A Scalpel We Can Believe In

Obama’s antitrust regime and the proposed Comcast/NBC merger

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 27, 2010 at 06:32 PM

If you want to poke another hole in the idea that the Obama administration is "anti-business" take a look at... More

A Critical Witness in the Wall Street Sausage Factory

Banks used Clayton’s quality-assurance info to make more money, investors be damned

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 27, 2010 at 11:52 AM

Chalk this one up to things I'm not smart enough to understand: Why isn't this pure-D fraud and why hasn't... More

Audit Notes: Free Trade Fallout, China’s Peg, Bailout Failure

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 24, 2010 at 06:49 PM

The Financial Times's Washington bureau chief Edward Luce—who if you ask me, is one of the sharpest Washington observers around... More

D’Souza Again; This Time in the Chronicle

Why is the mainstream press giving this guy such a prominent platform?

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 24, 2010 at 04:15 PM

Dinesh D'Souza is at it again. This time he's taken his the-president-is-evil book-touting act on the road—to San Francisco, of... More

Reporting the Economy in Orange County

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 24, 2010 at 09:53 AM

Take a look at some of the things the Orange County Register is doing with its economic reporting. Here's a... More

Audit Notes: Forbes Dissent, MBS Fight, Incestuous CDOs

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 23, 2010 at 07:49 PM

I ripped Forbes last week for putting Dinesh D'Souza's pile of awfulness on the front page of its magazine (and... More

Goldman Loves This WSJ Headline

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 23, 2010 at 12:55 PM

Felix Salmon is all over The Wall Street Journal this morning for splashing this story across four columns atop page... More

The FT Goes Yachting. Meanwhile…

Rolling in the luxury ads for those special sections.

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 22, 2010 at 07:40 PM

There is no denying that 2009 was an annus horribilis for the yacht industry, or that the first half of... More

Arrington and the Journal on Venture Capital

WSJ reports investors say prices are frothy. TechCrunch reports a VC cabal colluding to fix that.

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 22, 2010 at 03:33 PM

The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that venture-capital investors are bidding up the values of Internet startups to... More

The Observer on the Roots of Wall Street’s Obama Rage

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 22, 2010 at 12:51 PM

Max Abelson has a fun story in The New York Observer on the roots of Obama rage on Wall Street.... More

Audit Notes: WSJ Editorial Misleads, That Flack, Respawning

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 21, 2010 at 06:11 PM

The Wall Street Journal editorial page—surprise, surprise!—posts a misleading piece on the anemic recovery (emphasis mine): White House economists and... More

WSJ Misses on Stimulus Red Tape

The spending was supposed to be phased in all along. The real question is why.

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 21, 2010 at 01:32 PM

The Wall Street Journal's A1 story today on how bureacratic red tape has slowed the stimulus has a pretty big... More

Audit Notes: That’s Rich, Krugman; Munger; Dancing Around Income Inequality

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 20, 2010 at 07:19 PM

Instaputz points out some real lack of self-awareness in Paul Krugman's column today attacking the rage of the rich: You... More

Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Slim Bloom Profile

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 20, 2010 at 06:29 PM

I'm a fan of the new BusinessWeek, which was already the best of the three major financial magazines—though that's not... More

The Recession May Be Over, But the Jobs Crisis Isn’t

The Times and Journal with good angles on unemployment

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 20, 2010 at 12:45 PM

There's some good reporting on the nation's unemployment crisis on A1 of the major papers today. We always like to... More

Audit Notes: Forbes Compares Obama to Lenin, Racist BS, Some Sanity

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 17, 2010 at 09:39 PM

How did that kooky, insidious, false Dinesh D'Souza piece end up on the cover of Forbes? Take a look at... More

Public Service Journalism at Its Very Best

A Seattle Times investigation uncovers profiteering and abuse in Washington’s elder-care system

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 17, 2010 at 04:50 PM

Up here in Seattle, we've been blessed with some incredible newspaper reporting this week. The kind that makes you glad... More

The WSJ Is Good on Middle-Class Incomes

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 17, 2010 at 10:54 AM

I got on The Wall Street Journal the other day for, among other things, ignoring income stagnation and inequality in... More

Audit Notes: Marketplace Filleted, Window Dressing, Scotland Yard

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 16, 2010 at 07:31 PM

Jay Rosen just takes the fillet knife to public radio's "Marketplace Morning Report." The problem with this report is that... More

Dinesh D’Souza Digs Himself in Deeper

Some more criticism of Forbes’s disastrous Obama cover story

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 16, 2010 at 01:48 PM

Dinesh D'Souza has responded to my, uh, criticism of his smear piece that, shamefully, made the cover of Forbes with... More