Search the Fed’s Documents Detailing Their Lending to Banks During the Crisis

April 7, 2011, 7:45 a.m.

Last week, the Federal Reserve released a cache of several thousand pages detailing its support of financial institutions during the financial crisis. The documents, released due to a Freedom of Information Act request,  include the Fed’s lending through its so-called discount window, its oldest lending program of last resort.

Timeline: How One Blast Affected Five Soldiers

March 22, 2011, 12:03 p.m.

FOIA b(3) Exemptions

March 14, 2011, 1:35 p.m.

Information about watermelon handlers, avocado importers and caves are some of the categories of information that have been withheld from federal Freedom of Information Act requesters using sections of laws that are otherwise unrelated to disclosure. There are hundreds of such laws, according to data compiled by the Sunshine in Government Initiative. They fall under number three—known as b(3)—of the nine exemptions. Use our database to see how extensively agencies use b(3) exemptions.

FCIC Document Dive

Jan. 31, 2011, 2:23 p.m.

When the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released its final report on the causes of the financial crisis, it released an extensive document archive. We’ve tried to make searching through it a bit easier. Use the form below to search for people, places, or organizations mentioned in the documents.

FCIC Document Dive

Jan. 31, 2011, 12:37 p.m.

Five Things You Can Do With Our Interactive Feature on Tainted Drywall

Dec. 17, 2010, 9:53 a.m.

Find Homes With Tainted Drywall

Dec. 15, 2010, 10:05 a.m.

When the Consumer Products Safety Commission provided data in October, the agency said it had received fewer than 3,500 reports of tainted drywall. ProPublica and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune compiled a list of addresses from county property appraiser data and records in consolidated lawsuits filed in New Orleans federal court and found nearly twice that number: around 6,900 homes.

Methodology: Chinese Drywall

Dec. 14, 2010, 5:06 p.m.

Is your member of Congress a New Democrat?

Oct. 25, 2010, 11:03 a.m.

We’ve pulled together a quick cheat sheet with some basic information about each of the group’s 69 member’s district, voting record and campaign funders.

The Rainbow Connection: How We Made Our CDO Connections Graphic

Sept. 23, 2010, 1:30 p.m.

On Wednesday, we launched an interactive news application to help readers understand the cross-owned nature of Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO) in 2006-2007. Here’s how we did it.

CDOs’ Interlocking Ownership

Sept. 22, 2010, 11:21 a.m.

See which CDOs exchanged pieces with other CDOs through our interactive feature that reveals the incestuous nature of Wall Street’s CDO business.

Interactive: CDOs’ Interlocking Ownership

Sept. 22, 2010, 11:09 a.m.

As we reported last month with NPR’s Planet Money, in the two years before the meltdown Wall Street bankers perpetrated one of the greatest episodes of self-dealing in financial history. As part of our story, we wrote of 85 instances during 2006 and 2007 in which two CDOs bought pieces of each other. The trades enabled the completion of $107 billion worth of CDOs and underscore the extent to which the market lacked real buyers.

Pixel Ping: A node.js Stats Tracker

Sept. 8, 2010, 11:15 a.m.

Photo of the Day: Roadside Seafood

June 14, 2010, 1:07 p.m.

Why You Should Check Out the Health Care Bills Side by Side

March 19, 2010, 12:31 p.m.

Side By Side: Health Care Bill

March 19, 2010, 7:03 a.m.

Compare the Senate version of the 2010 Health Care overhaul bill with the final bill.

Stimulus Speed Chart

Feb. 16, 2010, 1:29 p.m.

Just how fast are federal agencies getting stimulus money out the door?

Our Transparency Tracker Notices New SEC ‘Open’ Page

Jan. 28, 2010, 12:45 p.m.

Unemployment Insurance Tracker

Jan. 20, 2010, 1:33 p.m.

Tracking how long state unemployment insurance trust funds will hold up.