Ask Obama This: What about housing?

What went wrong with the administration’s mortgage policies

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 11, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Over the final month of the campaign, CJR will run a series of posts under the headline “Ask Obama This”... More

Audit Notes: The FT’s prospects, another victimized billionaire, Bain & Co.

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 10, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Michael Wolff writes in The Guardian about the Financial Times's prospects now that Pearson CEO Marjorie Scardino, a booster of... More

Neutron Jack: ‘I quit!’

Welch ends Fortune and Reuters contracts after tough coverage

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 9, 2012 at 01:51 PM

I've long wondered why business magazines run Jack Welch's columns. BusinessWeek ran it for years but stopped a month after... More

Audit Notes: BLS BS, another print turnaround forecast, deficits

The LAT and CNBC let Jack Welch frame the jobs numbers

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 9, 2012 at 12:15 PM

Don't miss Brendan Nyhan's excellent review of coverage of the unemployment-numbers conspiracy theory kicked off by Jack Welch on Friday.... More

Jack Welch and anti-business sentiment

The former GE CEO, still a business press hero

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Former GE CEO Jack Welch made waves last week claiming—with zero evidence—that the Obama administration manipulated the unemployment report that... More

Bleacher Report and the race to the bottom

SF Weekly rips Turner Broadcasting’s nearly $200 million purchase

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 5, 2012 at 01:32 PM

Bleacher Report is a sort of Demand Media of sports, a content farm engineered to get search engine visits with... More

Audit Notes: Romney and taxes, prison phone racket, WSJ

The Atlantic eyes the Republican’s corporate tax plan

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 5, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Nobody can figure out what exactly Mitt Romney wants to do with taxes. His plan is mathematically impossible, and Wednesday... More

Audit Notes: Mansion, inequality and the crash, FT on Schneiderman

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 4, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The business press continues to roll out the 0.1 percent porn. Now it's The Wall Street Journal launching a new... More

Forbes’s myth of the Reagan boom

A columnist’s misleading economic history

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 3, 2012 at 06:40 PM

Peter Ferrara, currently of the climate-change denying Heartland Institute and formerly of Jack Abramoff's payroll and the Reagan and Bush... More

Audit Notes: Insert hospice joke here, Web pagination, too big to value

The Washington Post diversifies its business into end-of-life care

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 3, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The Washington Post is getting into the hospice business, which prompted a few too many obvious jokes about death and... More

Romney’s gift to reporters

A Bloomberg investigation details yet another aspect of the candidate’s tax avoidance

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 2, 2012 at 07:50 AM

The decision by Republicans to run a super-wealthy former financier for president four years into a serious economic downturn triggered... More

Audit Notes: wincing with WSJ, Golden Dawn, energy-market manipulation

Treasury candidates and Journal art

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 2, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The Wall Street Journal reports that President Obama is trying to fire up the base with trial balloons on who... More

Audit Notes: inside the Fed, few use Twitter, entitled ‘job creators’

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 1, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The Wall Street Journal takes us inside how Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke convinced his colleagues to go all in on... More

Billionaires made from scratch? Hardly

Forbes spins a bogus Horatio Alger story about its 400 richest list

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 28, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Forbes touts its annual list of the 400 richest U.S. billionaires as evidence "that the American dream is still... More

Audit Notes: NYT’s Web bonanza, Doctor on paywalls, capital gains taxes

The paper sells its stake in a jobs site for a stunning profit

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 28, 2012 at 12:46 AM

The New York Times Company has sold its stake in the Indeed.com jobs site for $100 million profit, which ain't... More

Smartphone money

The Journal on how phones are weighing more on family budgets

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The Wall Street Journal is good to take a look at how smartphone bills are eating up a chunk of... More

The capital gains preference

Why Mitt Romney’s taxes are so low and whether economics justifies it

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 26, 2012 at 07:26 AM

Forbes, as Joe Nocera points out this morning, thinks that its list of the 400 richest US billionaires "instills confidence... More

Audit Notes: newspaper war, inflation fears, executive pay

The Times-Picayune says it planned to go into Baton Rouge all along

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The Times-Picayune plans to move into Baton Rouge to hit back at the Advocate's move into New Orleans. But publisher... More

Audit Notes: Digital First takedown, here comes the WSJ, debt and taxes

The Awl roughs up Journal Register’s flagship paper

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 24, 2012 at 10:51 AM

Brett Sokol, writes one of the most brutal piece of media criticism I've read in a long time. He examines... More

The Newhouses strike back

The Times-Picayune goes to war with the encroaching Baton Rouge Advocate

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 21, 2012 at 03:00 PM

After Advance Publications announced it would gut the still-profitable New Orleans Times-Picayune's newsroom and slash publication to three days a... More