NYT on How Unions Are Learning From Occupy Wall Street

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 9, 2011 at 01:41 PM

The New York Times reports on how the American labor movement, whose membership and power have crumbled over the last... More

Pioneer Press On a Renting Crisis and the Almost-Homeless

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 28, 2011 at 08:06 PM

The St. Paul Pioneer Press does a good job looking at how a serious lack of affordable housing and the... More

WSJ Gives Minimum Info on Front Group

An astroturf group gets a hit on the minimum wage

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 2, 2011 at 11:49 AM

Here's how The Wall Street Journal framed its report yesterday on several states raising the minimum wage next year: Small... More

A Times Snapshot of the Gilded Age Economy

The very rich do very well while the rest of the country suffers

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 1, 2011 at 02:16 PM

The New York Times's business coverage today is good and depressing—a portrait of our Second Gilded Age. On page one,... More

Audit Notes: Toledo Blade Series, Chait on Pethokoukis, Censorship Inc.

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 3, 2011 at 07:41 PM

The Toledo Blade is running a very good series on middle class people descending into poverty. What I like about... More

Audit Notes: Chart of the Day, Trayvon Martin Sourcing, Updates

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 28, 2012 at 07:34 PM

The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien pulls the chart of the day from Ireland's Central Statistics Office: This shows the change in... More

Audit Notes: Fast Food Nation at 10, U.S. Inequality, Marilyn Hagerty

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 14, 2012 at 12:40 AM

Eric Schlosser revisits his muckraking epic Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal for The Daily Beast,... More

Audit Notes: Fraud Prosecutions Plunge, Robber Barons, Zoning Fight

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 16, 2011 at 07:57 PM

Here's the chart of the day, from Syracuse's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse via The New York Times's Catherine Rampell: Prosecutions... More

Audit Notes: French Capital, French Economists, Hulu’s Paywall

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 18, 2012 at 02:21 AM

Bloomberg's Mark Whitehouse is good to report that as the Eurocrisis flares again, with Spain in the spotlight now, investors... More

Audit Notes: Gutting Blame-the-Borrowers, Geithner Going? Wages and Profits

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 30, 2011 at 06:00 PM

Barry Ritholtz says "First, Blame the Lenders" in a good post today over at The Big Picture on the crisis... More

Audit Notes: Hypocrisy on Warren, Just… Why?, Congress’ Net Worth Soars

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 24, 2010 at 12:33 AM

Former Timesman Peter S. Goodman is out of the gates fast over at The Huffington Post. He points out the... More

Audit Notes: Inequality in NYC, Reuters on Dumb Money, Ireland

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 17, 2010 at 06:05 PM

Yves Smith, in a "Banana Republic Watch," points to a report (PDF) from the Fiscal Policy Institute that finds inequality... More

Audit Notes: McKenna on Lowenstein; U.S., Island Rogue; Stat of the Day

By Ryan Chittum   May 18, 2011 at 06:32 PM

Francine McKenna over at Forbes takes a swing at Roger Lowenstein's "Wall Street: Not Guilty" piece (see my take... More

Audit Notes: More on Inequality, Les Hinton’s Memory

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 26, 2011 at 06:36 PM

The inequality I talked about earlier today has been caused on a couple of levels. While the market income of... More

Audit Notes: Risky Business, Two Economies, Google and Monopoly

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 13, 2010 at 08:17 PM

The New York Times is good to keep an eye on signs of a return of risky lending. Today it... More

Audit Notes: The Massey Report, Objectivity Comics, The Ultrawealthy

By Ryan Chittum   May 20, 2011 at 08:06 PM

Here are the ledes from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times stories this morning on the Massey... More

Audit Notes: The Pentagon’s Privatized Propaganda, Chesapeake, Inequality

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2012 at 10:43 PM

This story is just amazing: A USA TODAY reporter and editor investigating Pentagon propaganda contractors have themselves been subjected to... More