TheStreet.com’s Marek Fuchs wrote that anybody who believes that politics doesn’t influence business coverage hasn’t been paying attention.
“It later surmises that the stock market might be taking special comfort in the prospect of gridlock, bringing up the prospect of President Bush using a veto pen, a pen, incidentally, he’d have to find, because so far it has seemed to have been buried somewhere in his desk. In any case, this story would appear to suffer from the liberal bias we’re talking about. It’s not necessarily a bias in favor of Democrats but a bias that there is no greater force than Washington. Anyone who wants a good sense of where the economy and stock market are headed is well advised to ignore any talk that presupposes this and focus on the larger forces of the economy.”
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