Misleading Readers on Romney’s “$12 Million Teardown”

The value is almost all in the land

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 12, 2012 at 02:43 PM

We've heard a lot about $12 million teardowns lately. Tiger Woods's ex-wife Elin Nordegren is tearing down her $12 million... More

The Banker Finds Possible “Trouble” at Chase (UPDATED)

Debt-collection lawsuits dry up in at least five states, raising questions about past practices

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 11, 2012 at 02:13 PM

Back in June, The Wall Street Journal reported a big scoop that press favorite Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase had dropped... More

Audit Notes: Kent State Court, Corporate Taxes, the Communion Wafer Industry

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 10, 2012 at 07:31 PM

Hats off to The Daily Kent Stater and reporter Doug Brown for exposing how the university was about to name... More

Wall Street’s Toxic Touch

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 10, 2012 at 03:22 PM

Bloomberg View's Mark Whitehouse points to a fascinating report on new evidence showing how badly Wall Street screwed investors in... More

Audit Notes: Swiped, Hit List, Journo Demographics

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 9, 2012 at 07:59 PM

Bloomberg News has an interesting story on a dispute between a Utah restaurant and Visa and Mastercard. The card companies... More

It’s the WSJ’s Turn on Romney’s Private Equity Record

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 9, 2012 at 02:34 PM

Mitt Romney's tenure at private-equity firm Bain Capital is the gift that will keep on giving for journalists. Reuters reported... More

Audit Notes: GE and Subprime, WaPo on Recess, Fed Fumes on Housing

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 6, 2012 at 08:04 PM

The Center for Public Integrity’s Michael Hudson continues one of the most important series of the last year, on how... More

Reuters on Romney’s Private-Equity Past

How Bain Capital profited as workers got crushed

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 6, 2012 at 03:15 PM

Reuters has a great look today at how Mitt Romney's Bain Capital loaded up a steel company with debt, mismanaged... More

Audit Notes: Citi Fees, A Bipartisan Bloomberg Dream, The Toil Index

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 5, 2012 at 08:16 PM

Felix Salmon reports on an awful new fee Citigroup has cooked up to milk its customers. The bank will charge... More

The WSJ Eyes Analyst-Shopping

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 5, 2012 at 03:17 PM

Call me naive, but I didn't know that companies launching IPOs were still overtly shopping around for banks with favorable... More

Best of 2011: Ryan Chittum

The Audit’s deputy editor picks his top CJR stories from the past year

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 30, 2011 at 01:36 AM

Rupert Murdoch and the Corporate Culture of News Corp. On the pressing question of how much Rupert Murdoch is a... More

Audit Notes: Newsstand Success, Paywalls and Tacos, WSJ on Debt Collectors

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 23, 2011 at 05:05 PM

How much has Apple's Newsstand increased sales of magazine apps. It's hard to say, but Peter Kafka posts a chart... More

The Guardian’s Big Hacking-Scandal Error

Failing to attribute its deleted-messages assertion left it open to attack

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 23, 2011 at 01:14 PM

When The Guardian dropped its Milly Dowler bombshell back in July, I called the News Corporation hacking it reported "abhorrent... More

Audit Notes: Rattner Gets a Pass, NYT’s Golden Parachute, No Rhodes Scholar

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 22, 2011 at 06:50 PM

New York Times reporter Geraldine Fabrikant writes a column for Reuters, oddly, on the pass former New York Times reporter,... More

The Journal on Congress’s Inside Dope for Investors

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 22, 2011 at 05:07 PM

The Wall Street Journal continues to investigate the fuzzy intersection between Congress and insider trading, with a good page-one story... More

Bloomberg Takes on the Big Lie of the Crisis

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 21, 2011 at 03:16 PM

Bloomberg takes a crack at knocking down what Barry Ritholtz correctly calls the Big Lie of the crisis, that government... More

Audit Notes: Nocera on Frannie, The Fed’s Politics, Confidence Game

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 20, 2011 at 11:45 PM

Joe Nocera writes that the SEC's case against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives is "extraordinarily weak," relying on the... More

On the Record From Inside a Gilded Bubble

Bloomberg News profiles the beleaguered ultrarich

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 20, 2011 at 04:29 PM

Bloomberg's Max Abelson has quite an eye for the ridiculous. He's dug up an AIG executive's blame-shifting for the financial... More

Audit Notes: Inflation Inflation, FT on Frannie, Deep Downturns

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 19, 2011 at 11:43 PM

Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong catch Niall Ferguson in a whopper on inflation. Ferguson: And the reason the CPI is... More

Baby Doomers: The Trilogy

The Journal’s good look at a generation’s bleak retirement prospects

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 19, 2011 at 04:10 PM

Back in February, The Wall Street Journal's Jim Browning looked at how the Boomers are the first generation to retire... More