The Audit

WSJ Keeps a Close Watch on the Wall Street Lobby

By Ryan Chittum   May 29, 2009 at 09:43 AM

The Wall Street Journal scoops that Wall Street is up to its old tricks. It's lobbying against greater transparency rules... More

Pearlstein Hammers the OCC

By Ryan Chittum   May 28, 2009 at 05:57 PM

Steven Pearlstein wrote a brutal column yesterday on John Dugan, the Comptroller of the Currency. Dugan is complaining that FDIC... More

“Green Shoots” Are About to Get Swamped

A second wave of foreclosures is coming, and the media need to watch out

By Ryan Chittum   May 28, 2009 at 02:12 PM

I get the sense that the press is becoming a bit too sanguine about the economy's prospects, something that could... More

A Mightn’t Wind Blows at the Journal

By Ryan Chittum   May 28, 2009 at 09:53 AM

There's a noticeable tic showing up in Wall Street Journal copy in recent months. All of a sudden, the very... More

Nut Says Moon Is Made Of Cheese, Bloomberg Reports

By Ryan Chittum   May 27, 2009 at 04:39 PM

The investor-guru story is an annoying staple of business journalism. These piece often report that "Bill Gross says this" or... More

An Inoculation for Wall Street Outrage Fatigue

By Ryan Chittum   May 27, 2009 at 01:24 PM

After all we've learned in the last couple of years, are you still capable of being astonished at the behavior... More

The FT’s Kay Takes on “Too Big to Fail”

By Ryan Chittum   May 27, 2009 at 09:39 AM

Financial Times columnist John Kay writes one of the best-reasoned explanations I've seen for why "too big to fail" can't... More

A Slap-Your-Head Bloomberg Column on Newspapers’ Decline

By Ryan Chittum   May 26, 2009 at 10:54 PM

Kevin "Dow 36,000" Hassett, somehow has a column at Bloomberg. Occasionally I read it. As a media critic who writes... More

A Sin of Omission, Part Two

By Ryan Chittum   May 26, 2009 at 01:55 PM

New York Times reporter Edmund Andrews responded to criticism of his book, and the issue made it to the paper's... More

Brooksley Born, Finally on the Record

By Ryan Chittum   May 26, 2009 at 10:52 AM

The Washington Post gets the first interview with Brooksley Born since the crisis started and gives it a good run.... More

A Sin of Omission

The Atlantic finds an NYT memoirist withheld relevant information

By Ryan Chittum   May 22, 2009 at 04:25 PM

Megan McArdle of The Atlantic digs up some embarrassing information on The New York Times's Edmund Andrews, and the scoop... More

Welcome to the Jungle

Journalists, meet the all-or-nothing job market

By David Cay Johnston   May 22, 2009 at 11:20 AM

Reporter Dan Browning's piece on coming newsroom cuts at the St. Paul Pioneer-Press contains a curious detail that perhaps will... More

Bloomberg Shines on TARP Repayments

By Ryan Chittum   May 22, 2009 at 09:54 AM

This is why you've got to love Bloomberg's Mark Pittman. He takes a story, grabs on to the taxpayer angle,... More

breakingviews, Broken Logic

By Ryan Chittum   May 21, 2009 at 02:54 PM

This breakingviews column just can't seem to make up its mind how to back up its assertion—perhaps because that assertion... More

Former Head of Pension Insurer Pleads the Fifth

By Ryan Chittum   May 21, 2009 at 11:14 AM

Wow. The former head of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Charles E.F. Millard, has pleaded the Fifth Amendment to a... More