Was Countrywide’s “Puffery” Criminal?

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 12, 2008 at 08:29 AM

Floyd Norris in the NYT points out something worth watching: a lawsuit against Countrywide Financial that's been allowed to go... More

NYT Lets Treasury Off Too Easy

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 11, 2008 at 10:05 AM

The Times lets Neel Kashkari, the Treasury's bailout guy, off the hook in a news story on congressional hearings yesterday.... More

Portfolio Pries Into Pequot

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 11, 2008 at 09:37 AM

Portfolio's Scot Paltrow has a very interesting story on some doings between Pequot Capital and one of the firm's former... More

The Times Looks at Bush’s Homeowner Advocate

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 11, 2008 at 08:33 AM

The New York Times takes a nuanced look at FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair this morning. She's the Bush administration member... More

$73 an Hour Doesn’t Add Up

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 10, 2008 at 10:22 AM

I like David Leonhardt's column this morning in the Times, debunking the $73 figure widely thrown around as what the... More

Journal’s Legg Mason “Get”

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 10, 2008 at 09:37 AM

The Journal scores an interview with Legg Mason's Bill Miller, a legendary investor who's run into a brick wall in... More

Bloomberg Hits the Washington Consensus

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 10, 2008 at 08:31 AM

Bloomberg has an excellent story this morning about how the free-trade policies foisted upon poor countries by rich ones have... More

The Journal Gets a Scalp

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 9, 2008 at 08:52 AM

A day after the Journal went page one with a story about Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain begging the board... More

Tribune Aftermath

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 9, 2008 at 08:32 AM

The NYT's Andrew Ross Sorkin has an excellent column today on Tribune. He slams a list of players, including the... More

Cookie-Company Crisis Makes WSJ and NYT

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 8, 2008 at 12:20 PM

Jeffrey D. Austen lost his job making cookies in Ohio. Some ambitious PR firm needs to hire him, stat. It... More

Journal Pushing Free Trade on Its News Pages

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 8, 2008 at 11:13 AM

This Journal headline is irritating: Hard Times Offer a Chance To Overcome Protectionism Some of us fervently hope that the... More

The Ratings Scam

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 8, 2008 at 10:25 AM

Gretchen Morgenson in yesterday's Times keeps her eye on the ball with a look at one of the biggest scandals... More

Tribune on the Brink

The financial crisis has dealt a deadly blow to its chances

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 8, 2008 at 09:47 AM

The Journal scooped last night that Tribune Company may file for bankruptcy this week. The other papers follow suit (not... More

WSJ is Super on Reserve Primary Fund Story

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 8, 2008 at 08:33 AM

The Journal is excellent this morning with an in-depth report on the Reserve Primary Fund, the money-market fund that "broke... More

NYT’s Norris Tweaks Trump

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 5, 2008 at 01:05 PM

Floyd Norris has some good clean fun with Donald Trump and Deutsche Bank, whom Trump is suing in a brazen... More

Audit Interview: Jesse Eisinger

“We’re grappling with our own failures about how, by and large, we missed this”

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 5, 2008 at 11:36 AM

Before joining Conde Nast Portfolio, Jesse Eisinger had already compiled a record of skeptical reporting on and analysis of Wall... More

Rupert: Get Me That Bush House Story!

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 5, 2008 at 10:05 AM

In the annals of stories The Wall Street Journal would not have done, much less placed on A3, pre-Rupert Murdoch,... More

Questions for the WSJ on B of A

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 5, 2008 at 09:10 AM

The Journal has some amusing tidbits in its story on the Bank of America shareholder vote scheduled for today on... More

Buck-Breaking and Lawsuit-Shaking

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 5, 2008 at 08:30 AM

The Times has a worthy story this morning looking at a bizarre move by the Reserve Primary Fund to protect... More

Deflation? Try Some Legal Price Fixing

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 4, 2008 at 10:42 AM

The Journal has an interesting story on retailers hiring "police" to ferret out discounters selling their products below the "minimum... More