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

Pearlstein: On China Trade, an Eye for an Eye

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 21, 2011 at 12:09 PM

Of all the commentary this week on China, none got to the heart of the problem anywhere near as well... More

Audit Notes: The Too Big to Fail Get Bigger, News Corp. Scandal, FT on Fire

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 19, 2011 at 09:56 PM

The Huffington Post reports that the Obama administration, far from splitting up the too-big-to-fail banks, will allow them to get... More

Yet Again, Fannie and Freddie Didn’t Do It

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Michael Hudson writes one of the most convincing Fannie and Freddie Didn't Do It pieces yet. Actually, my soundbite isn't... More

Audit Notes: Bad Times with FINRA, Apple, and Co-bylines

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 18, 2011 at 08:58 PM

The New York Times's DealBook drops a beat sweetener profiling the new head of FINRA, that toothless in-house regulator of... More

The Dead Source Who Keeps on Giving

Fortune joins the WSJ in putting Jerome York on the record after his death

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 18, 2011 at 06:53 PM

Back in March, I noticed The Wall Street Journal appearing to burn an off-the-record source a few days after he... More

The NYT Tosses Off a Paywall Story

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 18, 2011 at 11:10 AM

The New York Times has a brief report today raising hopes about the prospects of a pay model for newspapers.... More

Audit Notes: Beer Buys Off the ‘Burg?, Apple As Bully, Bank Propaganda

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 14, 2011 at 09:09 PM

This New York Times story, which reports that residents of Brooklyn's Williamsburg protested a Duane Reade chain store coming into... More

The Groupon Bubble

NYT reports Wall Street pitching a $15 billion to $20 billion debut

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM

If you doubted, even after Facebook's recent $50 billion valuation, that there's a mini-bubble inflating in tech land, this morning's... More

Audit Notes: Financial Capture, Homeless, Amy Chua Criticizes WSJ

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 13, 2011 at 08:09 PM

Simon Johnson notes something big that Goldman Sachs dances around in its report on its internal culture released this week... More

Remapping the Debate on China’s Industrial Policy

Our rival has one. Where’s ours?

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 13, 2011 at 04:27 PM

Remapping Debate has an interesting piece on how the U.S. finds itself at the mercy of the Chinese for a... More

Audit Notes: Mortgage Servicers, Ghost Mall—China Style; The Joneses

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 13, 2011 at 11:53 AM

Andy Kroll of Mother Jones takes a look (UPDATE: took a look, I should say. This story is from a... More

The SEC’s Khuzami and That Citigroup Settlement

An anonymous letter adds to questions about a wrist slap

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 12, 2011 at 01:19 PM

Bloomberg News reported on Monday that the SEC's inspector general is investigating Robert Khuzami, its chief enforcement official, after getting... More

WSJ Spotlights Wage Declines of the Laid Off

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 11, 2011 at 08:41 PM

The Wall Street Journal is excellent today with this front-page examination of what the recession is doing to wages of... More

Bloomberg News Oversells and Underperforms on Toyota’s Decline

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 11, 2011 at 02:38 PM

Bloomberg News has a good idea to do a step-back on Toyota and how it's faring a year after its... More