Audit Notes: Statute of limitations, whither The Daily, Romney’s taxes

The WSJ on how the clock may (or may not) be running out on the SEC

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 17, 2012 at 01:55 AM

The Wall Street Journal is good to keep an eye on the statutes of limitation clocks that are running out... More

Audit Notes: JPMorgan’s Whale, rent-a-quotes, shark videos

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 13, 2012 at 03:00 PM

This New York Times story on JPMorgan's regulators is not well edited, but it has some interesting reporting: At one... More

The Goldman Sachs of online retail

The FT with a good look at Amazon’s Marketplace platform

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The Financial Times is running a good series this week on Amazon, one of the country's most fascinating and frustrating... More

Audit Notes: Reuters on Chesapeake, Krugman on CNBC, Waldman on banks

The wire uncovers more emails showing potential collusion between competitors

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 12, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Reuters continues its tremendous investigation into natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy and its CEO Aubrey McClendon. Brian Grow and Joshua... More

Audit Notes: The Fed and The Economist on Libor, Goldman and Louisville

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 11, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Reuters's Carrick Mollenkamp, who broke the Libor scandal open in 2008 with Mark Whitehouse when they were at The Wall... More

Manufactured quotes

News organizations fail to disclose “regular Joe” businessmen’s lobbying ties

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 10, 2012 at 06:06 PM

Two weeks ago The New York Times wheeled out that old chestnut of Great Recession-era economic reporting: Companies can't find... More

Audit Notes: Daily Planet holds up, record collapse, presidential fundraising

The Onion on the least believable part of Superman comics

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 10, 2012 at 06:50 AM

This Onion article on the outdated Daily Planet is spot on: Frustrated fans of the Superman comic book said Monday... More

Audit Notes: NYT on JPM, The Guardian’s future, Big Lie of the crisis

Jamie Dimon’s bank pressured brokers to steer clients into its own funds

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 7, 2012 at 12:44 AM

The New York Times reports that JPMorgan Chase pressured its brokers to steer its retail clients into its own investment... More

The Economist on the Libor scandal

What happened and why it matters

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 6, 2012 at 02:08 PM

If you haven't paid much attention yet to the Libor scandal, this Economist piece will get you caught up quickly.... More

Audit Notes: Dark Ages, Mitt and Rupert, Chesapeake’s taxes

Stephen Moore on how “the greens” supposedly want to plunge America into darkness

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The Wall Street Journal editorial page's Stephen Moore uses the power outage in DC as a warning about what life... More

Reuters’s Chesapeake Energy drumbeat

Internal emails show companies scheming to lower bids on drilling rights

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 5, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Reuters continues to draw a bead on Chesapeake Energy and its CEO Aubrey McClendon, whose scalp it will be claiming... More

Audit Notes: Glass-Steagall II, beyond paywalls, warehouse work

The FT comes out in favor of hiving off investment banks

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 3, 2012 at 08:04 PM

This is important: The Financial Times editorial page comes out in favor of a Glass-Steagall II that would once again... More

Audit Notes: Spain’s Dilemma, Brits’ outrage on Libor, Audit Radio

Martin Wolf on how the country’s woes show the roots of the euro crisis

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 3, 2012 at 01:32 AM

Martin Wolf of the Financial Times has an excellent blog post pointing out how wrong Germany and Co. are about... More

Inflating the regulatory state

TSA and border security account for almost all the increase in regulatory staff since 1980

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM

A Bloomberg News story last week on how the folks who oversee the regulators are overmatched these days raises a... More

Audit Notes: Insufferable in Aspen, Libor, Amazon Marketplace

Ending universal suffrage intrigues a CNBCer

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 29, 2012 at 08:07 PM

CNBC's John Carney finally heard an idea that intrigued him at the Aspen Ideas Festival: Ending universal suffrage: His argument... More

Audit Notes: Euro dissolution risk, Reuters tailed, Exxon and the press

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 28, 2012 at 11:56 PM

Simon Johnson, who has warned loudly for years about the critical danger posed by too-big-to-fail banks, as well as their... More

The Libor lie unravels

A big win for the business press

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 28, 2012 at 03:00 PM

Way back in September 2007, the Financial Times's Gillian Tett started raising questions about the benchmark London Interbank Offered Rate—Libor—a... More

Audit Notes: News Corp. split edition

More on the implications of Murdoch’s move

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 27, 2012 at 08:06 PM

The Financial Times's John Gapper has the best take on what Rupert Murdoch's bustup of News Corporation means: Some US... More

News Corp. ponders a split

Easing but not erasing the Murdoch discount

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Shareholders have been carping for years that Rupert Murdoch should get rid of his newspapers and focus on the real... More

Audit Notes: Gannett profits, Spiegel grilling, private equity

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 27, 2012 at 02:37 AM

At least Gannett is optimistic about the next few years, The Wall Street Journal reports (emphasis mine): Gannett, publisher of... More