The Audit

Bloomberg on Papering Over Banks’ Losses

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 30, 2009 at 09:18 AM

Bloomberg reports that the proposed changes to mark-to-market accounting rules could boost paper profits at banks by 20 percent. Hey,... More

NYT: Heads They Win, Tails They Win a Bit Less

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 27, 2009 at 02:26 PM

The Times looks at a piece of the unaccountability culture in corporate America: Changing stock-option strike prices (legally) to make... More

Just What’s Left in the Metro Dailies?

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 27, 2009 at 01:17 PM

NYU prof and Press Thinker Jay Rosen has had it with what he calls "replaceniks"—those who throw out the red... More

WaPo Scoop Shows Government’s Bailout Conflicts

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 27, 2009 at 11:44 AM

The Washington Post fronts a pretty big scoop on friction at Freddie Mac caused by its untenable straddling between responsibility... More

Journal’s Good Effort on the Immigration Backlash

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 27, 2009 at 09:05 AM

The Wall Street Journal has a really good story today on the government discouraging companies from hiring foreign workers. First... More

Milwaukee J-S Exposes Criminals in the Mortgage Biz

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 26, 2009 at 05:22 PM

Late last year I did a Q&A with The Miami Herald's Jack Dolan, who led a team that wrote an... More

NYT Sues Fed and Treasury

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 26, 2009 at 01:44 PM

A tip of the hat to The New York Times for filing a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve and the... More

The “Other” Post Gets a Great Scoop

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 26, 2009 at 09:40 AM

The New York Post yesterday reported that Citigroup and Bank of America, those two enormous welfare cases teetering under the... More

Journal Inside the AIG Wagon-Circling

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 26, 2009 at 08:51 AM

The WSJ has a good story today with lots of detail about what's going on inside AIG's now-infamous Financial Products... More

The WSJ and the Limits of a “No Jumps” Policy

Dumbing down and devaluing The Wall Street Journal

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 25, 2009 at 10:49 AM

We've talked quite a bit about the FT-ization of the Journal since Murdoch got his grubby paws on it, shoved... More

FT on the Death of the Stocks Religion

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 25, 2009 at 09:03 AM

The Financial Times runs an excellent analysis by columnist John Authers looking at how the "cult of equity" has been... More

Tough-Talking BofA Analyst Yesterday, Gone Today

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 24, 2009 at 11:55 AM

Wow. I thought it was stunning when I read a short Bloomberg story just yesterday about a Bank of America... More

Bloomberg: The Real AIG Bonus Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 24, 2009 at 09:08 AM

Bloomberg News has a great story today on how the government's AIG bailout not only preserved those infamous $165 million... More

Speedy Kills

A new Journal edict to employees will hurt the paper

By Dean Starkman   Mar 23, 2009 at 03:58 PM

Back in the summer of 2007, when the world was a cartoon version of today and Dow Jones & Co.... More

The Core Question: What’s This Junk Really Worth?

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 23, 2009 at 03:04 PM

Now that the details of Obama’s bad-assets are coming out, the back and forth begins. So far, Mr. Market likes... More