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Edward Schatz | April 14, 2009

Armen Keteyian was befuddled by oil companies’ unwillingness to start drilling in leased land. The CBS correspondent filed a report on the CBS “Evening News” on April 13 wondering why the oil companies, ExxonMobil in particular, are allowing some…

Edward Schatz | April 3, 2009

After months of doom and gloom, suggestions of the next Great Depression and stories on “tent cities,” the New York Times and CNN.com ran similar, positive pieces on the housing market.

 

While the depressed housing market and…

Edward Schatz | March 20, 2009

Maybe he’ll fare better than other aging child stars, but for now, he’s something of an embarrassment. Cute and cuddly sold climate panic. Predatory and perilous does not.

Two years ago on March 23, Knut the polar bear cub who was saved by…

Edward Schatz | March 10, 2009

For all intents and purposes, Jim Cramer has left the Obama “Hope and Change” express. In an interview with Meredith Viera on the March 10 “Today” show, Cramer, along with Erin Burnett of CNBC, sounded off on the Obama administration’s plan to…

Edward Schatz | March 9, 2009

Even with our economic troubles, things are not yet as bad at the Depression-era with its unemployment level of about 25 percent. But that didn’t stop the “Today” show from drawing the comparison with a “modern day shanty town” near the “railroad…

Edward Schatz | March 6, 2009

On March 5, Jim Cramer published a response on his website to White House attacks on his credibility on financial issues. The most startling aspect of the response was Cramer’s admission on his politics. “To be totally out of the closet, I…