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1. The Audit

   Audit Notes: GOP gold bugs, too big to fail, Niall Ferguson

   August 28, 2012 06:50 AM

   The Republicans have put the gold standard (or at least a commission to study the idea) back in their party's platform. Paul Krugman writes about why this is nuts: There is a remarkably widespread view that at least gold... Continue reading

2. The Audit

   Audit Notes: China slows, Romney’s taxes, copyright

   August 27, 2012 06:50 AM

   The New York Times looks at a glut of goods clogging up Chinese warehouses—an ominous sign for the global economy: Problems in China give some economists nightmares in which, in the worst case, the United States and much of... Continue reading

3. The Audit

   WaPo dings the ‘give-it-away-free approach’

   August 24, 2012 06:50 AM

   There's all kinds of irony about the Washington Post slapping a company for a "give-it-away-free approach" that has hurt share prices. There's the fact that the WaPo once had an option to buy 10 percent of this extremely... Continue reading

4. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Gawker’s Bain scoop, file sharing and record sales, Niall Ferguson

   August 24, 2012 01:55 AM

   Gawker's John Cook got hold of 950 pages of confidential Bain Capital documents related to Mitt Romney and put them online, writing that, "The documents are exceedingly complicated. We don't pretend to be qualified to decode them in full,... Continue reading

5. The Audit

   The New Yorker on Obama as fundraiser (UPDATED)

   August 23, 2012 11:00 AM

   It's hard to read Jane Mayer's New Yorker piece on campaign fundraising without thinking about how embarrassing and corrupting it is that our system expects the president of the United States to suck up to big shots so he... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   Required skimming: Euro crisis

   August 22, 2012 06:50 AM

   This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Martin Wolf: The Financial... Continue reading

7. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Newsweek standards, Luddite fallacy, crowdfunding scams

   August 22, 2012 06:50 AM

   Paul Krugman asks: We know what Ferguson is going to do: he’s going to brazen it out, actually boasting about the deftness with which he misled his readers. But what is Newsweek going to do? Not much, apparently. Dylan... Continue reading

8. The Audit

   Newsweek’s Niall Ferguson debacle

   August 21, 2012 11:00 AM

   It's been a long time since I've seen a cover story so comprehensively demolished as Newsweek's disengenuous anti-Obama piece by Harvard's Niall Ferguson, who puts together a greatest-hits compilation of the right's economic smears of the past three-plus years.... Continue reading

9. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Fake or real Jeff Jarvis?, Wolf on Ryan, robots and labor

   August 21, 2012 06:50 AM

   This may seem like a Fake Jeff Jarvis post, but it's real-life Jeff Jarvis: Creators don’t need protection from copying. That’s futile. Copying can’t be stopped. Thus copying is no longer a way to exploit the value of... Continue reading

10. The Audit

    Misleading and incomplete coverage of Apple’s ‘record’ value (CORRECTED)

    August 20, 2012 02:06 PM

    The big market news today is about Apple's gargantuan market capitalization reaching a new, stunning high: Bloomberg News: Apple Becomes Biggest Company in History, Passing Microsoft in 1999 CNNMoney: Apple is now the most valuable company of all... Continue reading

11. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Newspapers v. Postal Service, student debt, taxes

    August 20, 2012 11:00 AM

    The newspaper industry's situation is already apocalyptic, but the Associated Press reports it could be about to get worse. The AP says that a possible postal-service deal with a junk-mail advertiser has the newspaper industry up in arms. Newspapers... Continue reading

12. The Audit

    SmartMoney is confused on wages, inflation

    August 17, 2012 06:50 AM

    This SmartMoney post on "Why You're Not Getting a Raise" doesn't make sense. The lede: Didn’t get a raise this year? Blame inflation. Hmm, I'd blame the weak economy and excess supply of labor before inflation, which seems more... Continue reading

13. The Audit

    The WSJ editorial page and Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan

    August 16, 2012 11:06 AM

    The Wall Street Journal editorial board's Joseph Rago makes a whopper of an error in a column Tuesday extolling Paul Ryan's plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program that probably wouldn't cover the cost of old folks'... Continue reading

14. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Bill Black on CNBC, LAT eyes Ryan’s budget, robosigning

    August 16, 2012 02:44 AM

    Bill Black goes on CNBC and shreds Maria Bartiromo and Bethany McLean on whether Goldman Sachs (and others) could and should have been prosecuted for fraud related to the financial crisis: Continue reading

15. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Romney’s taxes, NBC’s win, turning off the Web

    August 15, 2012 06:50 AM

    Joe Nocera writes about the sharp choice facing voters in November, and so it is. But this strikes me as a wrongheaded sentiment for a journalist to have (emphasis mine): Ever since the campaign entered the postprimary, preconvention phase,... Continue reading

16. The Audit

    A critical eye on the ‘skills gap’

    August 14, 2012 06:50 AM

    There's no shortage of uncritical reporting on the notion that employers, and particularly manufacturers, can't find enough qualified workers even in a time of high unemployment. Last week, even the auto industry was complaining about not being... Continue reading

17. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Romney’s Ryan taxes, FDR or Ayn Rand, Morton Mintz

    August 14, 2012 01:56 AM

    The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien has the best snap financial analysis of Mitt Romney's pick of Paul Ryan as a running mate, reporting that "Under Paul Ryan's plan, Mitt Romney wouldn't pay any taxes for the next ten years --... Continue reading

18. The Audit

    CNNMoney can’t find the workers, either

    August 13, 2012 06:50 AM

    Now it's CNNMoney's turn to spread the "can't find workers" meme. The headline reads "Northeast Indiana: Hundreds of factory jobs go unfilled." There's the counterintuitive top that talks about how even in a recession with high unemployment, manufacturers can't... Continue reading

19. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Google moves on copyright, The Daily Shoe, Olympics

    August 10, 2012 09:28 PM

    Google will finally begin to penalize pirate sites in its search algorithm. What took so long? The Wall Street Journal is very good to put this context up high: The move comes as Google itself is attempting to become... Continue reading

20. The Audit

    False balance on Romney’s bogus welfare reform attack

    August 10, 2012 03:00 PM

    This Financial Times coverage of Mitt Romney's false attack on an Obama administration move on welfare reform is a classic example of the kind of he said-she said journalism that leaves readers throwing up their hands at all... Continue reading

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