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1. The Audit

   MIT Bloggers and Sorkin Take Down a Derivatives Study

   February 15, 2011 12:45 PM

   Andrew Ross Sorkin has a good column this morning exposing yet another misleading campaign affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce. A Chamber-backed group commissioned a report from an outfit called Keybridge Research to show that derivatives legislation would cost... Continue reading

2. The Audit

   AOL’s HuffPo Premium Doesn’t Mean Much For the NYT

   February 14, 2011 06:11 PM

   Frederic Filloux has some harsh criticism of The Huffington Post's business model, calling it "a digital sandcastle." But what caught my eye was this at the bottom of his piece: What ailing AOL bought is vapor. About 35% of... Continue reading

3. The Audit

   The HBGary Federal Scandal

   February 14, 2011 03:15 PM

   I asked the press on Friday to quickly get on the disturbing story of HBGary Federal et al on Friday. So let me tip my cap to The New York Times, which wrote a news story about it... Continue reading

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   Audit Notes: HBGary Federal, Bank CEOs Stock Sales, Adam Gopnik

   February 11, 2011 09:42 PM

   This is one of the more disturbing stories I've read in a while. So far, no one in the mainstream press has touched it with the exception of Forbes's Andy Greenberg. That needs to change quickly. ThinkProgress reports... Continue reading

5. The Audit

   Amazon Bolts Texas’s “Unfavorable Regulatory Environment”

   February 11, 2011 02:07 PM

   The Associated Press report that Amazon is closing its Texas warehouse due to—and this is a direct Amazon quote—the state's "unfavorable regulatory environment." That farcical statement, made by an exec in an email to employees leaked to the AP,... Continue reading

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   Audit Notes: NFL Hell, No Inflation Here, Fraud Without Fraudsters

   February 10, 2011 08:56 PM

   Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post has the column of the week, a righteous piece of outrage at the NFL and what it says about our society. I don't know about you, but I don't want to live in... Continue reading

7. The Audit

   NYT Reports Bear Stearns Wasn’t Alone on Putbacks

   February 10, 2011 02:50 PM

   The New York Times has a very good look today at what the Ambac lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase could mean in continuing to unravel the sordid CDO story. Remember that suit was unsealed two weeks ago and revealed... Continue reading

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   Audit Notes: Toxic Assets, Foreclosure Mills, SEC (Finally) Looking at CDOs

   February 10, 2011 12:20 AM

   What ever happened to that pile of toxic assets that the banks were sitting on? Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Rapoport took a look at that the other day. But banks still hold plenty of the bad assets... Continue reading

9. The Audit

   The Twitter, Facebook, Groupon, Huffington Post Bubble

   February 9, 2011 11:05 PM

   Still think there's not a Web 2.0 bubble going on? The Wall Street Journal reports tonight that Twitter is now valued at between $8 billion and $10 billion. Twitter is the massively popular communication network that doesn't have a... Continue reading

10. The Audit

    Bloomberg and BusinessWeek’s Problematic WikiLeaks Story

    February 9, 2011 07:02 PM

    How many red flags can we count in this Bloomberg BusinessWeek piece on WikiLeaks? First there's the headline: Is Wikileaks Hacking For Secrets? I, like my colleague Lauren Kirchner, have a real problem with question headlines, which seem... Continue reading

11. The Audit

    The “Can’t Find Workers” Meme Hits Germany

    February 9, 2011 03:15 AM

    If there's an oh-so-contrarian thesis that really grates right now, it's the one that businesses just can't seem to find workers, despite the fact that millions of people are out of work. The "can't find workers" thing has become something... Continue reading

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    Playing Politics With Mr. Market

    February 8, 2011 08:26 PM

    There's a long and boring history of hacks, typically on the right, blaming or crediting presidents for whatever the stock market happens to be doing at the moment. The press falls for it, too, sometimes. But the mark of... Continue reading

13. The Audit

    Bloomberg Markets Finds the Rich Taking From the Poor

    February 8, 2011 11:52 AM

    Bloomberg Markets has a terrific investigation into how a federal program meant to spur redevelopment in poor areas is funneling taxpayer money to luxury projects and Big Finance. David Dietz's anecdotal lede encapsulates the story, showing that the New... Continue reading

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    Audit Notes: A Disney Delivery, Tribes and Payday Loans, HuffPo/AOL

    February 7, 2011 06:57 PM

    The New York Times reports that Disney is trying to capitalize on the massive baby market by infiltrating the hospital immediately after birth: In this new venture, the company gains access to the maternity hospitals through a company called... Continue reading

15. The Audit

    The Huffington Post’s Tainted Money

    February 7, 2011 05:12 PM

    Say what you will about Arianna Huffington's decision to sell out to AOL—and we will below—she's no dummy. Of the $315 million price tag, $300 million of it is in cold hard cash. Just $15 million is in flimsy AOL... Continue reading

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    Bloomberg Examines Louisiana’s Laissez-Faire Oil Regulators

    February 4, 2011 12:13 PM

    Bloomberg has an excellent investigation into Louisiana's oil regulators, finding that the state fines oil companies for oil spill less than 1 percent of the time over the last five years. Unfortunately, I can't find the story on the Web.... Continue reading

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    Audit Notes: It’s Wall Street’s Deficit, Dimon Steps In It, Red-Faced Mortgage Bankers

    February 3, 2011 07:45 PM

    Simon Johnson looks at the "Ruinous Fiscal Impact of Big Banks" over at The New York Times's Economix blog: First, if you regulate us, we’ll move to other countries. And second, the public policy priority should not be banks... Continue reading

18. The Audit

    WSJ on Harry Markopolos’ Whistleblowing Shell Companies

    February 3, 2011 12:04 PM

    The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting scoop this morning on a lawsuit accusing banks of gouging pensioners and state governments on foreign-exchange trades. This lawsuit has whistleblowers, shell companies in Delaware formed to profit on the suits,... Continue reading

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    Audit Notes: Hacked Off Tabs, A Mirage Economy, Wall Street’s Record Pay

    February 2, 2011 07:34 PM

    The New York Times has another interesting story on News Corporation and its hacking scandal, this time reporting on a lawsuit that claims News of the World stole a scoop from two competitors by hacking a flack's phone. Fun... Continue reading

20. The Audit

    Leonhardt’s Good Look at the Corporate Tax Landscape

    February 2, 2011 06:27 PM

    David Leonhardt gives us a nice roundup of the corporate-tax issue, which you're bound to be hearing a lot more about this year as Obama continues his move toward business interests. Said business community loves to mislead people about... Continue reading

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