200 Years of Citi

An alternate history

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2012 at 02:42 PM

Bloomberg's Christine Harper, on Twitter, notes that Citigroup's corporate timeline, launched in a must-have new iPad app called Citi News,... More

LAT Watchdogs Wall Street on the GM IPO

The banks just can’t help themselves, and if shares soar, political problems await.

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 16, 2010 at 01:03 PM

The L.A. Times takes a smart tack on the General Motors IPO story, reporting that it shows how Wall Street... More

Audit Notes: Davies on Murdoch, Banks Eye the Poor for Fees, TARP ROI

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 26, 2012 at 08:53 PM

Nick Davies writes in The Guardian that, after a second day of questioning under oath, "Rupert Murdoch is in trouble...... More

Audit Notes: Stocks Fed, Stadium Economics, Dumb-Question Headlines

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 29, 2011 at 06:07 PM

Gretchen Morgenson had an interesting quote in her column yesterday riffing off Bloomberg's investigation into $1.2 trillion of Fed bailouts:... 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

Bloomberg Ferrets Out New Details on the Fed’s Bailouts

By Ryan Chittum   May 26, 2011 at 01:43 PM

There were so many bailouts going on in 2008 that Congress apparently forgot about some of them. Bloomberg gets a... 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

Bloomberg News on the Fed’s Secret Mega-TARP

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 22, 2011 at 05:55 PM

Back when our late pal Mark Pittman and Bloomberg sued the Federal Reserve to force it to disclose secret details... More

Fannie’s Regulator Isn’t Playing Obama Team Ball

Suing the banks rather than protecting them

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 2, 2011 at 02:22 PM

The New York Times scoop that Fannie and Freddie's regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is suing the big banks... More

Inured to “Trillions”

Take a step back on the Federal Reserve bailout story

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 2, 2010 at 07:19 PM

The Federal Reserve is forced by Congress to reveal who it secretly bailed out with trillions of dollars in loans.... More

Market Mess

Troubles pile up for the financial system and the economy

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 8, 2011 at 08:18 PM

What happened in the markets today? Good luck figuring that out (you can't, really). Let's just say it's some combination... More

SIGTARP Barofsky Skewers Treasury’s TARP Defense

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 30, 2011 at 11:51 AM

Today's must-read comes from Neil Barofsky, the TARP's special inspector general, in a New York Times op-ed. He guts the... More

Taibbi on a Fed Bailout the Business Press Buried

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 12, 2011 at 02:11 PM

Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone zeroes in on an interesting detail from the Federal Reserve's bailouts: The Fed lent big... More

The Second-Day Fed Bailouts Coverage

From good to okay to non-existent

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 3, 2010 at 07:31 PM

And just like that, the Federal Reserve bailout story disappears from the pages of The Wall Street Journal. There's not... More