The Wall Street Journal and the Waffle House

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 1, 2011 at 08:17 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a terrific ahed today on the Waffle House and how the company goes all out... More

The Foreclosure Scandal Continues (UPDATED)

American Banker and Reuters show banks thumbing their nose at the law

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 1, 2011 at 01:41 PM

It's clear that the banks aren't much chastened by the foreclosure scandal that erupted last fall and which threatens to... More

Audit Notes: Bank Consolidation, The Depression, Stuart Kuttner

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 31, 2011 at 08:02 PM

Steven Pearlstein comes out against the Capital One/ING merger, which would turn it into the country's fifth biggest bank, with... More

AT&T’s Hubris

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 31, 2011 at 02:48 PM

The Justice Department is suing to stop AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile, which would have consolidated three-quarters of cellphone-plan market... More

Audit Notes: Boyd on Blackboard, Capitalism Lite, BofA Woes

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 30, 2011 at 07:53 PM

There aren't a whole lot of investigative journalists out there covering penny stocks and other small-cap companies. Roddy Boyd does,... More

WSJ Shoe Leather and Privacy Series Pays Off In Libya

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 30, 2011 at 01:16 PM

The Wall Street Journal gets a big scoop today on the ground in Libya, reporting that Western companies helped Qaddafi... More

Audit Notes: Stocks Fed, Stadium Economics, Dumb-Question Headlines

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 29, 2011 at 06:07 PM

Gretchen Morgenson had an interesting quote in her column yesterday riffing off Bloomberg's investigation into $1.2 trillion of Fed bailouts:... More

Audit Notes: Murdoch and American Politicians, UAW, Labor’s Bulletin Board Win

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 26, 2011 at 07:37 PM

Does Rupert Murdoch interfere with his news outlets? Does a bear, well, you know... The Los Angeles Times has an... More

A Good WSJ Scoop on AIG and Wall Street Research

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 26, 2011 at 06:51 PM

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting scoop out today, reporting that AIG CEO Robert Benmosche is leaning on his... More

Audit Notes: A Triple-B Chairman for a Triple-B Company, Stadium Welfare, Euro Crisis

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 25, 2011 at 08:04 PM

New York Daily News publisher and Boston Properties Chairman Mort Zuckerman takes to the op-ed pages of The Wall Street... More

Fortune Inside the Pfizer Fiasco

A deeply reported piece on a management crisis at the giant drug company

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 25, 2011 at 04:40 PM

Fortune has a dandy read in this issue on an executive fiasco at Pfizer that led to the sacking of... More

Audit Notes: Steve Jobs, WSJ on Hacking, NYPD As Domestic CIA

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 24, 2011 at 07:02 PM

Awful news just hit the tape that Steve Jobs's health has finally forced him to resign as CEO of Apple:... More

Capital One Tries to Buy Too Big to Fail Status

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 24, 2011 at 03:29 PM

Capital One is the thirteenth biggest bank in the country, with $200 billion in assets. It's on a buying spree... More

Audit Notes: Students Drop For-Profit Colleges, Foreclosures, Hospital Mergers (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 23, 2011 at 08:39 PM

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting report on the much-deserved business woes hitting the for-profit college industry. Enrollment of... More

The Repatriation Tax Holiday and American Jobs

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 23, 2011 at 03:13 PM

The Washington Post is good to point out that some of the big American companies pushing the government for a... More

Bloomberg News on the Fed’s Secret Mega-TARP

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 22, 2011 at 05:55 PM

Back when our late pal Mark Pittman and Bloomberg sued the Federal Reserve to force it to disclose secret details... More

Audit Notes: Welcome to America, Supercookies, Leon Black’s Blowout

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 19, 2011 at 08:01 PM

It's a national embarrassment when students from places like China, Nigeria, Romania and Ukraine come to the United States for... More

Jon Stewart On Fox’s Reverse Class Warfare

Meantime, the Journal notes leading GOP candidates want to raise taxes… on the poor

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 19, 2011 at 03:48 PM

Yesterday, The Daily Show had one of Jon Stewart's greatest takedowns of Fox News—which is saying something. The jumping-off point... More

Audit Notes: The Milken Memory Hole, The Ax Murder and the NotW, Yahoo

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 19, 2011 at 12:28 AM

Mother Jones's Nick Baumann catches the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press in some poor journalism. A businessman gives... More

News Corp. Buries a Whistleblower

A case study in Rupert Murdoch’s corporate culture

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 18, 2011 at 05:07 PM

What happens when a low-level Rupert Murdoch employee blows the whistle on criminal wrongdoing? He gets harassed and destroyed by... More