The Debt Privilege

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 17, 2009 at 05:22 PM

We all know too much debt is at the root of the economic crisis. And we've seen lots of step-back... More

Misplaying the SIGTARP Report

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 17, 2009 at 01:32 PM

Did the Federal Reserve have any leverage in its negotiations with AIG counterparties, the ones it paid one hundred cents... More

The Backdoor-Bailout Report Coverage

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 17, 2009 at 10:27 AM

Here's a win for the press, namely The New York Times and Bloomberg. The government, or one of its internal... More

Monday Links: New Bubble; Raters; Government Support

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 16, 2009 at 05:30 PM

Steven Pearlstein says the Federal Reserve still hasn't learned its lesson about credit bubbles. Pearlstein adds to the growing chorus... More

Bloomberg: Bankers Doubling Down in Vegas

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 16, 2009 at 01:56 PM

Bloomberg has an interesting real estate story showing how banks are getting entangled in the wreckage of their loans. Deutsche... More

Survey: Half of U.S. Would Pay (a Pittance) for Online News

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 16, 2009 at 06:12 AM

The New York Times reports on a new survey that says half of Americans would pay for news online if... More

Friday Links: Conspiracy Check, Weak TBTF Defenses, The Road

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 13, 2009 at 05:03 PM

Gary Weiss at The Big Money takes a good look at five conspiracy theories about Wall Street and ranks their... More

Missing the Big Pfizer Kelo Story

The NYT is first out of the gate nationally four days after the news broke.*

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 13, 2009 at 04:02 PM

(UPDATE: Ted Mann of The Day points out that he wrote a news story before the Times on the Kelo... More

A Perfect Bit of Uncountered PR Nonsense on Overdrafts

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 13, 2009 at 10:37 AM

The Federal Reserve is effectively banning the "overdraft protection" racket on debt cards by forcing banks to make customers opt-in... More

Thursday Links: 10,000 Applications, Glass Steagall Day, TARP

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 12, 2009 at 07:56 PM

The Washington Post reports on the jobless "recovery," a term it's still too early to use for the economy given... More

NYT Examines the Impact of the Crisis on Kids

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 12, 2009 at 01:47 PM

A few weeks ago I praised a Sesame Street special, of all things, for putting a human face on the... More

WSJ Tinkers With a Perfectly Good Story

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting front-page story on tinkerers this morning, but the paper undermines it with a... More

Wednesday Links: Wages, Pre-rolling in It, State Capitalism, Po’ Boys

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 11, 2009 at 08:57 PM

Breakingviews would like you to know, in its coldly calculating way, that Americans earn too much relative to the rest... More

A Snapshot of a Journalist at Work on Bear Stearns

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 11, 2009 at 02:16 PM

With Bear Stearns' Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin in the news, Janet Tavakoli passes along an excerpt from her new... More

Some Misses on the Bear Stearns Acquittals

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 11, 2009 at 11:30 AM

The only Wall Street executives to be charged in the crisis walked away from a Brooklyn courthouse free men after... More

Tuesday Links: One-Source FT, Soaring APRs, Severance

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 10, 2009 at 10:26 PM

The Financial Times runs one of those no-context, let's-quote-one-source-with-obvious-bias stories it likes to do, this one on global food corporations... More

Loyal Readers and Junk Traffic

The bottom 75 percent of newspaper Web visitors provide just 14 percent of page views

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 10, 2009 at 01:29 PM

(See the first part of this post) What the Journal does have that nobody else does is more than a... More

What’s Murdoch Up to with Google and WSJ.com?

Google traffic is worth far less than $15 per user per month

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 10, 2009 at 12:29 PM

Everybody's all inflamed about Rupert Murdoch bumbling through part of an interview on News Corp.'s Internet strategy in which he... More

Monday Links: Bad Stats, TBTF, “Less with Less”

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 9, 2009 at 10:54 PM

The New York Times reports that "A widening gap between data and reality is distorting the government’s picture of the... More

LAT a Bit Wide of the Mark on Health Care

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 9, 2009 at 03:33 PM

The Los Angeles Times's David Lazarus beats back an accusation of using a red herring—and then goes on to push... More