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1. The Audit

   Reuters Is Excellent in Digging Up a Health Insurer’s Tactics

   March 17, 2010 05:28 PM

   Reuters has an eye-opening investigation today showing how the health-insurance company Assurant Health (formerly called Fortis) systematically targeted sick patients for "rescission"—where insurers pick expensive customers and find technicalities to dump them. A computer program and algorithm targeted every... Continue reading

2. The Audit

   WSJ on a New Municipal “Move Your Money” Push

   March 17, 2010 10:41 AM

   The Wall Street Journal has an excellent story this morning on a nascent trend among municipalities to put their money in small local banks—and to get tough with the big ones. It's the Move Your Money campaign for... Continue reading

3. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Battle of NYC, Fed, Complexity, Big Mac Subsidies

   March 16, 2010 08:38 PM

   About the last thing we need now is a newspaper war, but Rupert Murdoch is Rupert Murdoch, so here we go. Crain's New York looks at the looming Battle for New York, for which the air war has already... Continue reading

4. The Audit

   Leeway for Lehman Brothers

   March 16, 2010 10:33 AM

   I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that John Carney thinks "We Should Not Criminally Prosecute Lehman Executives." After all, this is someone who is a fan of insider trading, which he says "harms no one" and ought to... Continue reading

5. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Strong Leder, Online Ads, CNBC Deathmatch

   March 15, 2010 07:38 PM

   — The Wall Street Journal has a very good leder today looking at how the dearth of credit is crimping the economy, prolonging any recovery. This is just a super well done piece by Mark Whitehouse, threading the prospects... Continue reading

6. The Audit

   Blogs Beat the Press on the Lehman Brothers Scandal

   March 15, 2010 04:20 PM

   And just like that the Lehman Brothers scandal drops off the front pages. And not just the front pages—the section fronts, too. Say, we just learned about a $50 billion fraud on Thursday. Think there might be some newsworthy... Continue reading

7. The Audit

   Michael Lewis Drops Some Wisdom on Wall Street

   March 15, 2010 04:44 AM

   I haven't read Michael Lewis's sure-to-be blockbuster The Big Short yet, but everybody ought to watch his appearance on 60 Minutes last night. The big news I guess would be that Lewis thinks Wall Street is "so disconnected from American... Continue reading

8. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Google “Grandeur,” Toxic Pet, Stop the Presses?

   March 12, 2010 05:28 PM

   Valleywag's Ryan Tate hammers Google about its "Six Delusions of Grandeur." Tate points to this stunning quote in Fortune from CEO Eric Schmidt: "All this information that you have about us... Does that scare everyone in this room?"... Continue reading

9. The Audit

   The Lehman Scandal Breaks Wide Open

   March 12, 2010 01:38 PM

   Will Repo 105 be the Chewco and JEDI of this crisis, and are we finally about to see some people on Wall Street go to jail? Yesterday's blockbuster 2,200 page report on Lehman Brothers by a court-appointed examiner shows... Continue reading

10. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Investigative Budgets, Cable BS, The Audit Outsourced

    March 11, 2010 09:33 PM

    Amount the Lehman Brothers court examiner spent to investigate that single company: $38 million. Amount Congress has budgeted for the Angelides Commission to investigate the entire crisis: $8 million. — Let's outsource this item's media criticism to the... Continue reading

11. The Audit

    The Really Real S&P 500

    March 11, 2010 05:54 PM

    I wrote a post called "The Real Dow" a couple of months ago about how the press almost always fails to put stock-returns in real-dollars context—something that fools people into thinking stocks are better investments than they really are.... Continue reading

12. The Audit

    Gensler, Derivatives, and the Causes of the Crisis

    March 11, 2010 12:17 PM

    The New York Times profiles Gary Gensler, the Goldman alum and former deregulation advocate who's now pursuing reform with the proverbial zeal of a convert. It's a good idea and mostly well-executed, but I want to look at a... Continue reading

13. The Audit

    Audit Notes: FT “News,” Overdrafts Over at BofA, No Marketwatchdog

    March 10, 2010 10:31 PM

    There they go again. The Financial Times has a scoop so big it thought it decided we media types couldn't wait to read it in the paper or online—we needed a flash email. So what's the "exclusive" headline? Pandit... Continue reading

14. The Audit

    Cranston Attorney Now a Journal Star

    March 10, 2010 03:30 PM

    It's probably a bad sign if you're a Rhode Island lawyer who's the subject of two page-one Wall Street Journal articles in three weeks. And so it is here. The paper got a two-fer on Joseph Caramadre, who makes money... Continue reading

15. The Audit

    Times Peeks Inside CFPA Dealmaking

    March 10, 2010 10:46 AM

    The New York Times has a great scoop on the making of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency bill sausage. No surprise: It's indigestion-inducing. The paper reports that Senator Bob Corker, the Republican who's proposing to neuter the... Continue reading

16. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Sorkin GOP, Multi-Task Meacham, Salmon, Simon

    March 9, 2010 08:53 PM

    Andrew Ross Sorkin dips his toe into political commentary today in his DealBook column. Maybe he should stick to mergers: What’s so interesting about the battle over the proposed consumer protection agency is that Republicans have painted the Obama... Continue reading

17. The Audit

    Big Money, No Funny

    March 9, 2010 07:55 PM

    I get that everybody's trying to hop on the video bandwagon now since ad CPMs are so much higher than for non-video Web ads. The Wall Street Journal has The News Hub. The New York Times is <a... Continue reading

18. The Audit

    Credit Cards, Credit Scores, and Citigroup

    March 9, 2010 05:13 PM

    In case you didn't know it—the banks still have you over a barrel. David Lazarus of the Los Angeles Times writes about how too-big-to-fail banks like Citigroup and Bank of America are slapping fees on credit card accounts in... Continue reading

19. The Audit

    Lowenstein’s Consumer Protection Stinker

    March 9, 2010 04:31 AM

    Roger Lowenstein is too contrarian for his own good with his latest Bloomberg column. He writes that "Smart Banks With Dumb Customers Don’t Exist.” Okay, boss. Since mortgage bankers make money from loans, it’s tempting to think of them... Continue reading

20. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Glades Crusade, Greenspan Deflects, Whatever Happened to…?

    March 8, 2010 09:18 PM

    The New York Times's excellent investigation into Florida's deal for thousands of acres in the Everglades finds an awful lot of fishiness and hints at banana republic-style governance. Governor Charlie Crist agred to buy the land for $1.3 billion... Continue reading

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