LAT Scores on Health Insurance Scheme

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 7, 2009 at 10:48 AM

The LA Times gets a nice win today in its series on health insurers. The paper has run a series... More

Pearlstein Skewers Obama’s SEC Pick

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 7, 2009 at 09:29 AM

Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post is good to raise serious questions about Mary Schapiro, Obama's pick for SEC chairwoman.... More

The Journal Goes Frontline

A (mostly) well-done mini-documentary on the financial crisis

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 7, 2009 at 08:38 AM

If you visited The Wall Street Journal's website yesterday, you saw it touting a three-part in-house video called “The End... More

Conflict-of-Interestism and Lewis/Einhorn

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 6, 2009 at 09:24 AM

Over at the Instaputz blog, TS raises the potential conflict-of-interest factor in Michael Lewis's op-ed collaboration with hedge fundie/author David... More

WSJ’s Good Vehicle for Explaining Subprime Mess

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 5, 2009 at 03:58 PM

Just wanted to make sure you saw this great A1 story in the Journal on Saturday. Reporter Michael M. Phillips... More

Bloomberg on the Dearth of Lending

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 5, 2009 at 10:10 AM

Bloomberg has a story on the lack of lending that Michael Lewis and David Einhorn slapped Henry Paulson around for... More

Michael Lewis and David Einhorn on Long-Term Fixes

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 5, 2009 at 09:43 AM

It's only Monday, but I'm pretty confident this piece in The New York Times yesterday will be the must-read of... More

Journal Finds More Regulatory Failures on Madoff

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 5, 2009 at 08:35 AM

The Journal reports out the "serial regulatory failures" that allowed Bernard Madoff to perpetuate the bigges Ponzi scheme in history.... More

Audit Rewind: Elinore Longobardi’s Best of 2008

A handful of her picks from last year

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 1, 2009 at 09:05 PM

1) The Great Man Theory and Hank Paulson The press often seeks out and artificially creates a Big Man in... More

Audit Rewind: Dean Starkman’s Best of 2008

A roundup of some of his favorites from 2008

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 31, 2008 at 12:13 AM

1) The Anglo-ization of The Wall Street Journal Dean saw the Journal moving toward a more British/Australian style of journalism—one... More

Audit Rewind: Ryan Chittum’s Best of 2008

Looking back at the year that was in business journalism

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 29, 2008 at 10:44 PM

1) My Foreclosure Two years into the housing bust, with millions put out of their houses, we sometimes go numb... More

OTS Mess Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 23, 2008 at 10:00 AM

The mini-scandal at the Office of Thrift Supervision is big news this morning. Apparently, a regulator allowed IndyMac to fudge... More

Tracing Wall Street’s WMDs

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 23, 2008 at 08:44 AM

The Journal looks at how investments that were supposed to reduce risk by spreading it instead magnified it by spreading... More

Bush Smacks Back at NYT Story

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 22, 2008 at 02:32 PM

The New York Times added another entry to its "The Reckoning" series yesterday, this one focusing on the Bush Administration's... More

Madoff’s Enablers

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 22, 2008 at 09:22 AM

The Times takes a smart look at one of Bernie Madoff's biggest enablers that didn't have the initials S.E.C. Fairfield... More

Bloomberg Tough on Merrill’s Thain

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 22, 2008 at 08:44 AM

Bloomberg has a tough look at John Thain, the CEO of Merrill Lynch who was brought into save the struggling... More

Did Tax Cuts Help Blow the Bubble?

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 19, 2008 at 09:36 AM

The Times continues to try to lay bare the roots of the housing debacle. Today's story, part of its excellent... More

Audit Interview: Jack Dolan

“I didn’t see anybody else do what we did, and I’m absolutely certain they could have.”

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 19, 2008 at 09:06 AM

We at The Audit have called on the press to do more reporting on the underbelly of the mortgage industry,... More

“With Its Heart Still Beating”

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 19, 2008 at 08:38 AM

The Journal has an excellent front-page "leder" today on the other rich-dude fraud of the moment: Marc Dreier, who owned... More

Not-So-Sticky Wages at FedEx

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 18, 2008 at 12:01 PM

Felix Salmon of Portfolio makes a good catch today about "sticky wages", which David Leonhardt of the Times wrote about... More