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1. The Audit

   A muddy Bloomberg story sets up Romney’s Jeep attack

   November 1, 2012 06:50 AM

   Mitt Romney's gotten in hot water with the nation's burgeoning horde of fact checkers by asserting that Jeep "is thinking of moving all production to China." That's clearly false. Chrysler is considering adding Jeep production over there, not closing up... Continue reading

2. The Audit

   Bloomberg digs up more on Romney’s tax avoidance

   October 31, 2012 06:50 AM

   Mitt Romney won’t release his tax returns beyond two years in which he was already actively campaigning for president, and the political press seems to have forgotten about it since Romney’s early October surge in the polls. So it’s left... Continue reading

3. The Audit

   The ‘downright dangerous’ Paul Krugman

   October 30, 2012 06:50 AM

   This summer, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went on CNBC to talk about his book and ended up getting ambushed by a pack of smug, out of touch, and/or misinformed journalists, something I wrote was emblematic of the... Continue reading

4. The Audit

   Audit Notes: inequality denial, AIG’s CEO, private equity

   October 29, 2012 06:50 AM

   The New Republic's Timothy Noah and The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien demolish a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Kevin "Dow 36,000" Hassett and Aparna Mathur that purports to debunk the fact that inequality has increased dramatically over... Continue reading

5. The Audit

   The paywall prevents a deeper downturn at the NYT

   October 26, 2012 12:12 PM

   New York Times Company shares plummeted Thursday as ad revenues were worse than expected, pushing down profits from a year ago. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the Times’s paywall continues to be a huge success, and... Continue reading

6. The Audit

   Audit Notes: NYT scoop, Freddie’s anti-stimulus, Wired on making stuff

   October 26, 2012 06:50 AM

   The New York Times David Barboza gets a huge scoop on corruption in China, reporting that the family of the country’s premiere, Wen Jiabao, is now worth billions of dollars and has tried to conceal its riches: Even... Continue reading

7. The Audit

   Audit Notes: dethroning DeMarco, the cult of disruption, China trade

   October 25, 2012 06:50 AM

   The Financial Times's Shahien Nasiripour reports that the Obama administration is quietly telling activists that it will replace Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac regulator Ed DeMarco if the president is re-elected. DeMarco is the Bush administration holdover who has blocked the... Continue reading

8. The Audit

   Newsweek and the (relative) health of print mags

   October 24, 2012 06:50 AM

   News that Newsweek is exiting print was hardly surprising coming two years after the Washington Post Company unloaded it for a dollar. But these numbers struck me while reading this Financial Times story on the news: Newsweek has suffered... Continue reading

9. The Audit

   Audit Notes: What’s Social Security worth?, another CNBC ‘poll,’ Greg Smith

   October 23, 2012 06:50 AM

   What would Social Security coverage look like if the press covered it more like personal finance reporters cover IRAs and 401(k)s? The Wall Street Journal's Ellen Schultz shows us with a great piece on Social Security that cuts through... Continue reading

10. The Audit

    Audit Notes: advising Obama, the leverage incentive, Jack Welch

    October 22, 2012 06:50 AM

    The New York Times had an excellent story this weekend on Anita Dunn, the Obama adviser who's got one foot in the private sector and one in his presidential campaign: And working on behalf of Pratt & Whitney,... Continue reading

11. The Audit

    A CEO’s high-flying standards

    October 19, 2012 06:50 AM

    We've seen $87,000 rugs and $6,000 shower curtains. But this fascinating Bloomberg story on Abercrombie & Fitch's CEO Michael Jeffries adds a more exacting chapter to the annals of corporate decadence: The actors and models who worked... Continue reading

12. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Google antitrust, the NYT on entrenched elites

    October 15, 2012 06:50 AM

    Reuters scoops that the Federal Trade Commission is leaning toward filing antitrust charges against Google for abusing its search monopoly to boost its own business: The majority of top decision-makers at the Federal Trade Commission believe that an antitrust... Continue reading

13. The Audit

    The NYT unseals a private-equity scoop

    October 12, 2012 06:50 AM

    A tip of The Audit's green eyeshade to The New York Times for fighting to get this look inside the private-equity "club deals" of the bubble era. The paper brought a motion two months ago to unseal a lawsuit... Continue reading

14. The Audit

    A Web survey isn’t a poll, CNBC

    October 12, 2012 03:57 AM

    Whoever was running the CNBC Twitter feed last night didn't know the difference between a scientific poll and a Web poll: [POLL RESULTS] Who do you think won the VP Debate? Paul Ryan: 56%, Joe Biden: 36%, Neither: 8%.... Continue reading

15. The Audit

    Audit Notes: fraud without fraudsters edition

    October 11, 2012 12:21 PM

    The Wall Street Journal fronts news that the feds are suing Wells Fargo for a decade of mortgage fraud that bilked the government out of hundreds of millions of dollars. The New York Times stuffs it on... Continue reading

16. The Audit

    Ask Obama This: What about housing?

    October 11, 2012 06:50 AM

    Over the final month of the campaign, CJR will run a series of posts under the headline “Ask Obama This” and “Ask Romney This,” suggesting questions that reporters should pose to the presidential candidates. So far we've asked President... Continue reading

17. The Audit

    Audit Notes: The FT’s prospects, another victimized billionaire, Bain & Co.

    October 10, 2012 06:50 AM

    Michael Wolff writes in The Guardian about the Financial Times's prospects now that Pearson CEO Marjorie Scardino, a booster of the paper, is on the way out. He reports that Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters have gone "hat in hand"... Continue reading

18. The Audit

    Neutron Jack: ‘I quit!’

    October 9, 2012 01:51 PM

    I've long wondered why business magazines run Jack Welch's columns. BusinessWeek ran it for years but stopped a month after Bloomberg bought the magazine and installed Josh Tyrangiel as editor. As Tyrangiel later told Capital New York, "There... Continue reading

19. The Audit

    Audit Notes: BLS BS, another print turnaround forecast, deficits

    October 9, 2012 12:15 PM

    Don't miss Brendan Nyhan's excellent review of coverage of the unemployment-numbers conspiracy theory kicked off by Jack Welch on Friday. And I've got two more examples of poor press coverage to point out on this issue. The <a... Continue reading

20. The Audit

    Jack Welch and anti-business sentiment

    October 8, 2012 06:50 AM

    Former GE CEO Jack Welch made waves last week claiming—with zero evidence—that the Obama administration manipulated the unemployment report that showed joblessness dropping to 7.8 percent last month. Now that's kooky. But it's not too surprising coming from Welch (whom... Continue reading

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