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

Audit Notes: Unfair Size Advantage, Bumped Down, WSJ Win

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 29, 2010 at 06:09 PM

Reuters Breakingviews finds another unfair advantage for the too-big-to-fail banks: They're paying less interest for deposits than their smaller competitors—a... More

Getting Foxy with Sulzberger at the WSJ

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 29, 2010 at 09:37 AM

Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff reeled in a stunner this weekend from The Wall Street Journal: Well, on the front page... More

The WSJ’s Confusing Subscription Prices

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 29, 2010 at 09:12 AM

I wrote yesterday that The Wall Street Journal's iPad pricing doesn't make sense. The paper will charge $17.99 a month... More

Audit Notes: Predators on the Block, iPad Pushback, Reuters on Toyota

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 26, 2010 at 07:21 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a nice story about how slow-going it's been slimming down Citigroup. But what struck me... More

The Dead Go On the Record in The Wall Street Journal

The paper held Apple director’s newsmaking comments until after his death

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 26, 2010 at 05:39 PM

A Wall Street Journal story yesterday on the death of Apple director Jerome York quoted eye-opening remarks York made to... More

What About Private Equity?

The industry is getting off easy while it destroys companies and jobs

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 26, 2010 at 03:00 PM

This from The Wall Street Journal's Overheard on the Street is the stat of the day (okay, it ran yesterday):... More

Justice Says Wall Street Colluded to Gouge Cities and States

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 26, 2010 at 12:44 PM

Bloomberg scoops (and Dow Jones follows without crediting) that the Justice Department says JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and General... More

Audit Notes: Cramer Creamed, Elizabeth Warren, BofA Mods

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 25, 2010 at 08:45 PM

Reason No. 5 billion not to listen to Jim Cramer or other market snake-oil salesmen: Jim Cramer said on CNBC's... More

LA Times Sees an Oncoming Option ARM Wave

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 25, 2010 at 02:42 PM

The Los Angeles Times looks at the possible impending Option-ARM crisis, something we've asked for more coverage of for a... More

Newspaper Ads Tumbled to 1963 Levels Last Year

But iPad ads show an early glimmer of hope

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 25, 2010 at 09:24 AM

The New York Times reports that newspaper advertising tanked by more than 27 percent last year, shedding $10 billion from... More

Audit Notes: Tax Break, Lehman CEO, WSJ Sports

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 24, 2010 at 10:58 PM

The Journal is good to front a story on tax goodies for corporations, noting that JPMorgan Chase is about to... More

Too Big to Fail and Reform

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 24, 2010 at 06:14 PM

Simon Johnson of Baseline Scenario points to a tough amendment to the not-so-tough Dodd financial-reform bill (so not-so-tough, in fact,... More

The Long Short

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 24, 2010 at 11:01 AM

Bloomberg has an interesting tale about hedge-fund biggie Bill Ackman's "greatest short ever," in an excerpt of a forthcoming book... More

Audit Notes: Hapless SEC, Murdoch’s Mega-Losses, BofA Repo 105

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 23, 2010 at 08:05 PM

Just when you thought your opinion of the SEC couldn't get any lower, the Washington Post goes and looks at... More

Wall Street Stayed Put Despite Pay Fixes

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 23, 2010 at 09:25 AM

Wall Street is a slippery beast. Whenever it's faced with the prospect of regulatory circumscription, it threatens to take its... More

Audit Notes: Greenspan’s Gall, Presidentializing Markets, Megabanks

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 22, 2010 at 08:13 PM

Barry Ritholtz wrote an excellent post explaining to Alan Greenspan why, yes, his low-interest-rate policies were critical in the creation... More

Murdoch’s Unhealthy Obsession

Taking on The New York Times isn’t risk-free for the Journal

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 22, 2010 at 02:07 PM

Richard Pérez-Peña has several interesting bits in his piece on the soon-to-commence Battle for New York between his own New... More

Audit Notes: Better Cohan, Ernst Whopper, WSJ Walkback

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 19, 2010 at 07:00 PM

I was highly critical of a William D. Cohan piece in the Times two weeks ago pleading for mercy for... More