AIG and the $19 Trillion

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 3, 2009 at 08:54 AM

The Times's Andrew Ross Sorkin has an interesting column based on an AIG document he got hold of that spells... More

ProPublica Advances OTS Story

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 2, 2009 at 03:50 PM

John Reich's tenure at The Office of Thrift Supervision was dismal. We've known that for a while. The Washington Post... More

The Times’s Incredibly Uninteresting Google Feature

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 2, 2009 at 10:59 AM

I confess I just couldn't bring myself to read the jump of yesterday's 2,600 word New York Times piece on... More

Nocera Explains the AIG Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 2, 2009 at 08:40 AM

Joe Nocera's column in the Saturday Times is an excellent explanation of how sick the business practices were at AIG... More

Fortune: Pimco Too Big to Fail?

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 27, 2009 at 01:41 PM

I'm big on the common-sense idea that if a company is too big to fail that means it should have... More

Norris on the Fed’s Culpability

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 27, 2009 at 10:05 AM

Floyd Norris makes some very good points about the Federal Reserve this morning in The New York Times, noting that... More

Audit Interview: Mark Pittman

“This is a defining moment for business journalism and for Wall Street.”

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 27, 2009 at 08:45 AM

(UPDATE, November 29, 2009: Mark died a couple of days ago. It's a huge loss and we'll have more on... More

Hurray for the Dolans!

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 26, 2009 at 05:25 PM

Those are words I never thought I'd write. Cablevision is going to start charging readers to view its content, according... More

What Took You So Long, Gannett?

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 26, 2009 at 10:36 AM

Gannett, the biggest newspaper chain, has finally cut its dividend, and in a major way. It's a long overdue move... More

Reuters on the Scope of Unrest in Europe

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 26, 2009 at 10:12 AM

Reuters has a nice roundup of unrest in Europe—much of it labor protests—it says is being caused by the financial... More

Wired and the Math Formula of Doom

A hit, followed by a miss

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 26, 2009 at 08:42 AM

Part of the problem in explaining the genesis of the financial crisis is that much of it was just so... More

One Black Swan You’ll Never See

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 25, 2009 at 12:37 PM

Nassim Nicholas Taleb of Black Swan fame has a provocative column this morning in the Financial Times—a little too provocative.... More

Journal Inside the Citi Mess

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 25, 2009 at 08:59 AM

The Journal has a very readable story this morning on the tensions between Citigroup and the government. It shows the... More

Santelli and the White House

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 24, 2009 at 03:10 PM

Rick Santelli continues to make a fool of himself, touring the media to defend his call for a "tea party"... More

FT’s Murrow Moment

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 24, 2009 at 10:35 AM

Nationalization is inevitable—and sooner rather than later. That according to the Financial Times's New York banking reporter Francesco Guerrera. I... More

Murdoch Fires Back at the Times

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 24, 2009 at 08:35 AM

The Wall Street Journal fired back at The New York Times story yesterday about Murdoch's newspaper affinity dragging down News... More

Santelli’s “Tea Party” Illustrates Press Failure

The mobs want to string up the wrong people

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 20, 2009 at 04:21 PM

As the light from the torches gleans from a million pitchfork tines after Rick Santelli's bizarre, gasket-blowing performance on CNBC... More

WSJ Up on BofA

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 20, 2009 at 08:33 AM

The Journal stays ahead on the Bank of America/Merrill Lynch story this morning, with a scoop that the New York... More

CNBC Editor: The People Are Revolting!

Santelli plays Mel Brooks playing Louis XVI

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 19, 2009 at 06:05 PM

In the annals of CNBC cluelessness, this morning’s outburst by the channel’s Rick Santelli is up there with the worst.... More

Really, Forbes?

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 19, 2009 at 09:54 AM

I don't think it's quite time to start calling this economic crisis a depression, as if it's just a fact.... More