Audit Notes: Off the Hamster Wheel, The Dumb Money, iPad Newspapers

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 9, 2012 at 01:53 AM

I like this Nieman Journalism Lab piece on how Salon hopped off the hamster wheel and saw site traffic increase... More

Mostly Skimpy Coverage of JPMorgan’s Overdraft Settlement

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 8, 2012 at 10:16 AM

Press favorite Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase is paying $110 million to settle a class-action suit against it for gouging its... More

Audit Notes: Payment Protection, Greek Austerity, Inflation Bugaboo

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 8, 2012 at 01:49 AM

American Banker's Victoria Finkle and Jeff Horwitz report on the credit card industry's payment-protection racket and note that the Consumer... More

NYT: Criminal Charges in the Foreclosure Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 7, 2012 at 02:02 AM

Gretchen Morgenson of The New York Times reports this morning on new criminal charges against robosigning company DocX and its... More

Audit Notes: Regressive Taxes, Another Task Force, Keller on Copyright

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 7, 2012 at 12:38 AM

Kevin Drum looks at how regressive taxes are at the state and local level, an issue that doesn't get nearly... More

Bad Math From the WSJ Opinion Pages

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 6, 2012 at 07:41 PM

Brad DeLong catches The Wall Street Journal editorial page in some hilariously bad math. Here's Stephen Moore: Federal workers on... More

Audit Notes: Minimum Wage and the Recession, Facebook’s Numbers, Most Powerless

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 3, 2012 at 06:44 PM

The Wall Street Journal runs an editorial today criticizing Mitt Romney for his support for increasing the minimum wage and... More

NYT With More on the SEC’s Soft Touch With Big Banks

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 3, 2012 at 02:41 PM

The New York Times has an excellent investigation today that shows in a new light how the SEC lets Wall... More

Audit Notes: CDO Charges, Facebook’s Board, Deficits

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 3, 2012 at 12:29 AM

Sure enough, the Justice Department charged former Credit Suisse CDO executive Kareem Serageldin with fraud for allegedly artificially inflating CDO... More

The WSJ’s Sony Story Is a Page-One Dud

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 2, 2012 at 07:21 PM

News that Sony's board has picked a new CEO gets page-one play in The Wall Street Journal, apparently because Kazuo... More

The Old-School Value of Facebook

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 1, 2012 at 06:41 PM

The New York Times's curtain-raiser on the Facebook IPO this morning asks, "Personal Data’s Value? Facebook Is Set to Find... More

Audit Notes: Finally, Fraud Charges; Gee Whiz Wired; Freddie

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 1, 2012 at 01:30 AM

The Wall Street Journal reports, and as far as I can tell, scoops that the Justice Department is preparing to... More

Bloomberg’s Big Miss in Silicon Valley Hiring Story

An analysis forgets mergers and acquisitions

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 31, 2012 at 07:14 PM

Bloomberg News reports on the hiring spree in Silicon Valley, possible evidence of "Web Bubble 2.0." But it makes some... More

Audit Notes: Data Pool 3, The UK Prints, Copyright

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 30, 2012 at 07:56 PM

Scotland Yard arrested four top current and former Sun journalists and a cop. The Guardian's Nick Davies gives us the... More

ProPublica and NPR on Freddie Mac’s Conflicts

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 30, 2012 at 04:34 PM

Why haven't Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae been much more aggressive about refinancing the mortgages they hold? That's a $50... More

Audit Notes: Fukayama on the Crisis, WSJ on Exec Pay, Nonprofit News

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 27, 2012 at 06:14 PM

The Browser has a great interview with Francis Fukayama on his five favorite financial-crisis books. Here he is on whether... More

Evangelicals, Mormons, and Mitt Romney

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 27, 2012 at 06:06 PM

The New York Times runs an op-ed headlined "Why Evangelicals Don't Like Mormons," which takes on an important issue but... More

Charlie Rose’s Weak Q&A With the SEC’s Khuzami

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 27, 2012 at 01:13 PM

Audit contributing editor Felix Salmon, writing this morning about Channel 4 reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy's tough questioning of Larry Summers, asked,... More

Audit Notes: Mortgage Bonds, Junkets, Digital Hype

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 26, 2012 at 08:54 PM

Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism flags what she calls a "bombshell" analyst report on the mortgage-backed securities market. The report... More

Wealthy Bloomberg Subscribers Call for Higher Taxes

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 26, 2012 at 03:00 PM

Bloomberg News had a good idea for a poll: Ask 1,200 of its $20,000-a-year subscribers whether the carried-interest tax break,... More