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1. The Audit

   Anniversary Stories, Lehman Brothers, and Bloomberg

   September 14, 2009 06:22 PM

   We're still wading through the anniversary stories in the business press, one year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered the near-collapse of the financial system itself. Unlike some folks, I have nothing against such stories (though, of... Continue reading

2. The Audit

   Looking at BusinessWeek’s Prospects

   September 14, 2009 10:39 AM

   Somebody finally got a hold of the BusinessWeek sale documents, and they clarify the magazine's prospects a bit. The New York Times's Stephanie Clifford gets the scoop one day before bids are due for the magazine. Expected bidders include... Continue reading

3. The Audit

   BW Looks at Effectiveness of Proposed Reforms

   September 11, 2009 05:35 PM

   We've been watching press coverage of regulatory reform closely here at The Audit for several months. The press has done a pretty good job covering the lobbying pushback by the finance industry, which got up off the mat swinging... Continue reading

4. The Audit

   Lessons from “Sesame Street”

   September 11, 2009 11:14 AM

   Last night, I saw some of the best journalism on regular working folks that I've seen in some time. But it wasn't on CNN or the NewsHour. It was on "Sesame Street". Ahem. My wife stumbled across the special, "<a... Continue reading

5. The Audit

   WSJ: Some Restaurant Won’t Take Cash Now

   September 11, 2009 10:22 AM

   File this one under odd news judgment: A Greenwich Village restaurant is no longer taking cash. The Wall Street Journal puts it on A6. This isn't a trend story, it isn't a slice of life story. It reads like... Continue reading

6. The Audit

   The Times on a Real Estate Deal Gone (Deservedly) Bad

   September 10, 2009 02:22 PM

   The New York Times on page one today looks at the fate of the buyout of Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. It's about as close as a story will get to saying: It's going bust in five... Continue reading

7. The Audit

   WSJ on the Prospects for Reform

   September 9, 2009 05:48 PM

   The Wall Street Journal has an okay page-one look at the prospects for financial reform, concluding that they've "faltered" as the crisis has eased. The piece doesn't add much new but it's by no means not worth doing. These... Continue reading

8. The Audit

   The Times Takes on Overdraft “Protection”

   September 9, 2009 07:00 AM

   The New York Times goes big this morning on the overdraft "protection" racket with a front-page story looking at this issue, one we've been eyeballing for a while here at The Audit as newsrooms... Continue reading

9. The Audit

   Somebody Else (!) Takes on the Murdoch Journal

   September 8, 2009 05:31 PM

   The blog NYTPicker, in the course of praising a page one Times story yesterday, turns its critical eye on The Wall Street Journal: Once upon a time, a great newspaper called The Wall Street Journal (not to be confused... Continue reading

10. The Audit

    The Unlearned Lessons of Lehman, a Year Later

    September 8, 2009 03:26 PM

    September 15 is a week away, so here come the Lehman Brothers retrospectives. First out of the gate is Bloomberg, which goes long—as in 4,091 words long, and this is just the first of four parts—on how and why... Continue reading

11. The Audit

    WSJ on a New Chamber of Commerce Campaign

    September 8, 2009 10:08 AM

    The Wall Street Journal has a scoop today that the Chamber of Commerce is funding a $2 million ad campaign against the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Not exactly shocking, but it's especially critical to keep an eye on... Continue reading

12. The Audit

    More on Print and Online Reader Revenue

    September 4, 2009 04:23 PM

    Michael Masnick of TechDirt took issue last week with my post showing the wide disparity between the value of online and print readers of newspapers—calling the exercise "totally meaningless." I never said it was the codebreaker, but okay.... Continue reading

13. The Audit

    Unemployment (Still) Worse Than You Think

    September 4, 2009 09:53 AM

    The press reports the bad news this morning that the unemployment rate closed in on 10 percent last month, hitting 9.7 percent from 9.4 percent in July. That's a truly awful number—the highest in twenty-six years. But, as we... Continue reading

14. The Audit

    A Good Dose of Common Sense Heard on the Street

    September 3, 2009 06:02 PM

    The Journal's Simon Nixon has a nice Heard on the Street column today, noting that "Bankers Have Only Themselves to Blame" for a new backlash. And how. He notes that the banks were chugging along the return to normalcy... Continue reading

15. The Audit

    Calculating the Benefits of Cash for Clunkers

    September 3, 2009 01:24 PM

    Yesterday I tipped The Audit's cap to a nifty bit of analysis from Calculated Risk pointing out that the real cost of the Cash for Clunkers and first-time-homebuyers subsidy programs were far higher than what's been reported. But Michael... Continue reading

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    WSJ’s Wessel on the Deficit and Taxing the Rich

    September 3, 2009 10:25 AM

    The Wall Street Journal's David Wessel has a useful column looking at whether and how much tax increases on the well-to-do would be able to close the estimated $9 trillion budget gap over the next decade. Not much, actually.... Continue reading

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    Calculating the Clunkers’ Real Cost to Taxpayers

    September 2, 2009 10:06 AM

    Calculated Risk has a smart bit of economic analysis on the real cost to taxpayers of the Cash for Clunkers and housing-credit subsidies—calculations I haven't seen anywhere else. CR notes that the real economic benefits of the subsidies come... Continue reading

18. The Audit

    The FT on the Bloat in Banking

    September 1, 2009 03:57 PM

    The debate in the U.S. over how to reform the financial system has been overshadowed by the health-care hubbub. It's been a bit hotter in Europe recently. To see a bit of what we're missing, check out Philip Stevens <a... Continue reading

19. The Audit

    Lazy Summer Musings from the WSJ D.C. Bureau

    September 1, 2009 01:36 PM

    The Wall Street Journal wants you to know why the town halls were so rowdy this summer. Here's its stilted lede: WASHINGTON -- Recent town-hall uproars weren't just about health care. They were also eruptions of concern that the... Continue reading

20. The Audit

    NYT’s Rejoinder on Obama and the Deficit

    August 31, 2009 02:48 PM

    Last Wednesday, I got on the Washington Post for a poor page-one story on the $9 trillion budget deficit—a piece that had plenty of blame for Obama, and none for George W. Bush. So it was nice to see... Continue reading

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