More on Madoff from the Times

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 18, 2008 at 09:49 AM

The Times adds some good reporting about Madoff, too. First of all, it says that he's not going to the... More

Journal on Top with Madoff/SEC Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 18, 2008 at 08:39 AM

The Journal is besting its rivals on the Madoff story. Today it has a super page-one story that reveals that... More

WSJ Looks Into the Woes at Calpers

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 17, 2008 at 02:23 PM

The Journal has a good story looking at the troubles at Calpers, the California state-pension system that's one of the... More

Bloomberg Stays on AIG

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 17, 2008 at 10:09 AM

Bloomberg reports that more questions are being raised about AIG's books. It says it may cost the insurer another $30... More

The Bright Side of Deflation, Part Two

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 17, 2008 at 09:10 AM

David Leonhardt of The New York Times also writes about falling prices today: The cost of fruits, vegetables, clothing and... More

The Bright Side of Deflation

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 17, 2008 at 08:33 AM

David Lazarus has a nice column about wage stagnation in the Los Angeles Times, using the peg of falling prices... More

A CDO Story for the Rest of Us

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 16, 2008 at 11:00 AM

The Washington Post goes long with a look at how the CDO market went bust. I know, I know. You... More

WaPo’s Wrong Spin on Retail

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 16, 2008 at 09:39 AM

Here's an example of how not to write an economy story. The Washington Post this weekend reported on retail sales... More

GM Pencils, Part Two

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 16, 2008 at 08:37 AM

A reader, David Baggot, emailed me to point out that the Times story I liked yesterday about Detroit's extreme cost... More

Detroit Now Reduced to Using Regular Pencils

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 15, 2008 at 10:50 AM

The Times has some amusing-if-pathetic details in its story on how the Big Three are cutting back to the bare... More

MediaNews’ Busted Newspaper Bets

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 15, 2008 at 09:50 AM

The Times has a nice story on Dean Singleton's MediaNews and the problems it's facing in this atrocious time for... More

Bloomberg on Madoff’s Auditor

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 15, 2008 at 09:08 AM

Bloomberg does some basic legwork on the Bernard Madoff scandal and gets some great color out of it. One of... More

WaPo: Bailout’s Pay Limits May Be Moot

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 15, 2008 at 08:34 AM

The Washington Post has a nice scoop today that the executive-pay provisions of the bailout law are basically unenforceable. But... More

WSJ: Tax-Lite Companies Want Tax-Heavy Bailouts

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 12, 2008 at 10:43 AM

The Journal does some good work in looking at some of the pigs lined up at the $700 billion TARP... More

Fed Slaps Down Bloomberg FOIA

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 12, 2008 at 09:25 AM

Bloomberg keeps the heat on the Federal Reserve to disclose to whom it's given $2 trillion in loans. The news... More

Audit Interview: Michael Hudson

“We’re in a battle now to define what happened.”

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 12, 2008 at 09:12 AM

Lots of people have asked why the press didn't tell us loudly enough that the subprime train was a-comin'. But... More

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