CPI Shows Some Credit Unions Gouging Customers, Payday Lender-Style

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 2, 2011 at 01:17 PM

The Center for Public Integrity's Ben Hallman has an excellent investigation at iWatch News exposing how some credit unions are... More

Audit Notes: Ellison’s Battle of the Bay View, Biovail Blues, Liz Warren’s “Cult”

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 1, 2011 at 08:25 PM

What does the fifth richest man in the world do when the neighbors' trees spoil the view of San Francisco... More

NYT: Fabulous Fab Pointed Fingers at Goldman

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 1, 2011 at 01:16 PM

Louise Story and Gretchen Morgenson raise a good question in their agenda-setting piece in The New York Times this morning:... More

Audit Notes: WSJ Calls Out AT&T; Goldman and Qaddafi; Banks Hit the Road

By Ryan Chittum   May 31, 2011 at 11:45 PM

I wish more papers would do what The Wall Street Journal does today in its story about antitrust concerns over... More

Bloomberg’s Thin “Made in the USA” Story

Marketers run amok on a luxury manufacturing renaissance

By Ryan Chittum   May 31, 2011 at 12:58 PM

This Bloomberg News story on luxury brands waving the red, white, and blue leaves much to be desired. First, it's... More

Audit Notes: Saudis Blame Wall Street, Made in the U.S., Victims’ Big Haircut

By Ryan Chittum   May 27, 2011 at 08:07 PM

This is very interesting: Kevin G. Hall of McClatchy reports on some Wikileaks cables that show the Saudis telling the... More

Zombie Lie Laboratory Creates 62 Percent Tax Rate Plan

The Wall Street Journal editorial page at work

By Ryan Chittum   May 27, 2011 at 02:31 PM

Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal editorial board hacks out an instant classic on how to mislead people with... More

Elizabeth Warren Is Smeared, and the Press Is Along for the Ride

McHenry controversy shows the media copping out with he said-she said stories

By Ryan Chittum   May 27, 2011 at 11:29 AM

You'd think the press could resist the he said-she said copy when the truth is easy to discern. Congressman Patrick... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg Blues, Weil Audits Goldman’s Board, Does Not Compute

By Ryan Chittum   May 26, 2011 at 07:54 PM

Slate's Jack Shafer shreds Bloomberg View, the new Bloomberg editorial page. He writes, "I'd rather go blind than look at... More

Bloomberg Ferrets Out New Details on the Fed’s Bailouts

By Ryan Chittum   May 26, 2011 at 01:43 PM

There were so many bailouts going on in 2008 that Congress apparently forgot about some of them. Bloomberg gets a... More

Audit Notes: Marketers’ Memories, Labor’s Last Legs, Fortune in Afghanistan

By Ryan Chittum   May 25, 2011 at 07:44 PM

Over at Wired, Jonah Lehrer looks at how marketers invade our heads: A new study, published in The Journal of... More

How to Corner the Oil Market

CFTC suit says traders manipulated crude prices in 2008; revisiting a Journal piece

By Ryan Chittum   May 25, 2011 at 02:56 PM

The papers all play up the big news that Commodity Futures Trading Commission lawsuit is accusing three companies of helping... More

Audit Notes: Insider Trading on the Hill, Taibbi, Deficit vs. Jobs Coverage

By Ryan Chittum   May 24, 2011 at 08:11 PM

Dan Froomkin of The Huffington Post reports on some very interesting research finding that the investment portfolios of members of... More

WaPo Pulls Up Short On Trade and Tariffs

By Ryan Chittum   May 24, 2011 at 02:12 PM

The Washington Post looks at what happens when the U.S. actually fights low-priced Chinese imports with tariffs: The factories move... More

Audit Notes: Investigators Eye the Wall Street Mortgage Machine

By Ryan Chittum   May 23, 2011 at 08:19 PM

After years of going nowhere, the investigation of the Wall Street securitization machine behind the financial crisis is finally showing... More

Outsourcing Investigations to the Suspects

The Washington Post looks at how the SEC lets companies probe themselves

By Ryan Chittum   May 23, 2011 at 12:48 PM

If you're a watchdog/government regulator and you suspect a company of committing crimes, it's probably not the best idea to... More

Audit Notes: The Massey Report, Objectivity Comics, The Ultrawealthy

By Ryan Chittum   May 20, 2011 at 08:06 PM

Here are the ledes from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times stories this morning on the Massey... More

WNYC On Welfare for the Well-to-Do in the Bronx

By Ryan Chittum   May 20, 2011 at 02:42 PM

Talk about an emblem of welfare for rich folks: Parking garages built for the New York Yankees to accompany their... More

A HuffPost Scoop, Overlooked By the Mainstream Press

HUD finds big banks defrauded taxpayers, but few follow the story

By Ryan Chittum   May 19, 2011 at 07:43 PM

Shahien Nasiripour scored a foreclosure-fraud scandal scoop for The Huffington Post on Monday, reporting that audits of the mortgage industry... More

LinkedIn Bubble Trouble

How to report (and what not to leave out) on signs of frothiness in Silicon Valley

By Ryan Chittum   May 19, 2011 at 12:20 PM

I've had a bit of a back and forth on Twitter in the last day with Business Insider's Joe Weisenthal,... More