Old-School Journal Leder Spotted in the Wild

The paper finds greenwashing in the jungle by Estée Lauder

By Ryan Chittum   May 5, 2011 at 02:19 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a superb page-one story today about greenwashing—the reality behind an American company's marketing of an... More

Audit Notes: Globalization and Corporate Crime, Capital Gains, Auto Correct

By Ryan Chittum   May 4, 2011 at 07:23 PM

— Columbia's Jeffrey Sachs is riled up these days. He has an interesting piece on how and why corporate crime... More

The Regulators on the Bus

A Times story shows the resources gap between regulators and Wall Street

By Ryan Chittum   May 4, 2011 at 12:28 PM

We've wondered often just what it is that makes our financial regulators so toothless in the wake of the widespread... More

Audit Notes: Levin-Coburn Referrals; Falling Dollar, Rising Exports; Amazon Watch

By Ryan Chittum   May 3, 2011 at 08:12 PM

Bloomberg reports that Senators Carl Levin and Tom Coburn have formally referred their bipartisan investigation of the financial crisis, and... More

Lucky Duckies Waddle Onto the WSJ News Pages

The poor and lower middle class pay federal taxes, too

By Ryan Chittum   May 3, 2011 at 02:53 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a poor story today reporting that "High-Earning Households Pay Growing Share of Taxes." The paper's... More

Too Big to Fail: New Jersey Mall Edition

Chris Christie can’t let Xanadu go under; $400 million in corporate welfare

By Ryan Chittum   May 2, 2011 at 07:50 PM

What corporate interest won't Chris Christie subsidize with taxpayer dollars? The New Jersey governor, press favorite, and conservative hero is... More

WSJ Notes That Commodities Go Down, Too

By Ryan Chittum   May 2, 2011 at 12:11 PM

The business press is much more sensitive to signs of price increases than it is to signs of price decreases.... More

The WSJ Editorial Board Whiffs on Taxes

Bad math plus hypocrisy on deficits equals Review & Outlook

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 22, 2011 at 04:22 PM

The New Republic's Jonathan Chait and Columbia's Jeffrey Sachs rip into the Wall Street Journal editorial page for making some... More

Follow the Money Leads On the Iowa AG

While the press follows on a campaign-cash story

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 22, 2011 at 12:05 PM

The National Institute on Money in State Politics's Follow The Money site reports on how campaign donations from the financial... More

WSJ Goes Page One With Another Gold “Record”

But in real terms the price is more than a third below its peak three decades ago

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 22, 2011 at 03:09 AM

It's time for another round of hyped and misleading "gold hits a record" stories. Gold closed at $1,500 for the... More

Big Companies and Jobs, Then and Now

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 21, 2011 at 10:46 PM

New York's Andre Tartar has a intriguing post on the biggest American corporations and how much their employment levels have... More

Cries For Help From Wall Street

Tie our hands before we strike again

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 21, 2011 at 08:31 AM

Financial Times columnist John Gapper had a good piece in New York a couple of weeks back about the psychology... More

Audit Notes: Financial Fraud and the Economy, TBTF Debts, Health Care

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 21, 2011 at 12:03 AM

Mike Konczal has some good thoughts on the Levin-Coburn Report, financial fraud, and ProPublica's Pulitzer win for their Wall Street... More

Barron’s On a Deadly Russian Tax Heist

Bureaucrats and thugs laundered hundreds of millions through Credit Suisse

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2011 at 06:49 PM

Bill Alpert has a must-read story in Barron's this week—a wild tale of overt Russian corruption involving a $230 million... More

Chris Christie’s Corporate Welfare

A $102 million tax break for a Japanese company to stay in New Jersey

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2011 at 01:46 PM

Chris Christie is a hero to the right and something of a media darling for his willingness to slash government... More

Audit Notes: Sorkin Hits Goldman, Agape at Capes, Preemption Doctrine

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2011 at 08:36 PM

Andrew Ross Sorkin gets just about as close to saying "Goldman Sachs lied to Congress" as you're going to see.... More

The Miami Herald Gets Creative on the Bum Economy

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2011 at 07:09 PM

It's sometimes hard to find new angles on a story like the bum economy, which has been an ongoing story... More

That Giant Sucking Sound

WSJ: Big companies shed millions of jobs in 2000s while adding millions abroad

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2011 at 03:03 PM

The Wall Street Journal has your chart of the day. It shows that U.S.-based multinational corporations added 2.4 million workers... More

Audit Notes: Pulitzer Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 18, 2011 at 08:30 PM

The financial crisis is now more than three years old, but up to now there had been no Pulitzer Prize... More

Newspaper Turnaround Stories

Give credit to the creditors and the courts before the CEOs

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 18, 2011 at 04:24 PM

David Carr takes a look today at the fortunes of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which have stopped plummeting at least... More