Yet Again, Fannie and Freddie Didn’t Do It

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Michael Hudson writes one of the most convincing Fannie and Freddie Didn't Do It pieces yet. Actually, my soundbite isn't... More

Audit Notes: Bad Times with FINRA, Apple, and Co-bylines

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 18, 2011 at 08:58 PM

The New York Times's DealBook drops a beat sweetener profiling the new head of FINRA, that toothless in-house regulator of... More

The Dead Source Who Keeps on Giving

Fortune joins the WSJ in putting Jerome York on the record after his death

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 18, 2011 at 06:53 PM

Back in March, I noticed The Wall Street Journal appearing to burn an off-the-record source a few days after he... More

The NYT Tosses Off a Paywall Story

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 18, 2011 at 11:10 AM

The New York Times has a brief report today raising hopes about the prospects of a pay model for newspapers.... More

Audit Notes: Beer Buys Off the ‘Burg?, Apple As Bully, Bank Propaganda

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 14, 2011 at 09:09 PM

This New York Times story, which reports that residents of Brooklyn's Williamsburg protested a Duane Reade chain store coming into... More

The Groupon Bubble

NYT reports Wall Street pitching a $15 billion to $20 billion debut

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM

If you doubted, even after Facebook's recent $50 billion valuation, that there's a mini-bubble inflating in tech land, this morning's... More

Audit Notes: Financial Capture, Homeless, Amy Chua Criticizes WSJ

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 13, 2011 at 08:09 PM

Simon Johnson notes something big that Goldman Sachs dances around in its report on its internal culture released this week... More

Remapping the Debate on China’s Industrial Policy

Our rival has one. Where’s ours?

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 13, 2011 at 04:27 PM

Remapping Debate has an interesting piece on how the U.S. finds itself at the mercy of the Chinese for a... More

Audit Notes: Mortgage Servicers, Ghost Mall—China Style; The Joneses

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 13, 2011 at 11:53 AM

Andy Kroll of Mother Jones takes a look (UPDATE: took a look, I should say. This story is from a... More

The SEC’s Khuzami and That Citigroup Settlement

An anonymous letter adds to questions about a wrist slap

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 12, 2011 at 01:19 PM

Bloomberg News reported on Monday that the SEC's inspector general is investigating Robert Khuzami, its chief enforcement official, after getting... More

WSJ Spotlights Wage Declines of the Laid Off

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 11, 2011 at 08:41 PM

The Wall Street Journal is excellent today with this front-page examination of what the recession is doing to wages of... More

Bloomberg News Oversells and Underperforms on Toyota’s Decline

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 11, 2011 at 02:38 PM

Bloomberg News has a good idea to do a step-back on Toyota and how it's faring a year after its... More

Audit Notes: Ibanez Implications, The Daley Problem, Sbarro Sliced

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 10, 2011 at 08:29 PM

The Ibanez verdict in Massachusetts Supreme Court is yet more confirmation that the foreclosure scandal will have serious repercussions for... More

The Wall Street Journal Plays Stenographer to Chris Christie

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 10, 2011 at 01:43 PM

Is this a news story in The Wall Street Journal or a press release from the Office of the Governor... More

Audit Notes: Pension Woes, Inequality, Another Ratings Fiasco

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 7, 2011 at 07:42 PM

Yves Smith takes on the media's reporting on state pension woes: "If you live in the world according to the... More

Daley Latest in a Long Line of Business-Friendly Obama Picks

A “conciliatory” move in an administration that’s seen plenty of them

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 7, 2011 at 11:43 AM

The press is calling President Obama's appointment of JPMorgan Chase's William Daley as his new chief of staff a conciliatory... More

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