Covering the TARP Inspector’s Report

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 22, 2009 at 12:43 PM

CJR's Greg Marx notes that coverage of the report from TARP Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky was all over the... More

Weiss Takes on the Limits of Press Power

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 22, 2009 at 09:32 AM

Gary Weiss has an interesting post up at his Web site on the limited power of the press. Someone emailed... More

The $1 BusinessWeek Story

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 21, 2009 at 03:32 PM

We haven't weighed in on BusinessWeek since news emerged that McGraw-Hill is seeking to unload the magazine. But I read... More

NYT: Where’s Obama’s Manufacturing Plan?

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 21, 2009 at 08:48 AM

The New York Times is good this morning to point out that the Obama administration doesn't have a plan for... More

Getting the New Journal (Mostly) Right

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 20, 2009 at 03:43 PM

Mark Potts has a good post at his Recovering Journalist site on The Wall Street Journal under Murdoch. Which is... More

The WSJ Spotlights Working Class Woes

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 20, 2009 at 09:55 AM

The Wall Street Journal puts the woes of the working class front and center (on page one) today, using the... More

The Deal’s Audit Gotcha

Trade-mag editor falsely implies that we pull punches at CJR

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 18, 2009 at 05:19 PM

Anyone who's read half an Audit post would find it laughable to think that we bow down to Wall Street.... More

The Daily Show Gets Jim Cramer Again (and Bernie Goldberg)

But they’re not alone in their credulity on former baseball-star Lenny Dykstra

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 17, 2009 at 01:13 PM

If you haven't seen Jon Stewart's evisceration of former-baseball-star-turned-investment-guru-turned-bankrupt Lenny Dykstra, as well as some of his fawning admirers in... More

Ugly Numbers on Toxic-Asset Prices Signal More Trouble

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 16, 2009 at 04:26 PM

I've long called for more reporting on a critical question in the financial crisis: how much the toxic assets clogging... More

NYT’s Ben Stein Hawks Misleading Credit Score Site

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 16, 2009 at 01:47 PM

Felix Salmon is right: What's a New York Times business columnist doing in an ad for a company that uses... More

Fortune Looks at Automated Trading After a Code Theft

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 16, 2009 at 09:51 AM

It's been a week and a half since news broke of the computer-code theft at Goldman Sachs threw the automated-trading... More

Goldman Sachs to the Forefront

Rolling Stone, a computer-code theft, and boffo profits focus attention on the bank

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 15, 2009 at 07:12 PM

The Goldman Sachs story is just getting bigger, and I get the sense it may be AIG time for Goldie.... More

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