CNBC spins right (and wrong) on the debt and deficit November 8, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The factually challenged network is at it again
The undercovered dark cloud in the shrinking-deficit story May 30, 2013 By David Cay Johnston Flurry of articles was welcome, but some cautionary notes deserved greater play
Audit Notes: Farm labor fight, government debt, dumb-question headlines May 9, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Americans sue to get farm jobs from Mexican guest workers
What’s on the chopping block? February 12, 2013 By Trudy Lieberman The great sequestration guessing game: What will Democrats surrender?
Talking back to Alan Simpson May 31, 2012 By Trudy Lieberman The press picks up on his latest salvo. More, please?
A Grand Bargain on entitlements? May 29, 2012 By Trudy Lieberman The press is sending signals about Simpson-Bowles. How about explaining it?
WaPo Shows Geithner Pushed Austerity June 8, 2011 By Ryan Chittum A profile reports the Treasury secretary steered Obama away from jobs focus
Conservatives Get Colorful on Obama’s Deficit Speech April 14, 2011 By Joel Meares More subdued libs are mostly pleased
Audit Notes: Main Street Corp., The Do-Nothing Deficit Fix, Hugh Grant April 13, 2011 By Ryan Chittum
Two Non-Plans for the Deficit April 13, 2011 By Joel Meares Slate and Times op-eds suggest Obama slack off
Another Take on NPR’s "Liberal Bias" March 16, 2011 By Trudy Lieberman Its reporting on Social Security is anything but
Audit Notes: It’s Wall Street’s Deficit, Dimon Steps In It, Red-Faced Mortgage Bankers February 3, 2011 By Ryan Chittum
Audit Notes: Baffled Wall Street Historians, Too Much Demand, Deficits to Shrink January 27, 2011 By Ryan Chittum
Fact Checking the Fact Checkers January 27, 2011 By Ryan Chittum PolitiFact is half right on two State of the Union truth-o-meters
Republican Study Committee Gets Specific January 21, 2011 By Joel Meares Reporters grapple with complexities
“Uncertainty” Trotted Out in the Journal December 14, 2010 By Ryan Chittum Business code for "we may not get our way"
NYT on the Irish Mess November 29, 2010 By Ryan Chittum A private-sector crisis turned into the people’s problem by politicians.
All But Ignoring the Fed’s Call for More Stimulus November 22, 2010 By Ryan Chittum Deficit-obsessed newspapers stuff Bernanke’s plea for near-term spending or tax cuts