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An Excellent WSJ Probe Finds Corporate Jet Abuse
June 16, 2011 01:34 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a terrific investigation into executive abuse of corporate jets and shows that companies are violating the law by misleading investors about it. How did Mark Maremont and Tom McGinty get the story? To analyze... Continue reading
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Organizing via Facebook in the Age of Union-Busting
June 15, 2011 08:18 PM
The New York Times's Steven Greenhouse has an interesting report today on a group of Walmart workers who are organizing—just not in the traditional sense. The vehemently anti-union Walmart crushes any attempt to unionize (at least in the <a... Continue reading
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FT: SEC Investigates a Magnetar Deal
June 15, 2011 12:42 PM
The FT's Kara Scannell scoops that the SEC is investigating a Magnetar CDO deal, probing Merrill Lynch and its handpicked CDO manager Corey Ribotsky, though Magnetar itself apparently isn't being scrutinized. The SEC, which is looking at several... Continue reading
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The Unimportance Lobby (UPDATED)
June 13, 2011 03:31 PM
The New York Times had a good look yesterday at how big financial companies are lobbying Washington to not be labeled "systemically important" by regulators. It kicks off with a nice lede: It is not very often that... Continue reading
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Bloomberg’s Weil Exposes Another Accounting Regulator Coverup
June 10, 2011 07:08 PM
Jonathan Weil has a tough Bloomberg View column about accounting regulators covering up wrongdoing by companies and their auditors. Back in 2006, KPMG let Motorola book a sale in the third quarter. That helped Motorola because without it, the... Continue reading
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AT&T Buys Nonprofit Support for its Anticompetitive Merger
June 10, 2011 03:39 PM
It ought to raise eyebrows when groups like the NAACP, GLAAD, and the nation's largest teachers union lobby to approve a cellphone company merger. Fortunately it does at Politico, which has a good story looking at how AT&T's <a... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Paywall Protection, News Corp. Scandal Widens, Goldman and Libya
June 9, 2011 07:49 PM
Ken Doctor has a good post over at Nieman Journalism Lab on the Walter Hussman Theorem, which is that you can stanch or even reverse the decline of your print paper by not giving it away free online.... Continue reading
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The Fed, Still Oracular in the Post-Greenspan Era
June 9, 2011 03:54 PM
Ben Bernanke gave a speech the other day, saying that... well... he said some thing or another, according to the papers. The Wall Street Journal's headline says the Bernank is gloomy: Fed Sees Recovery Lagging Bernanke Says Growth Slower... Continue reading
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Walmart’s Unions
June 9, 2011 12:38 PM
It's well known that Walmart is viciously anti-union. It's not much known is that the company is much more accomodative to organized labor in other countries that have more labor-friendly policies. The Washington Post is good to report on... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Poor Wall Street, Our Lost Decade, Parallel Universe
June 8, 2011 07:46 PM
Reading this Wall Street Journal story, you'd think that Wall Street had fallen on hard times: Morgan Stanley offered a glimpse into Wall Street's future, and the outlook has changed so much from the heady days of the past... Continue reading
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WaPo Shows Geithner Pushed Austerity
June 8, 2011 02:39 PM
You can sense a surge in criticism of the Obama administration coming, both from within and from former members of Obama's economic team—something not unexpected as the rats see the ship start to sink again. Here's a speech Christina... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: News Corp. Coverup Continues, Guinness Record for Sellouts, AOL/HuffPo
June 7, 2011 07:58 PM
The New York Times reports on the latest from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation phone hacking scandal and coverup. The news is that News has formally apologized to actress Sienna Miller as part of a $164,000 settlement for hacking into... Continue reading
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Delaying the Dodd-Frank Rules
June 7, 2011 01:33 PM
Planet Money's Jacob Goldstein makes a great catch this morning, noting that The Wall Street Journal and New York Times have stories about Wall Street and the delayed installation of Dodd-Frank regulations, but that "they tell very different stories... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Sun-Times Daley Probe, CanadaCare Myths, Off the News
June 7, 2011 12:41 AM
The Chicago Sun-Times has a dandy investigation today reporting that the son of former Mayor Richard Daley made skads of money when the city signed a deal for wifi service in the city's airports. To make matters worse, the... Continue reading
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Goldman’s WSJ Score
June 6, 2011 02:49 PM
Goldman Sachs displays some savvy PR in getting The Wall Street Journal to go big with a story about it pushing back against the Levin-Coburn report. The paper scoops that Goldman is "considering" putting out documents that contradict key... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Lehman, Off the Hook; Foreclosure Scandal; Bloomberg Snooze
June 3, 2011 05:23 PM
Bloomberg News scoops that the fearsome SEC is going to let top executives from Lehman Brothers off the hook without so much as a wrist slap. Instead, it will give them a "public rebuke." Well, that ought to disincent... Continue reading
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A Pulled Scoop Shows U.S. Fought to Keep Haitian Wages Down (UPDATED)
June 3, 2011 01:06 PM
The Nation has a scoop—or had, actually—from Wikileaks cables showing that the Obama administration pressured Haiti not to raise its minimum wage to 61 cents an hour, or five bucks a day. The magazine posted the story the other day... Continue reading
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Four Ws From the WSJ
June 2, 2011 06:41 PM
The Wall Street Journal messes up a story atop its Marketplace section today that reports that a judge ordered American Airlines to make its flights available on Orbitz. Here's the top: American Airlines must make its flights available... Continue reading
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CPI Shows Some Credit Unions Gouging Customers, Payday Lender-Style
June 2, 2011 01:17 PM
The Center for Public Integrity's Ben Hallman has an excellent investigation at iWatch News exposing how some credit unions are getting into the payday lending game. He reports their regulator, the National Credit Union Administration, is encouraging them to... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Ellison’s Battle of the Bay View, Biovail Blues, Liz Warren’s “Cult”
June 1, 2011 08:25 PM
What does the fifth richest man in the world do when the neighbors' trees spoil the view of San Francisco Bay he enjoys from his 11,000 square foot mansion, one of six homes in his portfolio? The Wall Street Journal... Continue reading

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