The Protectionism Bogeyman

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 2, 2009 at 12:55 PM

There's a movement afoot in the financial press, especially in globalist publications like The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times,... More

Reports of the Malls’ Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 2, 2009 at 08:48 AM

The Times on Sunday tossed off a variation of that old journalism standby, "The Death of the Mall," going to... More

Seattle P-I: Feds Knew About Widespread Mortgage Fraud

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's days may be numbered, but it's still got some scrap. It put out a nice story the... More

“Populist” or Just the Truth?

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 30, 2009 at 09:09 AM

I have a nit to pick with the Times's lead story today about Obama calling Wall Street's $18.4 billion in... More

Don’t Blame Us!

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 30, 2009 at 08:32 AM

It's time for a quote of the day. This from a good Bloomberg story about Davos participants in denial about... More

How One Job Loss Cascades Through the Economy

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 29, 2009 at 04:37 PM

I love this story in the Journal's Currents section today. My former colleague Ben Casselman traces the economic impact of... More

Bloomberg Bird-dogs Transparency Issues

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 29, 2009 at 11:12 AM

We at The Audit continue to be impressed with Bloomberg News's aggressive accountability journalism. Its pursuit of transparency in the... More

Good Madoff Scoop from the Times and Il Sole 24 Ore

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 29, 2009 at 08:52 AM

A good Madoff scoop from the Times this morning is also interesting for how it came about: a collaboration with... More

Reporting the Stimulus Plan

Applaud the press for its coverage of the herky-jerky spending plans.

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 28, 2009 at 03:14 PM

Does the press have a lot on its hands these days, or what? I've lost count of how many trillions... More

Breaking: 4 Minute Wait for Decaf at Starbucks

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 28, 2009 at 11:15 AM

Talk about commodity news. We've gotten on the Journal before for its weird Starbucks obsession obsession, but today it goes... More

LAT Is Good on Foreclosures

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 28, 2009 at 08:34 AM

The LA Times is excellent today on the dismal state of housing in California, the ground zero—one of them, anyway—of... More

Inside a Layoff

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 27, 2009 at 01:40 PM

The Journal also has an excellent front-page "ahed" today—a first-hand, real-time look at the layoffs that are swamping the economy.... More

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