All But Ignoring the Fed’s Call for More Stimulus

Deficit-obsessed newspapers stuff Bernanke’s plea for near-term spending or tax cuts

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 22, 2010 at 12:51 PM

Last week, Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman, Republican, Bush appointee, calm technocrat, called for more fiscal stimulus (government spending and/or... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg on the Fed, OCC Meddles for Banks, Who Runs the World

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 31, 2011 at 07:57 PM

Bloomberg News is flooding the zone on the Fed's discount-window document dump, which the central bank had to disclose after... More

Audit Notes: Fed Transparency, Carp Invasion, Chinese Imports

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 22, 2012 at 01:38 AM

The Wall Street Journal is good to bird-dog the Federal Reserve on transparency, and it gets results even before publishing... More

Audit Notes: Forced Fed, Bank Wages, Schroeder on Buffett

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 1, 2011 at 07:48 PM

The press continues to rifle through the Fed's discount window data dump, finding that Some 70 percent of all loans... More

Audit Notes: Nocera on Frannie, The Fed’s Politics, Confidence Game

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 20, 2011 at 11:45 PM

Joe Nocera writes that the SEC's case against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives is "extraordinarily weak," relying on the... More

Audit Notes: Palin Holds Forth on QE2, Top 400 Taxes, Too Big to Jail

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 8, 2010 at 05:25 PM

If you, like me, had been eagerly awaiting Sarah Palin's thoughts on Quantitative Easing: Part Deux, the wait is over!... More

Audit Notes: Payment Protection, Greek Austerity, Inflation Bugaboo

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 8, 2012 at 01:49 AM

American Banker's Victoria Finkle and Jeff Horwitz report on the credit card industry's payment-protection racket and note that the Consumer... More

Audit Notes: The Fed and Labor, Revolving Door Watch, Bank Dividends

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 22, 2011 at 08:24 PM

Mike Konczal, aka Rortybomb, has a very interesting post asking questions about the impact of Federal Reserve policies have had... More

Audit Notes: The Federal Reserve’s Trillion-Dollar Bailout Document Dump

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 1, 2010 at 08:42 PM

The Federal Reserve today released a trove of information, much of which was sought by Bloomberg's Mark Pittman lawsuit, on... More

Audit Notes: Triple Dip; Bloomberg Terminals; Goldman, AIG, and the Fed

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 13, 2012 at 09:45 PM

Jeffrey Verschleiser is in the news for renting out the entire ninety-four room Hotel Jerome this weekend for his daughter's... More

Becky Quick Thinks the Fed Is Too Focused on Jobs

That makes no sense historically or in the current context

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 8, 2011 at 12:30 AM

CNBC's Becky Quick uses her Fortune column to argue that the Federal Reserve should break the law. The law says... More

Bernanke Calls for Government Spending and Much of the Press Ignores It (Again)

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 3, 2011 at 05:50 PM

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called for more fiscal stimulus yesterday in his most direct plea yet for the government... More

Bernanke’s Stimulus Call Finally Makes The WSJ

Two weeks later.

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 2, 2010 at 11:46 AM

A couple of weeks ago, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke issued a public call for Congress and the president to... More

Beyond Just-the-Facts

A debate illuminates the Fed’s latest moves

By Felix Salmon   Nov 8, 2010 at 12:15 PM

After the Fed formally announced its new bout of quantitative easing, the CFR’s Sebastian Mallaby lost little time in declaring... More

Bloomberg Eyes Bank of America’s Derivatives Move

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 19, 2011 at 12:46 PM

Bloomberg News reports that Bank of America (with Federal Reserve approval) put Merrill Lynch credit-default swaps into BofA's deposit-holding arm... More

Bloomberg Leads on the Fed (Again)

The consequences of the central bank’s secrecy

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 28, 2011 at 03:12 PM

Bloomberg is still, thank God, hammering away at the gargantuan bank bailouts of 2008-2009. Most of those were hidden from... More