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Tuesday Links: Sorkin, De-Indexing, the Google Problem

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 24, 2009 at 08:57 PM

Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism shreds Andrew Ross Sorkin's column on Congress finally stiffening its spine today. The headline betrays... More

FT’s Wolf: Windfall Tax Wall Street

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 24, 2009 at 04:37 PM

It's been somewhat baffling how little taxation has been discussed in the press as a possible answer to the problems... More

BAILOUT, STIMULUS — Your Essential Guide

In a specially commissioned study, The Audit offers a first-stop, comprehensive guide to the big federal spending programs. Read it. Love it. Use it daily.

By Jaimie Dougherty   Nov 24, 2009 at 03:40 PM

We’re past the one-year marks of the financial crisis and the $700 billion bailout; next up, in February: the stimulus... More

A Too-Narrow Lens

By Dean Starkman   Nov 24, 2009 at 03:04 PM

Zach Carter hits on something interesting about shareholder democracy in The Nation this week (disclosure-longer-than-this-post: I wrote a piece for... More

Murdoch, Microsoft, and Google

Getting paid for indexing news wouldn’t amount to much

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 24, 2009 at 05:01 AM

So Rupert Murdoch is indeed trying to squeeze the search engines for some cash, something we figured a couple of... More

BusinessWeek on Wall Street’s Nerve

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 23, 2009 at 04:29 PM

BusinessWeek's cover story this week on how Wall Street's shenanigans are threatening already-reeling local governments is a must-read. The lede... More

NYT’s Carr Finds Something New to Say about Oprah

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 23, 2009 at 09:46 AM

The New York Times's David Carr has a very smart column this morning analyzing Oprah Winfrey's massive, sustained business success.... More

Friday Links: Smart Money, Rodney King, Dilution

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 20, 2009 at 05:46 PM

Remember that $500 million program for small businesses Goldman Sachs announced along with its apology earlier this week? It was... More

Bloomberg Finds the Fed on Bubble Watch

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 20, 2009 at 05:31 PM

Bloomberg gets a nice scoop that the Federal Reserve is apparently worried about the new bubble it's inflating. Federal Reserve... More

Not For All the News in China, Part I

Former NYT Shanghai bureau chief Howard French on the coverage of Obama’s trip to Asia

By Alexandra Fenwick   Nov 20, 2009 at 12:01 PM

The past week’s flurry of stories and opinion pieces chronicling President Barack Obama’s fortunes in the Far East made much... More

WSJ Editorial Scrutinizes Geithner on AIG Counterparties

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 20, 2009 at 10:12 AM

I wrote twice on Tuesday about the bizarre Tim Geithner quote that "the financial condition of the counterparties was not... More

What’s a News Brief Worth?

By Dean Starkman   Nov 20, 2009 at 09:08 AM

The Journal Inquirer, of Manchester, Conn., which over the summer forced its larger rival, the Hartford Courant, to admit to... More

Thursday Links: Custard Ken, (More) Media Layoffs, Chainsaw Guy

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 19, 2009 at 07:44 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a very good page-one leder on Ken Griffin's giant hedge fund firm Citadel, which is... More

Prospect’s Take on Too Big to Fail

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 19, 2009 at 02:18 PM

The British magazine Prospect has one of the better explainers on too big to fail I've yet seen. It's a... More

A Good Bloomberg Profile of Elizabeth Warren

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 19, 2009 at 10:23 AM

Bloomberg this morning posts a really good profile of Elizabeth Warren, who, despite much of the press's dismissal of her... More