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A Columnist Recants, but the WSJ Edit Page Won’t Hear it
The paper runs a flawed column and declines to publish the retraction
By Ryan Chittum Nov 23, 2011 at 11:39 AM
A year and a half ago, George Mason University economics professor Daniel B. Klein wrote a column about his finding... More
Audit Notes: Amazon watch, the Capitalist Tool, WSJ and Pinochet
NYT finds the dominant bookseller reining in the discounts in some areas
By Ryan Chittum Jul 8, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Amazon has long employed predatory pricing to establish market dominance. And in Monopoly 101, cornering a market allows you to... More
Audit Notes: Dark Ages, Mitt and Rupert, Chesapeake’s taxes
Stephen Moore on how “the greens” supposedly want to plunge America into darkness
By Ryan Chittum Jul 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal editorial page's Stephen Moore uses the power outage in DC as a warning about what life... More
Audit Notes: inequality denial, AIG’s CEO, private equity
WSJ op-ed pushes the false notion that the rich haven’t pulled away from everyone else
By Ryan Chittum Oct 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New Republic's Timothy Noah and The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien demolish a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Kevin "Dow 36,000"... More
Audit Notes: Jamie’s juice, a new Glass Steagall, U-T San Diego
ProPublica documents JPMorgan Chase’s extensive ties to a docile Senate Banking Committee
By Ryan Chittum Jun 13, 2012 at 07:57 PM
ProPublica has a sweet piece listing the connections between JPMorgan Chase and the Senate Banking Committee, which didn't exactly grill... More
Audit Notes: Minimum Wage and the Recession, Facebook’s Numbers, Most Powerless
By Ryan Chittum Feb 3, 2012 at 06:44 PM
The Wall Street Journal runs an editorial today criticizing Mitt Romney for his support for increasing the minimum wage and... More
Bad Math From the WSJ Opinion Pages
By Ryan Chittum Feb 6, 2012 at 07:41 PM
Brad DeLong catches The Wall Street Journal editorial page in some hilariously bad math. Here's Stephen Moore: Federal workers on... More
Mitt Romney and the Lucky Duckies
A gaffe created in the Fox News/WSJ editorial page echo chamber
By Ryan Chittum Sep 18, 2012 at 03:28 PM
Who are the 47 percent, why were Mitt Romney's comments on them so wrong, and how did Romney come to... More
Peggy Noonan loses it on the IRS story
The Journal columnist draws an evidence-free connection to the White House
By Ryan Chittum May 17, 2013 at 06:50 AM
We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate. That's Peggy Noonan today in The Wall Street... More
The IRS scandal unwinds
And Peggy Noonan pushes crazy conspiracy theories in the WSJ
By Ryan Chittum Jun 25, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The IRS Tea Party "scandal" has taken a couple of body blows in the last week. First, it emerged that... More
The Turkey-Inflation Goblin
Supply and demand is lost on the WSJ editorial page
By Ryan Chittum Nov 23, 2011 at 02:08 PM
Speaking of The Wall Street Journal editorial page, its Opinion Journal Live is looking for signs of runaway inflation to... More
The WSJ editorial page and Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan
Bogus numbers and rewritten history
By Ryan Chittum Aug 16, 2012 at 11:06 AM
The Wall Street Journal editorial board's Joseph Rago makes a whopper of an error in a column Tuesday extolling Paul... More
The WSJ Editorial Page and the Libor scandal
Blaming everybody but the bankers
By Ryan Chittum Jul 17, 2012 at 11:00 AM
When wrongdoing by Big Business is in the news, you can usually count on the WSJ editorial page to do... More
Why Making More Money Is Groovy, And Makes You Richer
By Ryan Chittum Mar 19, 2012 at 07:55 PM
You might think this is an Onion-style parody of a column by a right-wing think tanker: But it's no joke.... More
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