Oil & Gas Prices

Why are gas prices so high? Of all the people Thursday’s CNN Newsroom host Poppy Harlow could have invited to give an answer to that question, she decided on former Obama Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Jason Furman. Furman was there to inform viewers that White House talking points about Vladimir Putin being to blame are actually correct.

On Wednesday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC chose to do something it’s only occasionally done in mentioning President Biden during their coverage of the porous economy. But, as one would expect, they absolved him of blame and instead commiserated with the “frustrated” President as he’s “[felt] the heat” from voters while “pointing fingers at” Republicans and “tout[ing] his economic agenda.”

“[We’re] in a place where we can actually put us in a place where the American people feel -- can actually -- we can take on inflation,” stated White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in a train wreck interview on Monday’s CNN Don Lemon Tonight. Welcomed by Lemon Jean-Pierre struggled to defend President Biden in his work for the country, placing blame for the economy on other…

The Bloomberg Opinion Editorial Board had a bit of a red pill moment on how bad the inflation crisis actually is, but didn’t lay any blame at the feet of President Joe Biden and the Federal Reserve.

The Washington Post whined that the energy crisis isn’t “spurring a green revolution” while many Americans suffer from skyrocketing food and gas prices.

President Joe Biden’s economic advisor told CNBC that the White House didn’t miss “much at all” on inflation. That was despite inflation firing up in June for the fastest increase since December 1981.

MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle is having a hard time deciding whether the economy is actually doing well or whether it isn’t, but President Biden bears no responsibility for it. On Monday’s edition of The 11th Hour, Ruhle delivered a monologue where absolved Biden of any blame and condemned Republicans for “using inflation to push people to the polls.”

A 25-year-old YouTuber and boxer seems to have found a new political punching bag: President Joe Biden.

CNN is experiencing the “life comes at you fast” adage in real time as a poor government prediction it touted on skyrocketing gas prices came back to haunt the network.

On the Friday edition of Morning Joe, the hosts and guests whined at Republicans for “deflecting and deflecting” the “attack on our democracy” and Joe Scarborough glorified Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as the new Winston Churchill of our time.

The NBC, CBS and ABC morning news shows largely ignored a devastating report showing that inflation skyrocketed in May for the fastest increase since December 1981.

Remember when The New York Times attempted to spin the 1970s stagflation crisis in order to protect former President Jimmy Carter’s political image before the 1980 elections? MRC Business does.

The Washington Post desperately tried to protect President Joe Biden from the political fallout of a gas price spike that it pretended in 2020 wouldn’t happen under his leadership.

Fox News host Charles Payne said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s stock trade timing was “impeccable” and suggested that “maybe Nancy Pelosi knows something we do not know.”