NYT: Merrill’s CDO Self Dealing Kept the Bubble Going

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 10, 2010 at 11:42 AM

The late Mark Pittman told me this a year and a half ago about the fraud at the heart of... More

Audit Notes: Poor Employers, Unions Matter, SEC Claws

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 10, 2010 at 02:42 AM

Are employers really having a tough time finding people to hire in this economy? The New York Times claimed that... More

The Economist’s Success Is Not a Marketing Story

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 9, 2010 at 11:17 AM

It's a miserable time for the press, so it's somewhat annoying to see The New York Times's take this morning... More

Audit Notes: Spruced Up Reform, HAMP Failure, Cramdown

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 5, 2010 at 02:06 PM

David Weidner nails it with a piece on financial reform. I'm glad someone else agrees with me on this: Financial... More

Audit Notes: What They Know, Taleb and Blinder, No FDR

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 4, 2010 at 08:40 PM

The Wall Street Journal prints the third installment to its excellent What They Know series, this one on how data... More

The Newsweek Numbers

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 4, 2010 at 07:55 PM

If you want to see why the business model of the so-called legacy media is screwed, look no further than... More

MoJo Muckrakes the Foreclosure Sweatshops

The old predatory lending practices now used to take from homeowners

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 4, 2010 at 02:42 PM

Mother Jones has the must-read of the week: A superb investigation by Andy Kroll into one of the nation's biggest... More

Audit Notes: KKR Tax Avoidance, Manufacturing Politics, Freelancing

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 3, 2010 at 08:51 PM

Fortune's Allan Sloan has a good column this week examining how Henry Kravis of KKR and others in the private-equity... More

The Journal Is Mixed on Deutsche Bank Conflicts

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 3, 2010 at 02:37 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a long page-one look at Deutsche Bank and how it played both sides of the... More

Audit Notes: Brits on America, Credit Cards and Subprime, Interchange

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 2, 2010 at 08:14 PM

Edward Luce of the Financial Times on Saturday had one of the better stories I've read lately on the plight... More

WSJ Turns Over the Privacy Rock Online

An excellent investigation shows the alarming amount of info Web sites collect about you

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 2, 2010 at 03:13 PM

The Wall Street Journal kicked off a series on online privacy this weekend with outstanding coverage of how the ad... More

Audit Notes: Illiquid Lehman, Drumbeat.org, Markets Rule

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 30, 2010 at 07:58 PM

The blogger Economics of Contempt writes that Lehman misrepresented its liquidity in the days before it failed: It's disappointing that... More

The SEC Slaps Citi for Concealing $43 Billion in Toxic Assets

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 30, 2010 at 07:34 PM

So Citigroup misleads investors in 2007 about tens of billions of dollars of subprime assets it would eventually take huge... More

WSJ Buries Wylys Story, Ignores GOP Angle

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 30, 2010 at 03:54 PM

The SEC is charging the billionaire Wyly brothers with a massive fraud involving $550 million in ill-gotten gains from a... More

Audit Notes: Obama, Labor Buster; BP Board’s Blame; Google Pollution

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 29, 2010 at 08:24 PM

The Washington Post had a good story last week looking at the striking disparities between autoworkers who were on the... More

BP Defines Deviancy Down

The national press is slow off the mark on the huge oil spill in Michigan

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 29, 2010 at 07:24 PM

The national press stuffs a big story today on a massive new oil spill in the Kalamazoo River. Size, of... More

WSJ Looks at the Overdraft Bottom Feeders

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 29, 2010 at 09:59 AM

The Wall Street Journal is terrific this morning to throw the spotlight on the seedy cottage industry that feeds off... More

Audit Notes: Moody’s Market, Revolving Door, Tables Turned on Zuck

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 28, 2010 at 07:13 PM

Kevin Hall of McClatchy has a great scoop on Moody's CEO's suspiciously timed stock sales. In one case, CEO Ray... More

Yglesias and McArdle Miss on Interchange Fees

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 28, 2010 at 05:46 PM

Matt Yglesias is defending the interchange industry, which transfers money from the poor to the rich—all through hidden fees. Once... More

Apple’s Controlling Instincts Hit Time and SI

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 28, 2010 at 01:57 PM

The Wall Street Journal's approach to charging the iPad has been the smartest of any of the media. The Journal... More