WSJ Crushes the Competition

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 27, 2009 at 10:02 AM

The Journal dominates the John Thain/Merrill Lynch/Bank of America fiasco story today. Thain fired back at B of A yesterday,... More

Bloomberg Picks Apart Madoff “Enablers”

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 27, 2009 at 08:57 AM

Bloomberg comes down hard on Madoff's so-called feeder funds, which it correctly labels "enablers" in its headline. If the 70-year-old... More

Thain Again

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 26, 2009 at 02:27 PM

So now it's John Thain's turn to wave the knife. The Financial Times leads its page one this morning with... More

Times on the Move Toward Nationalization

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 26, 2009 at 10:02 AM

The nationalization argument keeps picking up steam, and it keeps making sense—at least compared the other harebrained schemes that have... More

Journal with More on TARP

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 26, 2009 at 08:41 AM

The Journal this morning has some good reporting on the failure of TARP to stimulate lending, its second very good... More

The Buddy Can You Spare a Dime Index

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 23, 2009 at 12:53 PM

Reuters, via Atrios: Nasdaq OMX Group (NDAQ.O) said on Friday it will launch options trading on its three-week old Government... More

Say ‘Hey’ to WSJ on Pay

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 23, 2009 at 11:50 AM

Credit The Wall Street Journal for some good number-crunching and analysis today on a hidden facet of executive pay, which—guess... More

Thain the Vain

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 23, 2009 at 09:26 AM

And so now we have our Dennis Kozlowski, our Leona Helmsley of the current crisis. Thanks to Charlie Gasparino of... More

Audit Interview: Alan D. Mutter

“We have an enormous number of reporters today, especially at newspapers, who are reporting on the obvious.”

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 23, 2009 at 08:36 AM

Alan D. Mutter is a veteran of the ink-stained days who in the two decades since he left as No.... More

WSJ Peeks Under the TARP

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 22, 2009 at 11:29 AM

The Journal has some excellent reporting today on TARP and how political influence is playing out in who gets money.... More

Good Scoop by the FT

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 22, 2009 at 10:25 AM

Merrill Lynch paid out about $4 billion in bonuses just days before Bank of America took it over, the Financial... More

Solid Post Reporting on Regulation

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 22, 2009 at 08:37 AM

The Washington Post has a very good story this morning on bank regulation. It found that at least thirty banks... More

Roubini: Banks Are Insolvent

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 21, 2009 at 01:09 PM

You know things are bad when an assertion like this doesn't seem that surprising at first glance: U.S. financial losses... More

Obama “Prepared” to Take on the Banks Mess?

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 21, 2009 at 10:52 AM

The most pressing question for the new administration is what to do about the banks, which are again threatening to... More

FT on Newspaper Ownership

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 21, 2009 at 08:42 AM

The FT has a confused story this morning on the newspaper industry. Its headline says "Newspapers turn into rich mens’... More

Time Counts the Bush Economic Errors

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 20, 2009 at 09:54 AM

Justin Fox at Time hits the right notes in a piece on “Bush's Economic Mistakes”. Fox lists eight big ones,... More

Nationalize the Banks or Just the Losses?

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 20, 2009 at 08:21 AM

Paul Krugman's column yesterday deserves not to get lost in the holiday/inauguration shuffle He fires back at the “bad bank”... More

The Press and Steve Jobs

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 16, 2009 at 09:25 AM

The controversy over Apple CEO Steve Jobs' health is all over the press, and with it, questions about how the... More

Fortune Looks at Possible Prosecutions

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 15, 2009 at 10:16 AM

Fortune's cover story this week looks at something I've been wondering about for, oh, a year or so now: Who's... More

Obama’s SEC Pick Under the WSJ Microscope

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 15, 2009 at 08:49 AM

The Journal is excellent today covering Mary Schapiro, Obama's pick to head the SEC. The pick never engendered much enthusiasm,... More