Audit Notes: Goldman’s Sophisticated Investors, Abacus Emails, Deindustrialization

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 6, 2011 at 10:14 PM

The New York Times gets an interesting scoop on the Goldman Sachs deal for a stake in Facebook—one that values... More

ProPublica Shows Merrill Paid Traders to Take Its CDOs

An important story on how Wall Street kept the bubble going

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 6, 2011 at 08:25 PM

I really hate when news organizations drop big stories over the holidays. For one, they have far less chance of... More

Hiltzik Takes on the FCC on the Comcast-NBC Deal

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 6, 2011 at 03:53 PM

John Dunbar has a must-read piece in the current issue of Columbia Journalism Review on why the Comcast-NBC Merger is... More

Audit Notes: Goldman and Facebook, Chainsaws, Hudson on Tax History

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 5, 2011 at 08:52 PM

Francine McKenna sums up the problem with Facebook's Goldman Sachs investment pretty succinctly over at Forbes: Facebook wants the public’s... More

Bloomberg Continues to Hit Corporate Tax Schemes

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 5, 2011 at 07:26 PM

Jesse Drucker of Bloomberg has been doing some excellent reporting of the corporate-tax system and how companies are manipulating it... More

WSJ Keeps an Eye on Bank Fees

Annual fees for debit cards could be next

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 5, 2011 at 01:48 PM

The Wall Street Journal does a good job today on how banks are plotting new fees to get around the... More

Audit Notes: Google v. Groupon, BofA Deal, The 99ers

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 4, 2011 at 11:31 PM

The Wall Street Journal's Shira Ovide writes that Google, spurned by Groupon despite its stunning $6 billion offer for the... More

Bank of America’s Sweet Deal on Fannie and Freddie

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 4, 2011 at 01:24 PM

The Washington Post got the best quote on the Bank of America settlement with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and... More

Best of 2010: Ryan Chittum

Chittum picks his top stories from 2009 2010

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 24, 2010 at 01:20 PM

Business Journalism on Prozac: A look at an issue of Fortune finds the magazine painting a picture of the corporate... More

Audit Notes: The Bloomberg Way, Conflicts in Congress, Apple and Wikileakspedia

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 21, 2010 at 06:45 PM

One of the knocks on Bloomberg News is that the place is a bit, well, cultish. This quote doesn't help... More

An Excellent WSJ Piece on Federal Regulators’ Inaction

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 21, 2010 at 10:52 AM

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent follow to its scoop yesterday that New York is planning to sue Ernst... More

Audit Notes: Nocera on Wallison, The Corporate Court, Wall Street Pay

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 20, 2010 at 05:21 PM

Joe Nocera weighed in Saturday on the ridiculous document released by the Republicans on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Here... More

The WSJ Gives a Madoff the Soft Touch

Access and a celebrity-journalism-style puff piece

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 20, 2010 at 02:24 PM

This looks for all the world like a publicist-driven story in The Wall Street Journal story on how Andrew Madoff... More

Audit Notes: Inequality in NYC, Reuters on Dumb Money, Ireland

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 17, 2010 at 06:05 PM

Yves Smith, in a "Banana Republic Watch," points to a report (PDF) from the Fiscal Policy Institute that finds inequality... More

Covering the Republicans’ Crisis Commission Document

Bethany McLean shows why he said-she said reporting doesn’t cut it

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 17, 2010 at 03:14 PM

The four Republicans on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released their own report Wednesday on the causes of the financial... More

Audit Notes: Deal Scoops; Gasparino on the Economy, Bloomberg Editorials

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 16, 2010 at 08:10 PM

Deal journalism isn't our bag here, but this New York Observer story is worth noting all the same. It's interesting... More

WSJ Parrots Governor Christie on Jobs

But missing context undermines the governor’s—and the paper’s—story

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 16, 2010 at 05:51 PM

The idea, I suppose, of The Wall Street Journal's Greater New York section was to bring a little Journal touch... More

When Regulators Shrink, Press Responsibilities Rise

Republicans signal intent to return to the status quo ante

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 16, 2010 at 10:09 AM

The quasi re-regulation of finance is less than two years old, but it's already facing the rollback from leadership in... More

Pearlstein Takes On Google’s Threat to Competition

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 15, 2010 at 04:19 PM

The Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein takes up the Google monopoly case today with an excellent column in The Washington Post.... More

Most of the Press Misses Foreclosure Scandal News (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 15, 2010 at 11:53 AM

Iowa's attorney general said yesterday that he will bring criminal charges over the foreclosure scandal. But most of the press... More