Advancing the AIG Story

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 27, 2010 at 02:08 PM

Today is AIG day and there's lots of interesting stuff out there in the press (not to mention Geithner live... More

Advertising for Apple

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 27, 2010 at 10:16 AM

AdAge points out that Apple's new tablet may not exactly part the sea for the press, but it will probably... More

Audit Notes: The Newsday 35, WSJ Sun, Davos

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 26, 2010 at 07:32 PM

The New York Observer's John Koblin has had a busy day. First he broke a story on Newsday's paywall, which... More

Revisiting the SIGTARP AIG Investigation

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 26, 2010 at 12:03 PM

The AIG backdoor-bailout story continues to build, with the TARP special inspector general now re-opening an investigation into the matter.... More

Audit Notes: Counterparties Relevant, Goldman/AIG, Beck on Stocks

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 26, 2010 at 12:32 AM

We've been asking this question for a few months now: Why did Tim Geithner tell the TARP special inspector general... More

Steve Jobs, Holy Moses

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 25, 2010 at 08:14 PM

Moses has been in the news a lot lately thanks to that more-modern oracle over at 1 Infinite Loop: Steve... More

The Press Angle of the Fed’s Backdoor-Bailout Cover-up

Geithner’s New York Fed responded to a FOIA by withholding more information

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 25, 2010 at 12:08 PM

Whatever Tim Geithner's New York Fed was trying to hide in the AIG backdoor bailout was so volatile it was... More

Blowing Up at the Murdoch Journal

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 22, 2010 at 04:44 PM

Barry Ritholtz rips The Wall Street Journal a new one today, saying that "Under Murdoch, the paper has become politicized... More

What Does Tim Geithner Really Think About the Volcker Rule?

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 22, 2010 at 11:26 AM

The New York Times, in a story about the sudden, somewhat shocking ascendance in the Obama orbit of the long-ignored... More

Obama (Finally) Gets Tough on Wall Street

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 21, 2010 at 09:56 AM

In stunning news this morning, President Obama has reversed course and will propose a kind of Glass-Steagall II, as well... More

Audit Notes: A Tax a Reaganite Can Love, Cramer, Mad Max

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 21, 2010 at 12:12 AM

David Stockman, who was in the Reagan cabinet as budget director, comes out swinging for a too-big-to-fail bank tax in... More

Bloomberg Punctures the Fed’s French Excuse

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 20, 2010 at 08:40 PM

Bloomberg advances the AIG/French-banks story today quite a little bit. That's the one where the Fed said it had to... More

The NYT Will Charge Online

That’s a good thing

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 20, 2010 at 11:01 AM

It's official. The New York Times says it will stop giving away its expensive-to-produce paper online and institute a metered... More

Audit Notes: FCIC’s Missing Media, What Crisis?, L’Affaire AIG

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 19, 2010 at 06:43 PM

What did we miss as press coverage of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission fizzled last week? On Friday, we pointed... More

Citi Not Quite As Awful As Last Year, Says Dow Jones

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 19, 2010 at 01:00 PM

Here's a strange Wall Street Journal headline (of a Dow Jones Newswires story): "Citi Loss Narrows." Yeah—to $7.6 billion. Is... More

The WSJ on Another Junk-Debt Boom

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 19, 2010 at 11:09 AM

The bubble is back. If you hadn't already figured that out, that's the lesson from The Wall Street Journal's excellent... More

Audit Notes: Ignoring State Regs, Busy Bhatia, Volcker Vacuum

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 15, 2010 at 06:38 PM

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission talked to state regulators—the only ones with credibility on the predatory-lending issue and you might... More

A WSJ Story Shows TBTF Effects on the Market

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 15, 2010 at 04:18 PM

The Wall Street Journal is excellent today to spotlight a sudden jump in ARM interest rates on New Year's Eve... More

Steven Pearlstein: Then and Now

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM

What a difference a year makes! Here's the Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein last February: These guys won’t be happy until... More

Audit Notes: Goldie’s AIG CDS, Smarter Readers, Adversarial Stance

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 14, 2010 at 07:46 PM

James Keller has an interesting post over at RealClearMarkets on the Goldman Sachs/AIG controversy, which he says is "Likely Worse... More