Bond Charts Should Be As Good As Stock Charts

Right Now They Just Lie There

By Holly Yeager   May 11, 2010 at 01:49 PM

The papers are filled with charts illustrating Monday’s big rebound in the stock market. But what we really need these... More

WaPo Does Well on Payday Lenders Pushing for Protection

By Holly Yeager   May 10, 2010 at 01:40 PM

The Washington Post does a nice job of highlighting just how worried payday lenders and check cashers are about the... More

Warning: Trans-Atlantic Tensions Ahead

By Holly Yeager   May 7, 2010 at 12:14 PM

There’s been a small, but sharp, undercurrent of trans-Atlantic tension in this week’s coverage of the Greek debt crisis. Judging... More

Greek Omens

Bizpress was around the story; not too alarmist

By Holly Yeager   May 6, 2010 at 04:06 PM

The business press is starting to get used to this crisis-and-collapse thing. There was an eerie prescience in this morning’s... More

He Said-She Said Victim

By Holly Yeager   May 5, 2010 at 02:19 PM

After a few weeks of news coverage of Republican complaints that the financial reform legislation moving through Congress would permit... More

Audit D.C. Notes: NYT on Obama’s Juggling Act; Mystery Pollster on How It’s Done in the U.K., FT on the Very Long View

By Holly Yeager   May 4, 2010 at 04:21 PM

President Obama’s ideological juggling act gets thoughtful treatment from the NYT’s Jackie Calmes. There’s no real news in the piece,... More

The Journal Comes Up Short on Lawmakers’ Short Selling

By Holly Yeager   May 4, 2010 at 12:09 PM

The Wall Street Journal has good instincts today, looking for hypocrisy in a place it’s known to dwell: Capitol Hill.... More

Ignatius on the Downside of the Inside Story

By Holly Yeager   May 3, 2010 at 04:11 PM

The Washington Post’s David Ignatius did us all a favor in Sunday’s Outlook section, with a critical look at embedding—a... More

Def Com: It’s Alive

Early Coverage of Deficit Commission, from Gloomy to Doomed

By Holly Yeager   Apr 27, 2010 at 12:06 PM

The deficit commission created by President Obama holds its first meeting today, and a couple of preview pieces stand out... More

Look at the Jobless Rate for the New Joads

By Holly Yeager   Apr 26, 2010 at 02:32 PM

Naked Capitalism shines some light on an aspect of the long, sad unemployment story that we don’t hear nearly enough... More

The Future? We Hope Not

NYT’s Politico profile paints a scary picture

By Holly Yeager   Apr 21, 2010 at 04:32 PM

The New York Times magazine profile of Mike Allen, the force-of-nature Politico reporter, has been much anticipated—at least in the... More

Bartlett on Shallow Think Tanks—and How the Press Jumps in Them

By Holly Yeager   Apr 20, 2010 at 09:26 AM

Think tanks are in Washington’s DNA. But despite their outsized role in our politics and policy debates, the press rarely... More

USA Today Blurs an Important Mortgage Line

By Holly Yeager   Apr 16, 2010 at 12:11 PM

Looking for more good economic news? I see USA Today is ready to declare that the worst of the foreclosure... More

Audit D.C. Notes: The Post Explains Competing Stern Narratives; NYT on the Revolting Revolving Door, John Kay on the Failures of Economics

By Holly Yeager   Apr 14, 2010 at 04:35 PM

Since Politico’s Ben Smith reported Andy Stern’s planned exit from SEIU on Monday, there have been competing narratives applied to... More

WaPo, with Optimistic-but-Anonymous Officials, Spins Deficit Story Forward

By Holly Yeager   Apr 13, 2010 at 03:05 PM

The Washington Post’s page-one story about the federal deficit is generating a lot of buzz, as it should. It’s got... More