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1. The Audit

   Coverage of TBTF Amendment FAIL Fails

   May 7, 2010 04:22 PM

   The Senate voted 61-33 yesterday against the so-called SAFE Banking Act, an amendment to the financial-reform bill that would have required the breakup of the megabanks. The New York Times gives this its own story on B1. The Wall... Continue reading

2. The Audit

   NYT Busts Out the Weasel Words for Stock Crash

   May 7, 2010 10:23 AM

   What the heck happened in the stock markets yesterday? Well, nobody really knows yet. So what do you do when you've got an A1 story to write on an important news event that you don't know much about? Break out... Continue reading

3. The Audit

   Audit Notes: The Market Crashes, The Market Bounces Back

   May 6, 2010 07:29 PM

   Let me give some rare Audit props to CNBC's Jim Cramer for his coverage during the stock-market crash today. As far as I can tell, he was the first one to point out the discrepancies in the Procter & Gamble... Continue reading

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   Audit Notes: Warren v. Dimon, Fudging the Books, REACTionaries

   May 5, 2010 07:52 PM

   Time's Stephen Gandel has a great post on why he can't find anyone to debate Elizabeth Warren on the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency: She'll crush them. This is also the woman that makes Jamie Dimon, the head of... Continue reading

5. The Audit

   Ad Age Shows Paywalls Preserving Print Circulation

   May 5, 2010 04:04 PM

   Advertising Age looks at small-paper paywalls and finds that they're having some success—at least in staving off print declines. I've argued that newspapers have got to charge online one way or another (I favor The Wall... Continue reading

6. The Audit

   Shorter Wall Street Journal: Blankfein’s Days Are Numbered

   May 5, 2010 12:06 PM

   Lloyd Blankfein isn't going to make it. That's basically what this Money & Investing story is saying today. It can't say it, so I will. Some executives and powerful alumni of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are talking about whether... Continue reading

7. The Audit

   Audit Notes: No Perp Walks, How Goldman’s Like Penny-Stock Boiler Rooms, WSJ iPad

   May 4, 2010 10:19 PM

   David Heath of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund takes a good look at how and why executives have so far avoided jailtime and even prosecution in this crisis. Here's a big one (emphasis mine): One explanation for the difference... Continue reading

8. The Audit

   “The Victor and the Vanquished”

   May 4, 2010 02:22 PM

   Reading the Vanity Fair excerpt of Sarah Ellison's upcoming War at The Wall Street Journal, on Rupert Murdoch's takeover of The Wall Street Journal, is, well, dispiriting (and I lived through part of it). Ellison shows in detail how... Continue reading

9. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Bubble Machine, Apple Pushback, Quitting Facebook

   May 3, 2010 09:28 PM

   The Wall Street Journal has a good explainer on how banks like Goldman Sachs used credit-default swaps to fuel the bubble's most dangerous phase: In one case, a $38 million subprime-mortgage bond created in June 2006 ended up in... Continue reading

10. The Audit

    FT Slaps Goldman Spin on Page One

    May 3, 2010 05:55 PM

    The Financial Times goes above the fold on page one today with a story on how "Goldman plans to overhaul practices." Looks all the world like the FT hyped this piece of flackery—and it's dubiously sourced, to boot. Here's... Continue reading

11. The Audit

    Warren Buffett, Talking His Book on Goldman

    May 3, 2010 10:31 AM

    Warren Buffett can tout an investment like any other CEO. And the press can airbrush it as long as it's Buffett doing the talking. Neither of those statements ought to be surprising to business-press readers. But they ought to be... Continue reading

12. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Facebook Abuses Its Network-Effect Advantage, Qs for Goldman, Acropolis Now

    April 30, 2010 03:55 PM

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a timeline of "Facebook's Eroding Privacy" that everybody who uses the site ought to read. Here's how it started off, in 2005: No personal information that you submit to Thefacebook will be available to... Continue reading

13. The Audit

    WSJ Now Resembling Small-Town Weekly

    April 30, 2010 12:45 PM

    The Wall Street Journal launched its New York City section this week amidst a slew of newspaper-war headlines as Rupert Murdoch took aim at the hated New York Times by reconstituting the defunct 13,000 circulation New York Sun.... Continue reading

14. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Goldman’s Junk Heap, Settlement?, Reuters’ Junk Heap

    April 29, 2010 08:34 PM

    The New York Times DealBook blog had an excellent post yesterday on "The Goldman E-mails, or How to Sell Junk." Why didn't this one make the paper? It shows Goldman actively offloading its toxic waste onto unsuspecting clients. Here's... Continue reading

15. The Audit

    Raise Your Right Hand, Boss

    April 29, 2010 06:50 PM

    Bloomberg gets a bigtime scoop from a former Lehman in-house lawyer who says Dick Fuld lied to Congress about how much money he made—and that Lehman lied to investors for years about how much it was paying its executives:... Continue reading

16. The Audit

    NYT vs. WSJ on Goldman’s Lobbying Clout

    April 29, 2010 09:47 AM

    Is Goldman Sachs still feared and courted in the halls of power or is it "spurned"? We get two opposite stories from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times this morning on the firm (an Audit funder). Here's... Continue reading

17. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Martin Wolf, Radical; Tom Frank and SEC Porn; Apple At It Again on Cartoons

    April 28, 2010 07:54 PM

    When somebody like Martin Wolf is forced to become the radical, you know we've got problems. His always must-read FT column today argues in its inimitable way that "cautious reform is the risky option." Wolf wants no part... Continue reading

18. The Audit

    The Goldman Hearing Coverage

    April 28, 2010 06:24 PM

    Much of the insta-commentary on the congressional hearings yesterday suggested that they were pretty much a wash for Goldman Sachs (legally, not PR-wise). But The Wall Street Journal went the other way this morning with a smart story on... Continue reading

19. The Audit

    Bloomberg Scoop Has Implications for Geithner, Ex-Goldman Chair

    April 28, 2010 02:46 PM

    Yow! Bloomberg Markets breaks some major news today in a magazine profile of TARP Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky, who says his investigation of New York Federal Reserve, then headed by Tim Geithner, "could result in criminal or civil... Continue reading

20. The Audit

    Headline of the Year (So Far)

    April 28, 2010 08:53 AM

    Sometimes you just have to step back and admire the New York Post. Today is one of those days. Its front-page headline on the Goldman Sachs hearings? Note how the paper uses symbols to fill in for... Continue reading

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