Good WSJ Story on the Wall Street-Subprime Nexus

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 9, 2009 at 10:20 AM

The Wall Street Journal has a good scoop on a story showing the connection of Wall Street to the shadier... More

Friday Links: A Contrite Banker, Pay to Play, Gutting SOX

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 6, 2009 at 08:06 PM

Bloomberg finds a contrite banker, John Reed the former CEO of Citigroup who merged it with Sandy Weill's Travelers in... More

Dow Jones on the Paper-It-Over Economy

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 6, 2009 at 03:22 PM

Dow Jones Newswires breaks an excellent story on Wells Fargo's efforts to delay its day of reckoning on billions and... More

WSJ Spotlight Helps Get Results on Antitrust

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 6, 2009 at 10:45 AM

The Wall Street Journal follows up this morning on its report on CVS Caremark's business practices six months ago. The... More

Thursday Links: Goldie’s Gall, Chait Check, FSA

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 5, 2009 at 06:33 PM

The Wall Street Journal reported a couple of days ago that Goldman Sachs (an Audit funder) is trying to buy... More

Bloomberg Examines the Bank Lobby’s Armor

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 5, 2009 at 10:25 AM

Bloomberg spotlights the Consumer Financial Protection Act and uses it as a jumping-off point for a smart story on the... More

Wednesday Links: Ad Comps, Recovery Engine, Coming Crash

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 4, 2009 at 06:50 PM

The Wall Street Journal's Nat Worden makes the obvious point—one missed by some, including, apparently, lots of investors—that any potential... More

McClatchy: Goldman Laid Down with Dogs

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 4, 2009 at 02:10 PM

Dean Starkman has been applauding McClatchy's series on Goldman Sachs (an Audit funder) for a couple of days now. Add... More

Bloomberg: Moneychangers in the Temples

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 4, 2009 at 12:19 PM

Bloomberg notices that three prominent bankers in recent weeks have taken to UK churches to make the case that they're... More

Friday Links: Pearlstein’s Fairy Tale, WSJ’s Results, Galleon

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 30, 2009 at 02:57 PM

Steven Pearlstein has an excellent column in the Washington Post today explaining the problem with Wall Street compensation policies for... More

On a Diet on the Second Front

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 30, 2009 at 02:22 PM

Here's a good example of the Murdoch-era Wall Street Journal short-arming a potentially interesting story. The paper reports on B1... More

An Excellent NYT Column on Financialization

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 30, 2009 at 10:26 AM

Every writer knows the feeling of reading something you wish you'd written yourself. That's what I got with Floyd Norris's... More

Newspapers Get the Slate Treatment

Yes, the industry is doing that badly

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 29, 2009 at 04:24 PM

Slate got extra contrary last night, talking up the newspaper biz in a piece headlined "Newspapers aren't doing as badly... More

The Colour of Galleon’s Money

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 29, 2009 at 10:24 AM

Here's one of those strange stories that could be one that blows a story wide open or one that blows... More

Wednesday Links: Cable Bluster, Night School, Footnotes First

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 28, 2009 at 06:17 PM

What was CNN doing having sports journalist Stephen A. Smith on to debate Times business wunderkind Andrew Ross Sorkin on... More

Hard Truths on Social Security from Leonhardt

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 28, 2009 at 04:35 PM

The New York Times's David Leonhardt has a smart column this morning on the administration's skewed spending priorities. By spelling... More

Rhetoric and Reality on Pay

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 28, 2009 at 10:08 AM

The Wall Street Journal has a nice analysis on pay czar Kenneth Feinberg's plan to restrict compensation at seven corporate-welfare... More

Tuesday Links: Circulation, Mouthpieces, Galleon

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 27, 2009 at 07:17 PM

One of the critical questions for what remains of the newspaper industry's near-to-medium-term future is how much of the recent... More

Seattle Times Reviews WaMu, Hometown Predator

An excellent postmortem details a corrupted culture

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 27, 2009 at 04:42 PM

Hats off to The Seattle Times for an excellent two-part series investigating the demise of Washington Mutual, onetime hometown hero... More

Bloomberg on AIG as Banks’ Backdoor Bailout

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 27, 2009 at 10:05 AM

Bloomberg has an important story today on the bailout of the banks through AIG. Estimating that an essentially bankrupt company... More