Audit Notes: Wall Street’s Trib Bust, Pro-Union U.S., Authoritarian Wal-Mart

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 22, 2011 at 08:30 PM

David Carr looks at James O'Shea's new book on Sam Zell's Tribune Company fiasco and zooms in on O'Shea's reporting... More

Gannett’s Multimillionaires Regret to Inform 700 Workers of Their Layoffs

Imagine if these six execs scrapped the “multi” and took low seven figures

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 22, 2011 at 01:42 AM

Gannett says "we need to take further steps to align our costs with the current revenue trends," so it's laying... More

Stock Market Chart of the Day: Socialism vs. Cowboy Capitalism

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 21, 2011 at 12:19 PM

In the appendix of that report on executive compensation and inequality that the Washington Post wrote about the other day,... More

Executive Compensation As the Driver of Inequality

A well reported Washington Post story makes a solid case

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 20, 2011 at 05:51 PM

The Washington Post leads off its new series on inequality with a killer anecdote: It was the 1970s, and the... More

The Hamster Wheel and the AOL Way

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM

Audit Chief Dean Starkman's "Hamster Wheel" piece has now been enshrined in the lexicon of the bureaucracy with the release... More

Audit Notes: Cash Giveaway, Bloomberg Views (in the WSJ), Lede of the Week

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 17, 2011 at 08:40 PM

Jeff Amy of the Mobile Press-Register has some good reporting on corporate welfare in Alabama. He writes that businesses aren't... More

SEC Scooplets From the WSJ

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 17, 2011 at 12:28 PM

The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that the SEC is finally considering charging the credit raters—critical components of the... More

The Press Notes the Euro Crisis Threatens the U.S. Too

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 16, 2011 at 05:47 PM

It's beginning to dawn on the U.S. press that the slow-motion crash of the European Union just might have some... More

An Excellent WSJ Probe Finds Corporate Jet Abuse

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 16, 2011 at 01:34 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a terrific investigation into executive abuse of corporate jets and shows that companies are violating... More

Organizing via Facebook in the Age of Union-Busting

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 15, 2011 at 08:18 PM

The New York Times's Steven Greenhouse has an interesting report today on a group of Walmart workers who are organizing—just... More

FT: SEC Investigates a Magnetar Deal

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 15, 2011 at 12:42 PM

The FT's Kara Scannell scoops that the SEC is investigating a Magnetar CDO deal, probing Merrill Lynch and its handpicked... More

The Unimportance Lobby (UPDATED)

The NYT shows Big Finance pushing to avoid a “systematically important” designation

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 13, 2011 at 03:31 PM

The New York Times had a good look yesterday at how big financial companies are lobbying Washington to not be... More

Bloomberg’s Weil Exposes Another Accounting Regulator Coverup

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 10, 2011 at 07:08 PM

Jonathan Weil has a tough Bloomberg View column about accounting regulators covering up wrongdoing by companies and their auditors. Back... More

AT&T Buys Nonprofit Support for its Anticompetitive Merger

Politico and the Washington Post follow the money

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 10, 2011 at 03:39 PM

It ought to raise eyebrows when groups like the NAACP, GLAAD, and the nation's largest teachers union lobby to approve... More

Audit Notes: Paywall Protection, News Corp. Scandal Widens, Goldman and Libya

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 9, 2011 at 07:49 PM

Ken Doctor has a good post over at Nieman Journalism Lab on the Walter Hussman Theorem, which is that you... More

The Fed, Still Oracular in the Post-Greenspan Era

The business press’s various interpretations of a Bernanke speech

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 9, 2011 at 03:54 PM

Ben Bernanke gave a speech the other day, saying that... well... he said some thing or another, according to the... More

Walmart’s Unions

They do exist—outside the U.S.—as a Washington Post story shows

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM

It's well known that Walmart is viciously anti-union. It's not much known is that the company is much more accomodative... More

Audit Notes: Poor Wall Street, Our Lost Decade, Parallel Universe

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 8, 2011 at 07:46 PM

Reading this Wall Street Journal story, you'd think that Wall Street had fallen on hard times: Morgan Stanley offered a... More

WaPo Shows Geithner Pushed Austerity

A profile reports the Treasury secretary steered Obama away from jobs focus

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 8, 2011 at 02:39 PM

You can sense a surge in criticism of the Obama administration coming, both from within and from former members of... More

Audit Notes: News Corp. Coverup Continues, Guinness Record for Sellouts, AOL/HuffPo

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 7, 2011 at 07:58 PM

The New York Times reports on the latest from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation phone hacking scandal and coverup. The news... More