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1. The Audit

   Revisiting the Journal’s TBTF Citi Story

   January 14, 2010 05:34 AM

   Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism calls me out for swallowing a Wall Street Journal story showing the Citigroup side in the too-big-to-fail debate. I think she's right. I didn't mean to imply that this was an excuse... Continue reading

2. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Frontrunning, Walk Away!, Housing (Still) Deteriorating

   January 13, 2010 06:29 PM

   The New York Times reports that Goldman Sachs admitted in an email to clients it has traded ahead of its investment advice to them. Nice lede: For years, Wall Street whispered that Goldman Sachs profited handsomely by trading ahead... Continue reading

3. The Audit

   Indirect Subsidies Are Bailouts, Too

   January 13, 2010 03:37 PM

   Dan Gross at Slate pushes back against the false notion that the banks have paid back all their bailouts—a nasty little lobbyist-planted meme that the press needs to nip in the bud. I noted this morning that The... Continue reading

4. The Audit

   HuffPost Expands on the Obama Bank-Tax Plan

   January 13, 2010 10:16 AM

   That bank-tax reported yesterday looks like it will be broader and tougher than initially reported. The Huffington Post quotes a senior administration official saying that Obama will institute a tax not only to recoup taxpayer losses on the bailouts... Continue reading

5. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Goner Jobs, Angelides Questions, More AIG

   January 12, 2010 07:23 PM

   The WSJ warns that any recovery in employment is going to be slowed by the fact that many of the jobs lost aren't ever coming back. This is normal for any recession—it's part of that whole creative destruction thing.... Continue reading

6. The Audit

   BizWeek Lures Clicks with Bad Photoshop

   January 12, 2010 03:35 PM

   This Bloomberg BusinessWeek slideshow on the best places to raise your kids for its is unintentionally (I think) funny. How many terrible Photoshop jobs can you put in one click-show? How about fifty? My personal faves include this... Continue reading

7. The Audit

   The Angelides Opportunity

   January 12, 2010 10:15 AM

   The Angelides Commission starting tomorrow is a key moment in the financial crisis. If it turns out to be a Pecora II, it could help force real change on the politicians and their banker patrons. Much will depend on how... Continue reading

8. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Dealism, AIG SECrets, Fed Fights Bloomberg

   January 12, 2010 01:13 AM

   The business-press criticism quote of the day goes to The New York Times for this gem from Eduardo Mestre, an investment banker who helped cement the catastrophic AOL-Time Warner merger: If you go back and read what was written... Continue reading

9. The Audit

   WSJ on Citi’s TBTF Money Pipeline

   January 11, 2010 07:29 PM

   There are a few really interesting things in the the Journal's story today on Citigroup and some of the benefits of mega-huge banks—as well as the difficulties of extracting them from the global financial system. For one, the paper... Continue reading

10. The Audit

    BW Focuses on the Temp Economy

    January 11, 2010 03:51 PM

    BusinessWeek's good cover story this week looks at the temping of the American workforce. Wait a second, you say. Haven't we read about that for years? Yes, but it's still going on, it's important, and it's worsening. Capital... Continue reading

11. The Audit

    Times Shares

    January 11, 2010 10:15 AM

    The idea of the day comes from Business Insider's Henry Blodget, who has some smart advice for Sulzbergers: Tap the capital markets. Now. New York Times Company stock has soared 350 percent in a little under a year, meaning... Continue reading

12. The Audit

    Audit Links: Jobless Stats, Reuters and SAC, LATe

    January 8, 2010 06:59 PM

    The unemployment numbers came in worse than expected this morning and the Washington Post's Frank Ahrens points out that they're really worse than most people reported. That's because the headline U-3 unemployment number doesn't include people so down on... Continue reading

13. The Audit

    WSJ Eyeballs Upcoming Bank of America Bonuses

    January 8, 2010 03:38 PM

    The Wall Street Journal continues to spotlight the record—or near-record—pay coming on Wall Street. Remember Bank of America until recently was a ward of the state, mostly because of its disastrous purchase of Merrill Lynch, which would have taken... Continue reading

14. The Audit

    The Fed and AIG, Day Two

    January 8, 2010 10:07 AM

    All too often the press seems to want to downplay stories broken by a competitor. So it's good to see The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal follow up in a big way on a... Continue reading

15. The Audit

    Thursday Links: More Fed/AIG, Reuters and SAC, Netflix

    January 7, 2010 07:35 PM

    The New York Times's DealBook prints the Federal Reserve/AIG emails spotlighted in Bloomberg's scoop this morning, though as the FT's Alphaville notes, it's awfully uncharitable with crediting the Berg. Bloomberg itself should have printed the documents along with... Continue reading

16. The Audit

    WSJ Revisits the Carried-Interest Tax

    January 7, 2010 04:19 PM

    What ever happened to the carried-interest tax? The Wall Street Journal looks at that today, reporting that hedge funds and private-equity funds may be about to finally get taxed like the rest of us. As it stands, they only... Continue reading

17. The Audit

    Bloomberg Continues to Lead on the Fed and AIG

    January 7, 2010 10:03 AM

    Bloomberg has the story of the day today, an eye-raising scoop that the New York Federal Reserve, then headed by now-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, told AIG to conceal critical details of its bailout from the public. AIG said in... Continue reading

18. The Audit

    Wednesday Links: Double Dip, Fed Failure, Chicago School

    January 6, 2010 07:47 PM

    Randall W. Forsyth of Barron's is calling a double-dip recession, pointing to the declining money supply calculated by John Williams' Shadow Government Statistics (the Fed no longer tracks the M3 measure, Forsyth reports, which sounds story-worthy in and... Continue reading

19. The Audit

    BW on How the Dems Watered Down Reform

    January 6, 2010 05:14 PM

    Bloomberg's acquisition of BusinessWeek may be paying off for its journalism. The cover story in BW is by two Bloomberg reporters, but it doesn't read like a Bloomberg story. That's a good thing. We had hoped... Continue reading

20. The Audit

    WSJ on the Russian Oligarchy’s Survival

    January 6, 2010 09:53 AM

    The Wall Street Journal this morning profiles an aluminum tycoon on what he reveals about the Russian oligarchy's symbiotic relationship with Vladimir Putin during the credit crisis. It's a well-done story that's reminiscent of WSJ page-one stories of yore.... Continue reading

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