Michael Milken, financier and philanthropist (UPDATED) March 19, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The Washington Post and WSJ forget a key piece of information
Squeezing Time Inc. dry December 12, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Time Warner prepares to dump a dangerous debt load on its publishing spinoff
In Obama’s Wall Street-friendly cabinet, a clean sweep for finance November 16, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Tim Geithner goes private equity, surprising The New York Times
Asking the wrong question about Dell March 14, 2013 By David Cay Johnston A WSJ columnist misses the point on the CEO-led buyout
Audit Notes: Seattle paywall, private equity taxes, mortgage security fraud February 25, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The Seattle Times will charge online readers beginning next month
Must-reads of 2012: politics December 26, 2012 By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx What you should have read (in case you didn’t)
Audit Notes: WaPo on the Bain thing, deadbeat Forbes, hamster wheel November 13, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The Post‘s revealing slip-up on the definition of swift-boating
Audit Notes: inequality denial, AIG’s CEO, private equity October 29, 2012 By Ryan Chittum WSJ op-ed pushes the false notion that the rich haven’t pulled away from everyone else
The NYT unseals a private-equity scoop October 12, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Emails between executives look like antitrust smoking guns
Audit Notes: NYT and Bain, Dimon’s Comp Committee, 401(k)s September 13, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Too much focus on Romney, who left the company years before the alleged collusion
Audit Notes: Singing on Libor, another bank scandal, Star Tribune August 7, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The NYT on how banks are turning each other in
The private-equity problem with Romney and GS Technologies (UPDATED) May 25, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Loading up a company with debt to ensure Bain’s own profits
Audit notes: No more daily in New Orleans, McClatchy, private equity May 24, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The NYT reports the Times-Picayune will print two or three times a week
Patent Trolls 4 News Paywalls January 23, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Nathan Myhrvold makes some common errors about the newspaper industry
On Debt, Mitt’s of Two Minds January 19, 2012 By Ryan Chittum A career built on it and a campaign that rails against it
Reuters on Romney’s Private-Equity Past January 6, 2012 By Ryan Chittum How Bain Capital profited as workers got crushed
Subprime Déjà Vu November 1, 2011 By Ryan Chittum The Los Angeles Times investigates the Buy Here Pay Here car market