Audit Interview: Jonathan Weil

“You have to be willing to lose stories that depend on access.”

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 14, 2008 at 10:13 AM

If you’ve missed Bloomberg columnist Jonathan Weil’s work over the past year, you’ve missed a lot. Early to sniff out... More

Globalization Gone Awry

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 14, 2008 at 09:39 AM

Steven Pearlstein makes some good points in his Washington Post column today on how and why American-style capitalism has broken... More

WSJ’s Page One Commodities

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 14, 2008 at 09:29 AM

The Journal’s front-page business stories are run-of-the-mill this morning, far from the glory days of yore. One reports that banks... More

AIG’s Accountability Affront

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 14, 2008 at 09:11 AM

Floyd Norris is right to say the bailouts are seriously lacking on the accountability front. Here he gives AIG a... More

WSJ’s Citi Fallout

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 14, 2008 at 08:27 AM

The Journal’s scoop yesterday that Citigroup’s board is considering firing its chairman made waves yesterday. The Times and the FT... More

This Is the End

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 14, 2008 at 08:04 AM

Michael Lewis has a great story in Portfolio looking at the demise of Wall Street. He tells the story of... More

WaPo: Waiting for a Watchdog

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 13, 2008 at 10:57 AM

The Washington Post reports that the oversight panel for the $700 billion bailout hasn’t been, um, impaneled. In fact: …no... More

The Journal Gets Inside Citi’s Boardroom

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 13, 2008 at 10:01 AM

The WSJ scoops this morning that Citigroup's board is considering firing its chairman, Sir Win Bischoff. Some directors have grown... More

Stewart on Fixing the Economy

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 13, 2008 at 09:52 AM

James B. Stewart, always worth reading, has some good thoughts in his Journal column on what Obama needs to do... More

FT’s New Site Is Big. Really Big.

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 13, 2008 at 09:39 AM

The Financial Times has redesigned its Web site, and on first impression, it’s just awful. Why are its Web readers,... More

Shop Till Your Bubble Pops

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 13, 2008 at 09:15 AM

This Times story on customers returning more merchandise to retailers (because of the bad economy) reads more like a story... More

Bloomberg Beats the Drums

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 13, 2008 at 08:43 AM

Bloomberg continues to push the government to disclose who it’s handing $2 trillion. Today it writes that five Republican congressmen,... More

WSJ: New York Investigates Swaps

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 13, 2008 at 08:25 AM

The Journal has an interesting story on an investigation into the credit-default swaps market. New York Attorney General Andrew (Spitzer’s... More

Paulson Pile-on

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 13, 2008 at 07:58 AM

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s credibility continues to dwindle—not a good thing, considering the markets and the economy need to believe... More

WSJ: Banks Hit a “Home Run” with AIG Bailout

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 12, 2008 at 09:45 AM

The WSJ is good here in looking at how the newly expanded AIG bailout is basically a backdoor bailout to... More

Consumer Crash

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 12, 2008 at 09:24 AM

David Leonhardt has some interesting numbers in his column in the Times today and makes the case that the talked-about... More

Yes, It’s This Bad

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 12, 2008 at 08:58 AM

Barry Ritholtz over at his newly redesigned (like ours, hope you noticed) site, does a good deed posting the information... More

Rockin’ in the Fee World

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 12, 2008 at 08:35 AM

Here’s a good, newsy personal-finance story. The Journal reports that banks are turning the screws on their customers, pushing those... More

Glass of Milk with Your “Bailout Pie”?

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 12, 2008 at 08:09 AM

The New York Times takes a good look at the feeding frenzy of Washington lobbyists trying to get a piece... More

Audit Roundup: Underwater in California

NYT on a town where 90 percent have negative equity; Journal is good on retail jobs evaporating; etc.

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 11, 2008 at 09:33 AM

The New York Times finds a place where 90 percent of the mortgages are underwater, the most in the country.... More