NYT Listens in as the Mortgage-Mod Plan Hits a Wall

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 29, 2009 at 09:43 AM

The New York Times descends into customer-service hell on A1 today, reporting on the effort to modify mortgages under the... More

A Community Reinvestment Act Reader

We still have to debunk this myth?

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 26, 2009 at 05:27 PM

Felix Salmon takes John Carney of Clusterstock to task for latching on to the right-wing effort to blame the housing... More

Bartiromo and BizWeek with an Embarrassing Summers Interview

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 26, 2009 at 12:31 PM

Maria Bartiromo's BusinessWeek interviews aren't exactly must-read business journalism. But this is ridiculous. What would you ask if you got... More

Journal States the Obvious—In a Good Way

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 26, 2009 at 09:37 AM

The Wall Street Journal looks at how the new consumer-protection regulator is likely to make banks less profitable. I like... More

What the WSJ Looked Like in 1930

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 25, 2009 at 06:44 PM

Here's a great idea for a business blog. An anonymous somebody is going back through Depression-era Wall Street Journals day... More

Bloomberg Profiles Volcker, Obama’s Outside Insider

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 25, 2009 at 03:07 PM

Bloomberg has a welcome, long profile of Paul Volcker, the legendary former Fed chairman who's been shouldered to the background... More

Fortune: Confidence in Banks Falling Again

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 25, 2009 at 09:44 AM

Don't look now but market sentiment on the banking industry is falling again. Fortune reports that the cost of insuring... More

Even the Going-Out-of-Business Business Is Suffering

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 24, 2009 at 05:51 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a great page-one “ahed” today about one rug merchant who's made a business of going... More

Bloomberg Buys the Discredited Realtor Lobby’s Spin

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 24, 2009 at 12:46 PM

You'd think that by now the media would be done with the National Association of Realtors, a discredited organization that... More

Citigroup Keeps on Truckin’ Like It’s 2007

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 24, 2009 at 09:40 AM

The New York Times and Financial Times both report that Citigroup is raising salaries by up to half to avoid... More

Footnoted Ferrets Out Legg Mason Foolishness

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 23, 2009 at 04:01 PM

The excellent business site Footnoted, run by Michelle Leder, makes a nice catch today on executive compensation. Leder's m.o. is... More

The Journal Overplays Its Harvard Scooplet

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 23, 2009 at 02:38 PM

I can't figure out why this Harvard endowment story is on page one of the Journal this morning. Two managers... More

LA Times Superb on Modern-Day Grapes of Wrath

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 23, 2009 at 09:53 AM

The Los Angeles Times has a standout story today—one of the best pieces I've read in a long, long time.... More

“Too Big to Fail” Gets Big Play in the NYT

Morgenson, Dash, and Krugman all consider the issue

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 22, 2009 at 07:48 PM

I was glad to see three pieces in the The New York Times or on its website this weekend about... More

John Gruber Analyzes Journal Sourcing on (Steve) Jobs

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 22, 2009 at 01:51 PM

John Gruber of Daring Fireball has a smart analysis of the journalism behind the Journal's big scoop this weekend that... More

WSJ: Hedge Fund Lobbying Soars

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 22, 2009 at 09:28 AM

The Journal this morning continues its good watchdog reporting on the lobbying efforts by the business-as-usual crowd. It looks at... More

Bloomberg, McClatchy Look at the Coming Option ARM Wipeout

“Green shoots” or no, the next couple of years look grim

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 19, 2009 at 05:48 PM

A few weeks ago, I wrote that the press had become a bit too sanguine about all of the "green... More

Visualizing the Bailouts

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 19, 2009 at 02:30 PM

You've got to see this. Barry Ritholtz of The Big Picture asked Jess Bachman of the excellent information-graphics site Wallstats... More

Starkman Profiles Morgenson

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 19, 2009 at 09:37 AM

Audit Chairman Dean Starkman has a big profile just out in The Nation of New York Times reporter and columnist... More

The Press Must Pay Extra Attention to Obama’s Fed Plan

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 18, 2009 at 06:26 PM

One of the most obvious storylines for the next few weeks of regulatory-reform discussion is the Federal Reserve. The Obama... More