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

Journal: Wall Street Pay Could Set Records

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 2, 2009 at 09:36 AM

That didn't take long. The Journal reports this morning that Wall Street compensation is on track to possibly outdo 2007... More

WSJ Shows How Personal-Finance Pieces Ought to Be Done

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 1, 2009 at 05:21 PM

It's rare to read a genuinely good personal-finance story, so I was glad to see Karen Blumenthal's column in The... More

NYT: Banks Gearing Up to Kill New Consumer-Protection Agency

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 1, 2009 at 02:57 PM

Continuing the theme of the press focusing on the lobbying efforts of the financial industry to keep the status quo,... More

ProPublica, Post Watchdog Senator’s TARP Meddling

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 1, 2009 at 09:33 AM

ProPublica and the Washington Post are making a nice little team this week. On Monday they wrote about how General... More

NY Times Chugs the Dr Pepper

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 30, 2009 at 02:23 PM

How can The New York Times be this gullible? The paper writes about Dr Pepper Snapple outsourcing its information technology... More

LAT Raises the “Nexus” Sales-Tax Issue

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 30, 2009 at 09:57 AM

The LA Times has an interesting article today on an overlooked aspect of tax policy: The "nexus" exemption for Internet... More

ProPublica, the Post Bring GE Into the Light

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 29, 2009 at 05:28 PM

Props to ProPublica and the Washington Post for a joint story on how General Electric has benefited from $74 billion... More

LA Times Soft-Pedals Wired Editor’s Plagiarism

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 29, 2009 at 03:13 PM

It's bad enough to write a two-source story about plagiarism. It's worse when the two sources are the plagiarist and... More