The Audit

Time: CNBC Is Us (on Steroids)

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 17, 2009 at 12:33 PM

My colleague Liz Cox Barrett points to a really good piece by James Poniewozik in Time on the meaning of... More

Sorkin: Contracts Sacrosanct, Except When They’re Not

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 17, 2009 at 11:34 AM

An astute reader writes to point out that the NYT's Andrew Ross Sorkin wasn't all for the sacrosanctity of contracts... More

Sorkin and the Straw Man

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 17, 2009 at 09:10 AM

A big thumbs down to the Times's Andrew Ross Sorkin for his poorly reasoned column this morning on why we... More

“Mean Street,” Indeed

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 16, 2009 at 01:46 PM

We've been talking a lot about the bubble lately. Not that bubble: This bubble: So, I couldn't let this go... More

Starkman on The NewsHour

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 16, 2009 at 10:11 AM

Audit chieftain Dean Starkman made an appearance on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on Friday to discuss the performance of... More

The Press Wins One on AIG

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 16, 2009 at 08:48 AM

After six months, we finally know who got backdoor bailouts from the AIG rescue, and how much they got—$105 billion,... More

Cramer v. Stewart Coverage Largely Misses

The show capped a signal moment in the crisis

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 13, 2009 at 04:41 PM

There's not much to say about Cramer v. Stewart that hasn't already been said elsewhere. It seems everyone, everywhere is... More

ProPublica Blogs the Stimulus

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 13, 2009 at 10:52 AM

I really like this idea from the non-profit investigative-journalism folks at ProPublica: Bird-dog the hundreds of billions of dollars in... More

Bloomberg’s Weil Blows Up Moody’s

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 13, 2009 at 08:49 AM

Jonathan Weil has a must-read column over at Bloomberg on Moody's, the credit-ratings giant that is one of the biggest... More

Live From the Madoff Trial: A Gas Run

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 12, 2009 at 11:33 AM

The Journal has a mega-blowout headline on its Web site on the Madoff guilty plea. But when I clicked the... More

Black Helicopters Spotted at WSJ Sister Network

Glenn Beck and Fox go way, way off the deep end

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 12, 2009 at 10:53 AM

The economic crisis has most of us worried about a lot of things. How will I retire? How will I... More

Busting the Boiler Rooms: It’s About Time

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 12, 2009 at 09:06 AM

The New York Times reports today that officials are gearing up for a flood of prosecutions against the mortgage fraud... More

How About a Light-Hearted Banking Story?

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 11, 2009 at 05:57 PM

This comes from my home-state paper, The Daily Oklahoman. This is the lede: If you’d like to earn 5.25 percent... More

“Cramer vs. Not Cramer”

CNBC’s court jester faces off with Jon Stewart

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 11, 2009 at 10:42 AM

So CNBC's Jim Cramer has agreed to sit down with Jon Stewart and The Daily Show on Thursday in what... More

Leonhardt on the Looters

Arguing that financiers’ government “put” caused the crisis

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 11, 2009 at 09:25 AM

The New York Times's David Leonhardt has the must-read of the day today. He focuses an early 1990s research paper... More