Measuring the Ongoing Cost of Too Big to Fail

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 5, 2009 at 10:21 AM

I haven't seen anyone try to estimate the implicit subsidy taxpayers provide megabanks because of Too Big to Fail policies.... More

Friday Links: Wolff, Shirky, Veterans for Socialism

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 2, 2009 at 06:45 PM

Michael Wolff, whose Newser depends on free news for its existence, rips Rupert Murdoch in Vanity Fair for planning to... More

Hiltzik With a Reality Check on Tort Reform

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 2, 2009 at 04:11 PM

Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times has a helpful column cutting through some of the noise in the health-care... More

Norris Asks Why Cash Subsidizes Plastic

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 2, 2009 at 10:09 AM

Floyd Norris raises a very good point in his column today on merchant credit-card fees: Why do we have a... More

Good Show by the Journal Today

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 1, 2009 at 03:15 PM

Dean Starkman tipped his hat to a Wall Street Journal story this morning on Detroit, part of a string of... More

Buy a Kindle, Get the Times for Free

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 1, 2009 at 11:56 AM

A Friend of The Audit passed us an email he got from The New York Times offering a package deal... More

Weil: Bank Balance Sheets Still an Unknown

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 1, 2009 at 09:58 AM

Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil raises some good questions about what we really know about the banking industry's health this morning, looking... More

Gasparino’s Gossip Column

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 30, 2009 at 02:41 PM

Charlie Gasparino really wants you to know that Wall Street executives are "nervous" and "feel betrayed" by Barack Obama. Is... More

CQ Stomps Out Newsroom Dissent

Setting a bad example by firing a veteran editor for impertinence

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 30, 2009 at 08:04 AM

When the human-resources folks come for you, and in journalism these days that's not infrequent, you have to hope somebody... More

The Journal Edges to the Right

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 29, 2009 at 11:23 AM

Charles Kaiser had a good piece this weekend questioning whether Rupert Murdoch's ideology has been seeping into the news pages... More

WaPo: How the Fed Failed to Protect Consumers

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 28, 2009 at 03:18 PM

The Washington Post ran an excellent story yesterday looking at the Federal Reserve's utter failure to protect consumers—indeed to even... More

Now Bloomberg Calls it an Obama Bull Market

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 28, 2009 at 12:49 PM

I nicked Bloomberg for a story in March calling the stock-market swoon an "Obama Bear Market." Now it's saying there's... More

Morgenson on a Mortgage Front

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 28, 2009 at 09:51 AM

Gretchen Morgenson, unlike the rest of the press, pays attention to a Kansas court ruling last week that has potentially... More

Craigslist vs. the Aggregators

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 21, 2009 at 03:44 PM

Wired's cover story this month is a terrific look at craigslist and why it's awesome and not very good, all... More

Suggested Readings

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 18, 2009 at 05:30 PM

The New York Times's Charles Duhigg continues his eye-opening investigation of the state of the nation's water quality, today looking... More

WSJ: Hey, Readers—Your Jobs Aren’t That Important

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 18, 2009 at 03:45 PM

I really like this page-one Wall Street Journal story today looking at the financialization of the economy over the past... More

Pearlstein: Fundamental Reform for Credit Ratings

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 18, 2009 at 10:13 AM

Steven Pearlstein does well to keep the credit-ratings firms in the spotlight, a place it seems they've been all too... More

Suggested Readings

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 17, 2009 at 06:37 PM

Michael Mandel of BusinessWeek calculates some rough numbers on journalism employment. Newspaper employment is fast approaching a 50 percent decline... More

Missing the Point on the Anglicization of the WSJ

“Come a cropper” is the least of the paper’s problems

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 17, 2009 at 05:17 PM

It's good to see somebody else notice the Anglicization of the The Wall Street Journal. It's not good that that... More

“Learned, Baroque, and Quite Frequently Terrifying”

The New Republic profiles the Financial Times’s Martin Wolf

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 17, 2009 at 01:39 PM

We're big fans of the Financial Times's Martin Wolf here at The Audit. His Wednesday columns and occasional takeouts are... More