WSJ on Harry Markopolos’ Whistleblowing Shell Companies

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 3, 2011 at 12:04 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting scoop this morning on a lawsuit accusing banks of gouging pensioners and... More

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

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 2, 2011 at 07:34 PM

The New York Times has another interesting story on News Corporation and its hacking scandal, this time reporting on a... More

Leonhardt’s Good Look at the Corporate Tax Landscape

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 2, 2011 at 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... More

Audit Notes: Hamster Wheel Manifesto, Shorts and the Bubble, Economy Picks Up

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 1, 2011 at 07:58 PM

Business Insider got hold of an AOL document laying out the company's "master plan" for its content farm. I think... More

Bloomberg News Pops the Meredith Whitney Bubble

The analyst can’t back up key 60 Minutes assertions that worsened a muni-bond panic

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 1, 2011 at 01:50 PM

Bloomberg News lands some real blows on analyst Meredith Whitney in a terrific story this morning. Whitney, famously—or infamously—went on... More

Audit Notes: WSJ on BP, U.S. Props Up Egypt’s Mubarak, NFL Subsidies

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 31, 2011 at 08:24 PM

The Wall Street Journal continues to lead on the BP disaster. It reported this weekend on emails showing that land-based... More

Just How Anti-Gay Marriage is That Chikin?

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 31, 2011 at 07:36 PM

The New York Times' story in yesterday's paper about the Southern chicken chain Chick-fil-A leaves much to be desired. Here's... More

Bloomberg Talks to a Cassandra at Davos

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 31, 2011 at 12:56 PM

I really like how Bloomberg puts together this story on a financial consultant warning the end is nigh from the... More

Audit Notes: Politico’s Goldman PR, ProPublica Vindicated, Mark to Myth

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 28, 2011 at 06:06 PM

The Huffington Post's Peter S. Goodman points to a bizarre report in Politico this morning: Much was made of a... More

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission FAIL

Mostly lackluster coverage of a lackluster report

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 28, 2011 at 01:35 PM

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released its report yesterday and the press play indicates that it's either an utter failure... More

Audit Notes: Baffled Wall Street Historians, Too Much Demand, Deficits to Shrink

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 27, 2011 at 09:28 PM

Here's your Quote of the Day, from The New York Times's story on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission report. Wall... More

Fact Checking the Fact Checkers

PolitiFact is half right on two State of the Union truth-o-meters

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 27, 2011 at 11:08 AM

Commenter James asked me to take a look at a couple of verdicts from PolitiFact on the State of the... More

The NYT Melts the Right’s Anti-Labor Snow Job

All but wiping out propaganda about sanitation workers’ supposed slowdown

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 26, 2011 at 07:20 PM

The New York Times unloads a devastating story about the alleged New York City snowplow slowdown that became a big... More

The Times’s Fluffy Coverage of the State of the Union

A poor show that amplifies Obama’s public-relations spiel

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 26, 2011 at 11:47 AM

Did The New York Times really need to lead its page one with a two-column, three-line headline about a pedestrian... More

Audit Notes: FCIC Report, Reuters Talking Points, WSJ Sues

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 25, 2011 at 08:07 PM

The New York Times gets hold of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission report first and it seems somewhat promising. Here's... More

Ezra Klein’s Flawed Assumptions on Trade With China

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 25, 2011 at 07:11 PM

Ezra Klein accepts some unfortunate assumptions in his Washington Post column on trade yesterday morning. Let's start with this one:... More

Insurer Alleges Fraud by Bear Stearns and JPMorgan

Selling a “sack of shit” and then demanding money back while denying investors theirs

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 25, 2011 at 11:49 AM

Bloomberg News has a story of the day, reporting that JPMorgan Chase/Bear Stearns is being sued by the insurance company... More

Audit Notes: Crisis Panel Has Teeth?, Mortgage Fraud, Corporate Size

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 24, 2011 at 08:44 PM

Shahien Nasiripour of The Huffington Post scoops that the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission may just have some impact after all:... More

Resistance Is Futile for Alabama’s White Collar Criminals

The Journal takes an excellent look at tough state regulator Joseph Borg

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 24, 2011 at 01:36 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a superb Money & Investing profile this morning of an Alabama securities regulator who makes... More

Don’t Forget Massey Energy’s Long History of Violations

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 21, 2011 at 08:54 PM

Federal investigators' preliminary report is out on the April coal mine explosion that killed 29 West Virginia miners. Was it... More