Audit Notes: Main Street Corp., The Do-Nothing Deficit Fix, Hugh Grant

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2011 at 09:15 PM

The Wall Street Journal runs a banner headline across the top of page one that says: Risk Rule Riles Main... More

Banana Republic

Alt-weekly and mainstream exposés on how the richest Americans game the tax system

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2011 at 07:08 PM

David Cay Johnston has a fantastic piece out on "9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes"... More

The AP Falls For a Bogus Press Release

No excuse for that silly mistake but points for cleaning up the mess

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2011 at 01:59 PM

Henry Blodget wants to know if we're going to blast the Associated Press for falling for a hoax press release... More

Audit Notes: Perk Up, Core Inflation, What Passes for News

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 12, 2011 at 07:49 PM

USA Today takes a long look at CEO perks, but it doesn't do a good job of prioritizing the really... More

Taibbi on a Fed Bailout the Business Press Buried

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 12, 2011 at 02:11 PM

Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone zeroes in on an interesting detail from the Federal Reserve's bailouts: The Fed lent big... More

LAT on the U.S. As Low-Wage Offshoring Destination

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 11, 2011 at 07:54 PM

Where does Ikea build a plant when it wants to offshore work to pay poverty wages, bust unions, force mandatory... More

NYT Eyes a Conflict of Interest at JPMorgan

The bank made a couple billion dollars as its clients lost their shirts

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 11, 2011 at 01:58 PM

The New York Times looks at a lawsuit over conflicts of interest at JPMorgan and how the bank covered its... More

Audit Notes: Race to the Bottom, More Corporate Welfare, Money Is Fungible

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 8, 2011 at 06:47 PM

The New York Times is good to take a look at how neighboring states race to the bottom bidding to... More

HuffPost: An SEC Wrist Slap for Fleecing an Indian Tribe (UPDATED)

Wachovia dinged with a small settlement, and no individuals are charged

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 8, 2011 at 05:15 PM

Good for The Huffington Post's Shahien Nasiripour for giving us a closer look at Wachovia's settlement for defrauding an Indian... More

Audit Notes: What SF’s Missing, Post on Waters, Palin Prediction

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 8, 2011 at 01:29 AM

SF Weekly's Matt Smith reports on a new project that's well worth watching—one that will investigate the impact of the... More

Becky Quick Thinks the Fed Is Too Focused on Jobs

That makes no sense historically or in the current context

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 8, 2011 at 12:30 AM

CNBC's Becky Quick uses her Fortune column to argue that the Federal Reserve should break the law. The law says... More

Bercovici Is Wrong on “Journalism 2.0” Causing Afghan Murders

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 7, 2011 at 03:36 PM

Forbes's Jeff Bercovici would like you to know that those UN workers murdered in Afghanistan after a Florida Koran-burning were... More

ProPublica and Fortune’s Unhelpful Post on GE’s Taxes

Taking the company’s word for it to rebut The New York Times

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 7, 2011 at 11:46 AM

Fortune's Allan Sloan and ProPublica's Jeff Gerth asserted a couple of days ago that The New York Times got it... More

Audit Notes: BizWeek Soars, Barofsky in Fortune, A Picture of Deflation

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 6, 2011 at 08:17 PM

It's been more than a year now since Bloomberg took over BusinessWeek, rebranded it, expanded it, and put Josh Tyrangiel... More

A Little Healthy Outrage on Executive Pay

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 6, 2011 at 02:16 PM

Roger Lowenstein had an excellent Bloomberg column a couple of weeks ago on outlandish executive compensation. Unfortunately, it got one... More

60 Minutes With a Good Look at the Foreclosure Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 5, 2011 at 07:45 PM

Hats off to 60 Minutes and Scott Pelley for taking a nice look at the foreclosure scandal on Sunday. Pelley... More

A Triangle Shirtwaist-Like Disaster, Buried By the U.S. Press

Outsourcing tragedies while paying a sliver of what our workers made 100 years ago

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 5, 2011 at 02:11 PM

The Consumerist has a fascinating post asking whether we've really eliminated our Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disasters or if we've just... More

Audit Notes: Hiltzik on Drug R&D, A 1 Percent “Score”, Paywalls

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 4, 2011 at 08:26 PM

The Los Angeles Times's Michael Hiltzik finds a study that questions the drug lobby's line on how much it costs... More

Audit Notes: Forced Fed, Bank Wages, Schroeder on Buffett

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 1, 2011 at 07:48 PM

The press continues to rifle through the Fed's discount window data dump, finding that Some 70 percent of all loans... More

A Times Snapshot of the Gilded Age Economy

The very rich do very well while the rest of the country suffers

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 1, 2011 at 02:16 PM

The New York Times's business coverage today is good and depressing—a portrait of our Second Gilded Age. On page one,... More