Perverse Incentives, Fiscal Consequences of Unemployment Benefits Should Factor Into Coverage

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) is dismissive of any suggestion that says extending unemployment benefits will create perverse incentives and discourage Americans from seeking work. Detailed economic studies that say otherwise have yet to find expression in the New York Times. Political figures should also be asked why they are reticent to enact offsetting spending cuts that would alleviate additional debt... Will the extension of unemployment benefits further add to the deficit and undermine long ...

Anti Tea Party Agenda Evident in Report on Poll Results

A new poll shows that Tea Party activists are well-educated, well-informed and financially independent. This does not exactly fit with the image the New York Times is trying to sell at the expense of small government activists... Angry white males who are opposed to anti-poverty initiatives fuel and animate the Tea Party movement, according to a front piece in the New York Times that explores the results of a new poll the newspaper organized in tandem with CBS News. The report includes int...

Professor Boudreaux Responds to Pro-Tariff Arguments

The productivity of foreign workers is not falsely attributed to American workers as George Mason Professor Donald Boudreaux explains in his letter to the editor. The understanding of productivity measurements promoted in a New York Times op-ed piece is "fatally confused," he says... Wrongheaded economic ideas that translate into flawed public policy still find their way into circulation thanks in no small part to the disinformation spread by a compliant news media. In a letter to the editor ...