Mark Pittman, Bloomberg’s Bulldog, Dies at 52

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 28, 2009 at 12:39 PM

We were stunned to learn a couple of days ago of top Bloomberg investigative reporter Mark Pittman's death. As I... More

Wednesday Links: Interchange, Make Believe, Overstock Junket

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 25, 2009 at 07:11 PM

The New York Times continues its series on plastic, looking at how capping interchange fees on credit cards has played... More

The Press Underplays the Bad-Banks News

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 25, 2009 at 03:35 PM

The major business press underplays news from the FDIC that its troubled-banks list soared to more than 550 in the... More

The Big Money: Shoppers Beware

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 25, 2009 at 01:36 PM

Heidi N. Moore makes some fine points in a piece over at The Big Money that riffs off Best Buy... More

WSJ Goes Easy on Private Equity in Oz

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 25, 2009 at 10:25 AM

Why does The Wall Street Journal think tax enforcement is "hostility"? That's what a news report on the front of... More

Tuesday Links: Sorkin, De-Indexing, the Google Problem

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 24, 2009 at 08:57 PM

Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism shreds Andrew Ross Sorkin's column on Congress finally stiffening its spine today. The headline betrays... More

FT’s Wolf: Windfall Tax Wall Street

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 24, 2009 at 04:37 PM

It's been somewhat baffling how little taxation has been discussed in the press as a possible answer to the problems... More

Murdoch, Microsoft, and Google

Getting paid for indexing news wouldn’t amount to much

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 24, 2009 at 05:01 AM

So Rupert Murdoch is indeed trying to squeeze the search engines for some cash, something we figured a couple of... More

BusinessWeek on Wall Street’s Nerve

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 23, 2009 at 04:29 PM

BusinessWeek's cover story this week on how Wall Street's shenanigans are threatening already-reeling local governments is a must-read. The lede... More

NYT’s Carr Finds Something New to Say about Oprah

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 23, 2009 at 09:46 AM

The New York Times's David Carr has a very smart column this morning analyzing Oprah Winfrey's massive, sustained business success.... More

Friday Links: Smart Money, Rodney King, Dilution

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 20, 2009 at 05:46 PM

Remember that $500 million program for small businesses Goldman Sachs announced along with its apology earlier this week? It was... More

Bloomberg Finds the Fed on Bubble Watch

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 20, 2009 at 05:31 PM

Bloomberg gets a nice scoop that the Federal Reserve is apparently worried about the new bubble it's inflating. Federal Reserve... More

WSJ Editorial Scrutinizes Geithner on AIG Counterparties

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 20, 2009 at 10:12 AM

I wrote twice on Tuesday about the bizarre Tim Geithner quote that "the financial condition of the counterparties was not... More

Thursday Links: Custard Ken, (More) Media Layoffs, Chainsaw Guy

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 19, 2009 at 07:44 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a very good page-one leder on Ken Griffin's giant hedge fund firm Citadel, which is... More

Prospect’s Take on Too Big to Fail

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 19, 2009 at 02:18 PM

The British magazine Prospect has one of the better explainers on too big to fail I've yet seen. It's a... More

A Good Bloomberg Profile of Elizabeth Warren

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 19, 2009 at 10:23 AM

Bloomberg this morning posts a really good profile of Elizabeth Warren, who, despite much of the press's dismissal of her... More

Wednesday Links: Philly’s Mod Policy, Fraud Force, WoW

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 18, 2009 at 08:03 PM

The New York Times looks at Philadelphia's way of dealing with the foreclosure crisis: Forcing homeowners and lenders face to... More

Tyrangiel Takes Over at BusinessWeek

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 18, 2009 at 02:27 PM

Bloomberg surprised just about everybody by picking Josh Tyrangiel of Time to helm the newly acquired (and newly gutted—it's sacking... More

WSJ Zeroes in on Goldman Collateral

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 18, 2009 at 10:19 AM

The Wall Street Journal fleshes out the Goldman Sachs backdoor bailout part of the Special Inspector General of the TARP's... More

Tuesday Links: Lowballing OSHA, Lowenstein, SIGTARP

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 17, 2009 at 06:48 PM

The New York Times reports that employers systematically under-report workplace injuries, citing a new GAO report. It says OSHA will... More