Bloomberg Gets a Scoop on a Too Big to Fail Tax

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 15, 2009 at 04:07 PM

Bloomberg reports today that the Obama administration—or at least parts of it—are planning to levy fees on giant financial institutions... More

The Times on the Real Unemployment Crisis

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 15, 2009 at 09:44 AM

The New York Times David Leonhardt this morning shines a spotlight on the real conditions in the labor markets—ones that... More

Audit Interview: James L. Bothwell

The author of a definitive ‘94 GAO derivatives report talks about industry pushback and financial-press complacency

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 14, 2009 at 12:54 PM

A few months back, The Audit's Elinore Longobardi took a a long look at how the press failed in its... More

Time Gets the Stimulus Wrong

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 14, 2009 at 11:59 AM

I wrote yesterday that The Wall Street Journal had been too accommodating of White House spin on stimulus spending. Today,... More

Obama Spins New Stimulus Spending Line into the WSJ

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 13, 2009 at 01:53 PM

The Journal this morning regurgitates some abject spin from the White House on the economy. It's clearly part of a... More

Journal: Option ARMs Doing Worse than Subprime

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 13, 2009 at 09:35 AM

The Journal has an interesting little news story this morning on option adjustable-rate mortgages, reporting that these time bombs now... More

Bloomberg’s Weil Asks the Right Questions on Goldman

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 10, 2009 at 04:50 PM

Jonathan Weil zeroes in on the incredible statement by the prosecutor in the Goldman Sachs code-theft case that if Goldman's... More

Slate Takes on the Prosperity Gospel Peddlers

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 10, 2009 at 02:43 PM

Slate is good to take a fresh look, in the second year of the financial crisis, at the "Prosperity Gospel,"... More

NYT’s Norris Lets Beazer and Justice Have It

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 10, 2009 at 09:43 AM

Floyd Norris has a tough column this morning on Beazer Homes and the government letting it off the hook for... More

CNBC’s Santelli and the $1,300 YOU Can Get Rich Trading! Seminar

Probably not a good idea

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 9, 2009 at 03:30 PM

I had to do a double-take when I saw CNBC's Rick Santelli on a Web site hawking a $1,300 "how... More

USA Today Hits the Overdraft Racket Hard

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 9, 2009 at 03:03 PM

USA Today has a superb story this morning that latches onto the overdraft-charges story and takes it into new territory.... More

Guardian’s Big Scoop on Scandal at News Corp. Tab

The story raises serious questions for the CEO of WSJ parent Dow Jones

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 8, 2009 at 08:56 PM

The Guardian unloaded a big-time scoop today that News Corp. paid more than $1.6 million to settle phone-hacking cases by... More

Reuters: Bureaucrats Fighting Consumer Agency to Protect Turf

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 8, 2009 at 03:29 PM

Getting a Consumer Financial Protection Agency passed is going to be hard enough, given how the still-extremely-powerful banking industry has... More

The LA Times’s Incomplete Swipe at Credit Cards

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 8, 2009 at 09:54 AM

The LA Times columnist David Lazarus reports this morning that credit-card companies are doing an "end run" around impending regulation... More

A Code Theft at Goldman Is a Tantalizing Story

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 7, 2009 at 03:46 PM

Reuters' Matthew Goldstein broke a fascinating story on Sunday, reporting that a Goldman Sachs computer programmer stole at least part... More

The WSJ Gives Its Well-Off Readers a Glimpse of Poverty

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 7, 2009 at 10:43 AM

It may seem obvious, but not everybody gets that increasing government safety nets during a downturn pumps money directly into... More

The FT Finds Wall Street Up to Its Old Tricks

And dog bites man, but it’s still important news

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 6, 2009 at 07:41 PM

The Financial Times led its front page with a major story today on the return of those dread words "financial... More

The AP Is Too Optimistic on Obama’s Too Big To Fail Plans

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 6, 2009 at 02:03 PM

The Associated Press looks at Obama's regulatory-reform plan and finds reason for hope on its approach to tackling Too Big... More

Miami Herald Finds Florida Fudged for Stanford

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 6, 2009 at 09:44 AM

The Miami Herald has a great investigation on the Allen Stanford scandal, reporting that a Florida regulator allowed the conman... More

Amplifying the Drumbeat on the “Overdraft Protection” Racket

The issue picks up momentum in the financial press

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 2, 2009 at 05:48 PM

It's The New York Times turn to do a nice story on "overdraft protection" practices. The Journal had one yesterday... More