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CNBC’s Jim Cramer Babbles Fed ‘May Be Winning’ Against Inflation

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September 14th, 2022 11:03 AM

Why did CNBC’s Jim Cramer think it was a good idea to sycophantically praise the Federal Reserve’s inflation-reduction measures the day before the release of an awful inflation report?

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Morning Joe Surprisingly Skeptical Of Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness

August 26th, 2022 11:15 PM

Morning Joe is surprisingly skeptical of Biden's student loan forgiveness program. Much of the criticism aired focused on the unfairness of the plan, which helps people who have gone deep into college debt, while doing nothing for those who didn't go to college, or who saved to go to college or went to less expensive schools.

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Former Obama Economist Says ‘Team Transitory Proved Dead Wrong’

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April 8th, 2022 5:00 PM

The director of former President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council landed some solid punches and dished out some harsh warnings for the Federal Reserve in a recent Washington Post op-ed.  

Krugman Tries to HOODWINK America: ‘How Not to Panic About Inflation’

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March 26th, 2021 2:28 PM

The New York Times economist Paul Krugman tried to hoodwink Americans by downplaying inflation concerns brought on by President Joe Biden’s massive $1.9 trillion stimulus package.

Obama Econ Adviser Larry Summers Warns Biden Stimulus Poses Big Risks

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February 8th, 2021 11:12 AM

One of former President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council directors shocked the internet by criticizing the enormity of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief proposal.

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MSNBC Condemns Obama Advisor For Criticizing Biden

February 5th, 2021 6:29 PM

It turns out that it is not just Republicans who think the $1.9 trillion price tag on President Biden's COVID relief package is too high, but also former director of the National Economic Council under Obama and Clinton Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. 

7 Times Media Pushed CEOs to Dump Trump Over Charlottesville

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August 16th, 2017 5:06 PM
The media don’t just make the news, they frame it. Journalists did it this week, pushing business CEOs to quit President Donald Trump’s American Manufacturing Council. After one CEO resigned in response to Trump’s comments on the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, the media urged others to follow. The fallout resulted in Trump shutting down the group entirely. Merck CEO Ken Frazier decided…

MSNBC Highlights Anti-Limbaugh Organization, Fails to Mention They Hel

March 7th, 2012 3:47 PM
Continuing her network's anti-Limbaugh drumbeat today, MSNBC's Tamron Hall interviewed a little-known feminist activist by the name of Shaunna Thomas of the equally unfamiliar group UltraViolet, which is campaigning to deprive Rush Limbaugh of all of his sponsors. UltraViolet, apparently, is famous for pushing the specious and ultimately discredited claims about a supposed anti-abortion clinic…

CBS's Reid Rips Obama's Anti-Wall Street Populism: 'Sounds More Like P

January 25th, 2010 3:09 PM
Is the luster finally wearing off the love affair between the White House press corps and President Barack Obama? It is, if CBS White House correspondent Chip Reid's analysis of President Barack Obama's latest Wall Street proposals is anything to go by. Reid appeared on the Fox Business Network's Jan. 25 "Imus in the Morning" program and offered an update on the president's financial and…

Newsweek: Obama Economic Guru Is 'Lucid' and 'Dazzling,' Unless He Mov

February 23rd, 2009 10:36 PM

Time Hails Larry Summers, the 'Big Brain' Who 'May Save Our Butt

February 3rd, 2009 5:57 PM
When Time magazine likes a liberal, they really, really like them.Time’s profile of Obama’s "economic wise man" Larry Summers boils over with superlatives. The February 9 edition’s Table of Contents is brief, but gooey: "The brilliant, slightly bumbling man who may save our butt." His photo carried the caption: "Big brain: Summers is planning nothing short of a complete overhaul of the U.S.…

Conason: Don't Worry, Liberals--Obama Still Planning Radical Change

November 27th, 2008 10:57 AM
Joe Conason's column should be as chilling to conservatives as it is meant to be comforting to liberals.  His message: don't be distracted by the centrist-seeming appointments Pres.-elect Obama has made to his economic team.  He remains as committed as ever to his radical agenda.Conason's commentary appears this morning at Rasmussen Reports.  Key lines [emphasis added]:[W]hen liberals point to…

CBS Highlights Criticism of Obama’s Cabinet ... From Liberals

November 25th, 2008 8:11 PM