985=100), from an upwardly revised 89.0 in January, the think tank reported Tuesday.

For the second straight day, CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish served up carefully curated anecdotal voices to suggest economic discontent under President Trump. On Monday, we caught Cornish spotlighting one Republican voter — out of tens of millions nationwide — to imply GOP unease over the economy. On Tuesday, she swapped that single poll respondent for a montage of social media…

We are a little over 8 months away from the 2026 midterm elections, but 2018 positioning is already in the air. CNN made sure to get that ball rolling with an early potential candidate interview: California Governor Gavin Newsom. The interview, conducted by State of the Union co-host Dana Bash, centered around the release of Newsom's memoir “Young Man in a Hurry.” The interview was as…

Discussing the Supreme Court ruling striking down Trump’s tariffs on MS NOW’s The Weekend, Axios Senior Economics Reporter Courtenay Brown suggested it’s very unlikely Walmart would lower prices if it receives tariff refunds. In doing so, she disregards competitive pressures and Econ 101 principles of supply and demand.

One of California governor Gavin Newsom’s (D) most high-profile donors is getting the heck out of Dodge. Steven Spielberg, one of the most influential movie-makers in Hollywood history, is reportedly fleeing California for New York, according to the New York Post.

The Wall Street Journal has promoted itself as the "Daily Diary of the American Dream," as a promoter of national prosperity. But some columnists find the titans of capitalism too unseemly to support any more. 

All the major broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — broke in Friday morning with special reports on the Supreme Court’s 6-to-3 ruling declaring most of President Trump’s landmark tariffs unconstitutional. Unsurprisingly, ABC was almost ebullient in touting the ruling as “devastating,” “huge,” and “monumental” in hampering Trump’s presidency.

Last Friday on CNBC’s Squawk Box, the CEO of Goldman Sachs blew a gaping hole in the never-ending media outrage bait about the Trump economy. Asked by co-host Joe Kernen for his 2026 economic forecast, David Solomon emphatically replied that “the macro setup is quite good,” which shatters doom narratives being promulgated by CNN, The New York Times, and others desperate to…

The New York Times spewed outrage when President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency eliminated the dubious Obama-era Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, which “served as a prerequisite for regulating emissions from new motor vehicles and new motor vehicle engines.”