Audit Notes: Economic Headwinds, Refinancing, Google’s Dominance

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 19, 2011 at 07:25 PM

Crain's New York Business's Aaron Elstein takes a good look anecdotes at the headwinds New York's economy is facing from... More

The AP Puts Faces on the Poverty Numbers

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 19, 2011 at 02:59 PM

The Associated Press fans out across the country to put faces on the poverty numbers released last week. Needless to... More

Audit Notes: Scotland Yard Thugs, Reuters Raises Its Sights, An NYT Miss

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 16, 2011 at 04:18 PM

It looks like they ought to just shut Scotland Yard down and start over from scratch. The Metropolitan Police is... More

Reporting on Solyndra

Missing basic concepts about the government’s loan-guarantee program.

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 16, 2011 at 03:24 PM

Much of the press coverage of the Solyndra bankruptcy has been poor on some basic concepts at the heart of... More

Ron Suskind on Obama’s Weakness

A new book reports Geithner ignored the president on overhauling Citigroup

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 16, 2011 at 12:53 AM

It's been apparent for a good while that Obama is a weak president. But so weak that his own people... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg’s Euphemisms, ETFs and CDOs, TechCrunch and Goldman

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 15, 2011 at 07:36 PM

It's sort of darkly amusing to read all the euphemisms in this Bloomberg News story reporting on the latest warnings... More

Framing the Jobs Plan… Er, Second Stimulus

This time Democrats get that language matters, and the press plays along

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 15, 2011 at 12:39 AM

Barack Obama proposed his second stimulus last week, pitching a $450 billion measure. Or is it a jobs plan? Let's... More

Bloomberg Versus Reuters on Obama Polls

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 14, 2011 at 05:15 PM

Correlation is not causation. That's a hard lesson to internalize for the press, which insists on slapping a narrative on... More

Audit Notes: College Sports, NY AG Probing Lehman Execs, Shale Drilling

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 13, 2011 at 07:46 PM

— Taylor Branch's cover story in the new Atlantic is a devastating indictment of the NCAA, a must-read for anyone... More

Wealth Over Work

The Washington Post excels; Indiviglio misses the point

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 13, 2011 at 09:32 AM

Press friends, if there's one thing that shows how our system is set up to favor capital over labor, wealth... More

Procter & Gamble and the Hollowing Out of the U.S. Economy

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 12, 2011 at 01:55 PM

It's always nice to see a paragraph like this on the front page of the country's biggest paper: In the... More

Audit Notes: The 14th Century, Gilded China, The Second Stimulus

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 9, 2011 at 08:45 PM

Treasury bonds yields hit another low today, dropping to 1.917 percent for ten-year bonds. You might even say markets are... More

The Business Press’s Favorite Talking Head

Mark Zandi on speed dial

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 9, 2011 at 06:57 PM

My first reaction to this Bloomberg article was to write this on the Twitter: hey, whaddya know, Mark Zandi is... More

Audit Notes: Social Security and Ponzi, Regulation, Hamster Wheel

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 8, 2011 at 08:58 PM

The Wall Street Journal's Laura Meckler has a nice rebuttal to Rick Perry's false claim in last night's Republican debate... More

FHFA Suits Try to Hold Individual Execs Accountable

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 8, 2011 at 04:37 PM

Jonathan Stempel of Reuters points out something that the press has all but ignored about the Federal Housing Finance Agency's... More

Audit Notes: Detroit Foreclosures, Soros on the Euro Crisis, NYT on Stimulus

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 7, 2011 at 07:28 PM

The Detroit News reports that some homeowners in the city are letting their houses go into foreclosure over unpaid tax... More

American Banker Shows DOJ Sat On a Bank-Kickback Scandal

HUD says big banks got $6 billion, but the attorney general does nothing

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 7, 2011 at 02:52 PM

American Banker has really been doing some superb stuff lately. Jeff Horwitz has a big scoop in today's paper, reporting... More

Ham-fisted Racism at Fox Sports

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 7, 2011 at 02:05 PM

So Fox Sports hired a comedian to go to the USC campus and make fun of "All American" Asian students... More

Amazon’s California Tax Battle

Fighting to delay the end of its unfair advantage

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 6, 2011 at 02:37 PM

While billionaire Jeff Bezos is off crashing spaceships (or wannabe spaceships, anyway) in the West Texas desert, his company's unfair... More

Audit Notes: FHFA Suits, Corporate Taxes, SEC Out of Step

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 2, 2011 at 07:57 PM

I've just skimmed through some of the Federal Housing Finance Agency's huge lawsuits against seventeen big banks, but it was... More