Heritage Foundation Report on Sen. Dodd’s Bill Should be Cited to Balance Out Coverage

In an effort to sell and promote Sen. Chris Dodd's financial overhaul bill, the New York Times is keeping all the focus and attention on Goldman Sachs and its questionable transactions. But as a new analysis from Heritage Foundation shows, it is the political class that will ulimately cost U.S. taxpayers, not Goldman executives... Government agents are expanding their investigation of Goldman Sachs beyond the mortgage deal singled out in the charge filed by the Securities and Exchange Commiss...

Fixation on Goldman Sachs Practices Overlooks Government Meddling

President Obama and his congressional allies are looking to extend the government's control of the financial sector with the help of a compliant news media. The New York Times eagerly takes up this charge in a front page story that suggests to readers that the unsavory practices of Goldman Sachs are to blame for their fiscal woes but the premise here is all wrong... Washington’s culpability in the housing crisis and its larger economic fallout continues to go unreported in the liberal news me...

Government Takeover Schemes, Taxpayer Concerns Go Missing In NYT

Up until now, the New York Times has fixated on the White House public relations campaign on behalf of Sen. Chris Dodd's financial sector bill and some of the Republican response. But precious little attention has been devoted to the specific aspects of the bill that could impact taxpayers. A new study from Americans for Limited Government (ALG) could jump start a series of reports that are more substantive and meaningful to readers... Taxpayer concerns are mentioned as a mere afterthought in...

Backdoor Bailout of Goldman Sachs Should Be Reported

Even as Sen. Chris Dodd and other top Democrats posture as noble anti-corporate reformers, they have found a backdoor way to bailout Goldman Sachs. Most of the reporting vilifies speculative trading and oversized companies, but what about the public policy side of the equation? There are particular elements of Dodd's bill that have thus far escaped media attention... Republicans who are opposed to the financial overhaul bill ostensibly aimed against Wall Street fat cats could find themselves ...

Health Care Nominee “Personifies” Obama and Earns Whitewash

President Obama has selected a highly regarded medical professional to step in as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This individual "personifies Mr. Obama's determination to shake up the health care industry" and so naturally he earns praise from the NYT... Americans who are concerned about the pending government takeover of their health care services should know that top notch administrators will be in charge of the new bureaucracies that stand between them an...