Fox Business Network anchor Alexis Glick is frustrated by the way the government’s $700 billion financial bailout is being used, and suggested on “Money for Breakfast” Nov. 21 that it was…
Pulitzer-Prize winning author and professor of history at Stanford University David M. Kennedy told Bloomberg radio Nov. 18 that the current financial crisis bears no comparison to the Great…
"The Biz Flog" for Nov. 19, takes a look at the media's new interest in hedge funds. Congress is looking into more regulation for these types of funds.
FBN Anchor Alexis Glick said the Treasury Department’s move away from their original plan to buy up troubled mortgages “Doesn’t make sense” and was “actually pretty outrageous,” on “The Early Show…
Lawmakers and the transition team for the Obama administration are discussing the prospects of a bailout for the auto industry.
Democratic Governor Jon Corzine of New Jersey, who has pushed for an additional economic stimulus package to the tune of $300 billion to support infrastructure projects, might be Treasury…
CNBC’s “Squwak Box” was skeptical over the future of opinionated cable news Nov. 4 if Sen. Barack Obama won the presidential election over Senator John McCain.
CNBC’s Erin Burnett told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that although the markets might get a boost from a Senator John McCain win, Wall Street was predicting that Senator Barrack Obama will win the…
Better late than never. On Oct. 30, the day after Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama’s half-hour prime time infomercial, CBS “Evening News” took a skeptical look at the candidate’s…
“ABC News Now,” the cable news arm of ABC News, had a treat for viewers on Oct. 31, but the “good news” didn’t mention the recently announced merger between Northwest and Delta.
CBS's Julie Chen wasn't optimpistic about the price of airfare this Thanksgiving. But, her guest, the editor-in-chief of Travelocity was, giving her some facts on the industry.
"The Biz Flog" for Oct. 29 takes a look at a UCLA study from 2004 that found FDR's New Deal prolonged the Great Depression.
Former Chairman and CEO of Citigroup Sanford Weill told “The Early Show,” Oct. 28 that unemployment would hit 9 percent and that Wall Street CEOs “didn’t deserve bonuses this year.”
CBS's "The Early Show" went after food companies for downsizing their products. The report downplayed the effect a mandate for biofuels has had on the industry.
CNN aired a "Fat Cats" special taking a few jabs at the CEOs of Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch.
OK everyone, it's time to meet the TED Spread if you want to understand how we are going to get out of this credit crisis. The TED Spread measures whether banks are lending or not.
"CNN Newsroom" reported that Hawaii will drop its health care program for children. They didn't say it was because people were dropping their private insurance to jump to the government insurance…
CNBC's Joe Kernan told chief Washington correspondent John Harwood that the Joe-the-plumber story "would be huge" and even a "bombshell" any other year, but only the New York Post picked it up and…
Today's episode of "The Biz Flog" features a clip of you know who -- Joe (The Plumber) Wurzelbacher talking about taxes. But he isn't the only one. The Wall Street Journal penned an op-ed titled "…
CBS' "Early Show" asked kids, not experts on finance, what they think of the credit crisis.
The federal bailout of the financial industry is replete with earmarks, including a rum earmark in particular.
CBS's "The Early Show" October 3 reported on new regulations of over-the-counter cough and cold medicines for children by the Food and Drug Administration, but they included no representation by…
The media didn't cover mark-to-market accounting much before the House vote on a financial bailout Sept. 29. It turns out mark-to-market was a dealbreaker for some lawmakers.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) blamed Alan Greespan for keeping the Federal Funds rate too low.
"The Biz Flog" takes a look at the debate over whether short sellers had anything to do with the failure of banks on Wall Street.