Working the AIG Beat

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2009 at 04:05 PM

The Journal's good scoop this weekend on the AIG counterparties is somewhat furthered today by Fortune's Carol Loomis. And now... More

NPR, Starkman on the Pre-Crisis Press Coverage

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2009 at 09:50 AM

David Folkenflik of NPR looked this morning at how the media performed in the runup to the crisis, and The... More

Laughing Down the Prophets

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2009 at 09:30 AM

I ran across this clip last week, and think it's a pretty eye-opening example of how bears and outliers are... More

Bloomberg Looks at Merrill’s $34 Million Man

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2009 at 08:40 AM

Bloomberg keeps the Andrea Orcel story alive with a nice piece today. Orcel is the Merrill Lynch banker who took... More

WSJ Exposes Corruption at the FDA

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 6, 2009 at 04:23 PM

The Journal on page one today shines a bright light on some shady doings at the FDA, finding that Democratic... More

It’s Obama’s Bear Market, Says Bloomberg

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 6, 2009 at 11:52 AM

We've seen a meme spreading like a fungus in the press, mostly on the editorial/analysis/commentator side so far, blaming Barack... More

Transparency for AIG Gets a Boost

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 6, 2009 at 08:55 AM

Lawmakers are finally getting seriously ticked off at the Federal Reserve for concealing who is really benefiting from the bailout... More

Remains of the Day

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 5, 2009 at 08:11 PM

-- A couple of professors in an NYT op-ed make a convincing case that the Obama/Geithner housing bailout is doomed... More

Journal Writes, Journal Gets Results

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 5, 2009 at 04:02 PM

It was just yesterday that we saw the WSJ's impressive effort tracking down the bonus babies at Merrill Lynch, who... More

The Daily Show Eviscerates Santelli and CNBC

Criticism of both lands bruising blows

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 5, 2009 at 11:05 AM

In the annals of business-press criticism, we are humbled to have to admit that there may have never been anything... More

Bloomberg Finds Conflicts of Interest in Debtland

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 5, 2009 at 08:57 AM

Bloomberg News is excellent this morning looking at yet another problem caused by the giant, unregulated credit-default swaps market. First... More

False Balance in the Times

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 4, 2009 at 09:51 PM

This unfortunate lede mars an otherwise solid story in the NYT today on how former Countrywide executives are now snatching... More

NYT Charts the Recession

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 4, 2009 at 01:09 PM

I really like this David Leonhardt column in the Times on who and where the recession is impacting most. It's... More

TARP Carp Is Hardly Convincing

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 4, 2009 at 09:47 AM

Daniel Gross over at Slate calls out the banks whining that the TARP billions they took are tying them down.... More

The Journal Outside the Bubble

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 4, 2009 at 08:58 AM

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent page-one story this morning exposing Merrill Lynch's top earners of 2008. It's another... More

Fortune’s Most Admired Banks

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 3, 2009 at 12:16 PM

1. Bank of America. Because you've got to admire a company that apparently makes it through the crisis only to... More

Who Could Have Seen This Coming?

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 3, 2009 at 09:58 AM

CNBC is now scrambling to undo the damage caused by Rick Santelli's outburst and NBC's aggressive promotion of the harangue.... More

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