WSJ Story Shows Repo 105 Was Just the Beginning

An excellent investigation uncovers Wall Street hiding its true debt levels

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 9, 2010 at 10:27 AM

This is what you call a great piece of enterprise reporting. The Wall Street Journal this morning has a major... More

Audit Notes: FHLB Bomb, Subprime Fraud, Gannett Is Cheap

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 8, 2010 at 06:16 PM

Bloomberg's Jon Weil has the Lede of the Day, writing about a "trillion-dollar time bomb": The Federal Home Loan Banks... More

Fortune FAIL: One-Source Story on Credit-Card Reform

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 8, 2010 at 02:31 PM

Ah, the one-source story. Nasty habit of Bloomberg and the Financial Times—and now Fortune. The magazine interviews Wall Street analyst... More

Audit Notes: Waxman Whacks Wolff, Salon Whacks Wolff, Brooks Just Wack

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 7, 2010 at 08:43 PM

Finally, somebody gets up the nerve to slap a cease-and-desist on Michael Wolff's parasitic Newser. Sharon Waxman and he have... More

Jamie Dimon and JP Morgan on the Dole

How the bank puts politicians and taxpayers over a barrel

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 7, 2010 at 01:05 PM

The Wall Street Journal's front-page story on Jamie Dimon's efforts to prevent regulatory reform sent me off on a tangent... More

Compensation Complaints

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 6, 2010 at 10:28 AM

The Wall Street Journal reports that Wall Street pay hit a record (asterisk attached) last year at $140 billion. That's... More

Backwards Steps by the WSJ and NYT on iPad

The papers cripple everyday Web features in their apps for a walled-in environment

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 5, 2010 at 04:11 PM

I compared the design and content of the Times and Wall Street Journal on the iPad earlier. Now let's take... More

IPad Review: New York Times vs. Wall Street Journal

In a promising start, the Times looks a lot better, but the Journal is full-featured

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 5, 2010 at 01:55 PM

First of all, let me say that the iPad is indeed a Big Deal. All those journalism-future discussions you've had... More

Audit Notes: Fed Foe of Big Banks, Executive Pay, Credit Tricks

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 2, 2010 at 07:31 PM

The Huffington Post's Shahien Nasiripour interviews Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig, a fierce opponent of too big to fail,... More

Krugman’s Too Big to Fail Straw Man

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 2, 2010 at 05:34 PM

Paul Krugman has a poorly argued column today setting up straw men to argue his case for regulation. This is... More

SEC and You Shall Not Find

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 2, 2010 at 02:43 PM

What is the SEC good for? That's what Bloomberg's Jon Weil asks. Good question. Why did it take a court-appointed... More

(Almost) All-Ivy Audit Notes: The Corporation, Repo 105, Complexity Trap

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 1, 2010 at 05:47 PM

Justin Fox of the Harvard Business Review has the most interesting read of the day, an interview with historian Brian... More

Reuters’ Imaginary WSJ/NYT Price War

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 1, 2010 at 05:31 AM

Reuters gets a story on the upcoming Wall Street Journal/New York Times Battle for New York all wrong. And PaidContent... More

Google Is Not a Heroic Defender of Privacy

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 1, 2010 at 04:16 AM

The New York Times reports that a coalition, including companies like Google, is trying to push tougher privacy laws for... More

Audit Notes: NYTPad, Perp Walks, Warren’s War

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 1, 2010 at 01:28 AM

What will a newspaper look like on the iPad? Here's a blurry sneak peek of screenshots of The New York... More

Bloomberg on the CDO Shuffle That Helped Break AIG

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 31, 2010 at 10:52 PM

Bloomberg dropped a major investigation today on the AIG collapse, shedding much-needed light on the conflicted role of CDO managers... More

Big Hole in an NYT Story on Oil Prices

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 31, 2010 at 05:25 PM

The New York Times writes that oil prices have been remarkably stable over the last year, settling into what it... More

A Tribune Lecture on Indebtedness

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 31, 2010 at 11:25 AM

The Chicago Tribune scolds the government for taking on too much debt. And the paper knows whereof it speaks. Boy... More

Demolishing the Banks’ Anti-Consumer Spin

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 30, 2010 at 06:37 PM

The banking industry has helped water down consumer financial protection by arguing that consumer protection is a job best done... More

Was the Citi Bailout Really a Good Deal?

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 30, 2010 at 11:29 AM

Dean Baker pointed out a myopic Washington Post story on Saturday reporting that the Treasury will make a several-billion-dollar profit... More