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1. November 30, 2012 12:41 AM

   Hot air Rises Above on CNBC

   An anchor pins a minor dip in stocks on the TV appearance of a minor politician

   By Ryan Chittum

   Rise Above, if you're among the 99.95 percent of the country who don't watch CNBC on a given day, is the network's campaign against the government for not putting "politics" aside to come to a budget agreement that's to the stock market's liking. It's also an unlikely crusade, as I noted last week, from a news organization with some of...

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2. November 20, 2012 02:57 PM

   Rise Above, CNBC’s move into advocacy

   Corporate America's house organ starts an anti-political political campaign

   By Ryan Chittum

   Any time you see Wall Street CEOs and CNBC campaigning for what they call the common good, it's worth raising an eyebrow or two. So it is with CNBC's "Rise Above" crusade, which has blanketed its airwaves and adorned its lapels since the day after the election with pleas for a solution to the so-called "fiscal cliff." You'll note that...

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3. November 13, 2012 06:50 AM

   Who really holds leverage on Bush tax cuts?

   Bloomberg's Barro argues even post-"cliff," GOP would have the upper hand

   By Greg Marx

   My Friday post about how reporters are missing a big part of the “fiscal cliff” story—the leverage President Obama and congressional Democrats can gain in the debate over rich people’s taxes by not doing anything until after the New Year—opened by approvingly citing a blog post by Slate’s Matt Yglesias. And I added an update at the end flagging a...

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