Incurred on the Street: Windfall Tax on Bankers?

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 20, 2009 at 02:42 PM

I've been wondering when the taxation solution would pop up in the financial press regarding the record bonuses Wall Street... More

The Post Gets Perky on Bailout-Bank Pay

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 20, 2009 at 09:57 AM

The Washington Post spotlights this morning a somewhat-overlooked (this year, anyway) compensation aspect of our corporate-welfare kingpins: perks. These are... More

Monday Links: Foreclosure Homeless, NYT Cuts, Fed Up?

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 19, 2009 at 07:20 PM

— The New York Times profiles a one-time homeless-shelter operator who now lives in one. It says the number of... More

The New Compact for Workers: No Compact at All

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 19, 2009 at 04:40 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a good page-one look at big-picture changes in the workforce—ones that have been going on... More

WSJ: Plastic Fees Under the Microscope

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 19, 2009 at 10:27 AM

The Wall Street Journal keeps the spotlight on banking industry rent-seeking, looking at the increased pressure it finds itself under... More

Friday Links: EPA Enforcers, Chamber, Foreclosures Soar

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 16, 2009 at 06:45 PM

The New York Times's investigative series on polluted water continued to get results. The EPA says it will overhaul its... More

Greenspan Joins the Too-Big-to-Fail Fight

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 16, 2009 at 05:19 PM

Alan Greenspan has had his legacy forever tarnished by the financial crisis, the conditions for which it's almost unanimously agreed... More

LA Times on the Upside of the Falling Dollar

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 16, 2009 at 12:49 PM

I like this Los Angeles Times story this morning reporting why the falling dollar might be good for the country—something... More

Reporting the CFPA Legislation

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 16, 2009 at 10:17 AM

The New York Times leads its coverage of the financial-reform legislation with the news that the House Financial Services Committee... More

Thursday Links: Dow 7,714, Student Loan Bailout, Lobbyists

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 15, 2009 at 07:42 PM

David Weidner has a good take on Dow 10,000 (Part XXVI), emphasizing it represents a "lost decade of stock investing."... More

Nieman, Galbraith on the Power Problem

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 15, 2009 at 04:51 PM

Nieman Watchdog asks "Where's the reporting on the fraud that led to the crash?" Funny, The Audit, and especially Audit... More

Most of the Press Misses Fed Overdraft News

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 15, 2009 at 10:05 AM

The Wall Street Journal and USA Today have one of the biggest news stories of the day: The Federal Reserve... More

Wednesday Links: Crooked Heart, No Smell, Paying for News

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 14, 2009 at 06:57 PM

Joe Nocera, fresh off slamming banks on Saturday, makes fools of them today on their line that they didn't cause... More

Geithner’s Aides and Wall Street Pay

A Bloomberg story adds perspective to a WSJ report on record banker bonuses

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 14, 2009 at 04:05 PM

I want to applaud some solid enterprise work at Bloomberg and the Journal and see if we can play one... More

BusinessWeek to Grow—Really!

All but left for dead two months ago, the weekly will expand its pages

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 14, 2009 at 01:21 PM

Fortune and Forbes better look out. BusinessWeek, just a couple of months ago given decent odds to disappear from the... More

WSJ on Eminent Domain in Brooklyn

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 14, 2009 at 10:24 AM

It's almost never a bad idea to do an eminent-domain story, especially the Kelo-type ones that pit the government in... More

Tuesday Links: Scrubbed Dirty, Game Theory, Taxes

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2009 at 07:10 PM

Charles Duhigg's investigation of the state of the nation's water continues today with an excellent piece on page one of... More

BizWeek Emblematic of the Fall of Print

From $1 billion to less than $5 million in nine years

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2009 at 06:37 PM

The big business-media news this week will be BusinessWeek's sale to Bloomberg for $2 million to $5 million plus the... More

NYT’s Sorkin Is Confused on Goldman Bonuses

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2009 at 04:27 PM

Clueless paragraph of the day: But we can’t have it both ways, either. At one moment, many in the nation... More

Stimulate This!

Slate’s Gross debunks stimulus nonsense

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2009 at 01:55 PM

Like Daniel Gross, I get the impression that people, including many journalists, just can't get their heads around the stimulus.... More