Audit Notes: Bloomberg on the Fed, OCC Meddles for Banks, Who Runs the World

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 31, 2011 at 07:57 PM

Bloomberg News is flooding the zone on the Fed's discount-window document dump, which the central bank had to disclose after... More

An Atlantic Ghost Story

Housing crash porn with no “there” there

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 31, 2011 at 03:05 PM

The Atlantic runs a slideshow post by 24/7 Wall St.'s Douglas A. McIntyre with the click-me headline "The New American... More

GE Flubs a Pushback Against The New York Times

The company can’t—or won’t—get its story straight on taxes

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 31, 2011 at 11:24 AM

General Electric went into full public-relations pushback mode after The New York Times's damaging story Friday on how it avoids... More

Audit Notes: The Dimon Dare; Bloomberg’s Bank FOIA, Hamsters Attack!

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 30, 2011 at 07:13 PM

The Financial Times reports tonight that press favorite Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, that regulation is going to kill... More

SIGTARP Barofsky Skewers Treasury’s TARP Defense

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 30, 2011 at 11:51 AM

Today's must-read comes from Neil Barofsky, the TARP's special inspector general, in a New York Times op-ed. He guts the... More

Audit Notes: Banks Mislead, The South and Unions, Shareholder Capitalism

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 29, 2011 at 07:58 PM

Adam Levitin of Georgetown Law and Credit Slips calls out the banking lobby for an "incredibly dishonest" attempt to mislead... More

The WSJ Is Excellent On Bad Doctors

Using a Medicare database to find outlying surgeons

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 29, 2011 at 01:41 PM

The Wall Street Journal has been mining a massive Medicare database for an investigative series on Medicare—particularly its costs and... More

NYT Follows Walmart’s Weird OSHA Fight

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 28, 2011 at 02:40 PM

The New York Times reported this weekend that a judge upheld $7,000 fine OSHA levied against Walmart for the trampling... More

Audit Notes: Mortgage Industry Conflicts of Interest Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 25, 2011 at 05:11 PM

American Banker has a smart story on "How Not to Make a Mortgage Servicing Settlement," taking a look at the... More

NYT Is Superb On General Electric’s Tax Avoidance

Plus, David Kocieniewski continues his Charlie Rangel exposés

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 25, 2011 at 02:14 PM

(UPDATE: See my follow-up post on GE's poor PR response to the Times's story) The New York Times unloads a... More

Audit Notes: Sunday Papers, Weymouth’s Payday, Ayn Rand

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 24, 2011 at 08:15 PM

Ken Doctor has some interesting thoughts at the Nieman Journalism Lab on why The New York Times's paywall pricing steers... More

Better to Be Skeptical Than Sanguine About Soaring Tech Valuations (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 24, 2011 at 05:42 PM

Henry Blodget's Business Insider runs a column today from a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist arguing that there's no new... More

Harsh Justice for a Wall Street Thief

A thief who stole from Wall Street, of course

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 24, 2011 at 03:25 PM

David Weidner has an excellent column on the unfortunate case of Sergey Aleynikov, better known as the guy who stole... More

Audit Notes: Ma Bell II—Duopoly Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 23, 2011 at 11:51 PM

The Financial Times's John Gapper has an excellent column on why the AT&T's proposed deal for T-Mobile should be shot... More

Some Questions on the Debit-Reform Story

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 23, 2011 at 07:38 PM

It strikes me that this Wall Street Journal story on the banks' "strange bedfellows" opposing debit-card rules probably should have... More

WSJ: Federal Regulator Bares Fangs At Wall Street

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 23, 2011 at 06:11 AM

The Wall Street Journal has a reports this morning that federal regulators are playing smashmouth with Wall Street over their... More

Audit Notes: The Fed and Labor, Revolving Door Watch, Bank Dividends

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 22, 2011 at 08:24 PM

Mike Konczal, aka Rortybomb, has a very interesting post asking questions about the impact of Federal Reserve policies have had... More

AT&T’s Cellphone Industry Rollup Gets Second-Day Scrutiny

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 22, 2011 at 01:28 PM

The business press continues to be skeptical in its second-day coverage of AT&T's $39 billion deal for T-Mobile. That's a... More

Good Consolidation Coverage for a Change on AT&T Deal

The business press is skeptical of creating a duopoly in cell phone service

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 21, 2011 at 07:41 PM

Fortune's Seth Weintraub pulls a four-year-old Stephen Colbert clip that's as good a place as any to kick off a... More

Supremes Rule for Bloomberg Over the Banks

A big press win as Mark Pittman’s lawsuit pries bailout records from the Federal Reserve

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 21, 2011 at 11:45 AM

Chalk one up for the people's right to know over the bank arm of the government's right to spend our... More