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Audit Notes: Bloomberg Blues, Fool’s Gold, TBTF Primer
June 8, 2010 07:53 PMI think this Bloomberg story is important. But I'm not exactly sure, because it's almost unreadable. Here's one reason it seems important: “The industry was self-financing, using loopholes in rules,” said Joseph Mason, a professor of finance at Louisiana... Continue reading
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ProPublica and WaPo on the Rotten Culture at BP
June 8, 2010 12:29 PMProPublica and the Washington Post team up for an investigation today on BP's history of flaunting environmental safety regulations. Particularly devastating: They use internal BP inquiries to show this. Combine this excellent report with the superb work by... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Links, Readability, Distractions, Wired
June 7, 2010 06:08 PMJason Fry weighs in on the Nicholas Carr links-as-distractions discussion, with a thoughtful post breaking down the issue. Fry says its about credibility, readability, and connectivity: Now that the flames have died down a bit, it might be... Continue reading
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HHS Gets Tough With Execs. What About the SEC?
June 7, 2010 12:19 PMThe Department of Health and Human Services is getting aggressive at rooting out fraud in Big Pharma, Fortune reports. From now on, individual executives risk being ejected from their jobs -- and perhaps even barred from the... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Around and a Roundup, Fed Capture, Newsday Cashflow
June 4, 2010 06:11 PMThe Journal has a good, creepy story on how the chemical companies are planning to take advantage of blowback from Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller, which has become dominant and which "superweeds" are increasingly becoming resistant to. So Monsanto engineers a... Continue reading
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WSJ Finds Some Traders Getting a Sneak Peek at Prices
June 4, 2010 12:30 PMThe Wall Street Journal has a new angle on high-frequency trading today, reporting that some trading firms pay exchanges for early access to stock prices—access that gives them a leg up on everybody else. The firms gain that advantage... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Fan/Fred Still?, Zuck Shucked, Labor-Standards Arbitrage
June 3, 2010 02:13 PMSome people are still hauling out the false argument that Fannie and Freddie caused the housing bubble and thus, the crash. Yes, Fan and Fred contributed (like nearly everyone touching housing), and they need to be seriously reformed or taken... Continue reading
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The Blogs Blast Buffett
June 3, 2010 12:44 PMThe news reporting this morning on Warren Buffett's testimony doesn't exactly move me. But the blogs sure are fun. Edmund L. Andrews of Capital Gains and Games hammers the Oracle of Omaha for turning into "an evasive, disingenuous, bumbling... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Gasparino, Claman, and Buffett; McClatchy; Labor Demonization
June 2, 2010 08:29 PMCharlie Gasparino of Fox Business News rakes Warren Buffett over the coals today for his hypocrisy on Moody's. This is hardly the first time he's talked his book, and usually reporters don't call him on it. Gasparino does... Continue reading
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FT Gives a New Starbucks the Section-Front Treatment
June 2, 2010 03:37 PMIt's not like there's a dearth of stories in financial journalism these days. So what is the Financial Times doing slapping a story about the New York Stock Exchange getting a Starbucks on the front of its Companies &... Continue reading
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WSJ iPad Numbers Are Looking Good
June 2, 2010 10:48 AMRupert Murdoch says The Wall Street Journal has 10,000 subscribers paying for the paper on the two-month-old iPad. That's an excellent start. What does it mean for revenue—assuming we can take Murdoch at his word (a big assumption, I... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Goldman’s Wells Notice, BP’s Wells Permits, Dogpile
June 1, 2010 05:31 PMMatthew Goldstein of Reuters reports that Goldman Sachs told Calpers, the California public-pension giant, in March that it wasn't under investigation—six months after the SEC served it a Wells Notice formally telling the bank it was indeed under investigation.... Continue reading
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Nick Carr and How Links Hurt Reading
June 1, 2010 12:57 PMNicholas Carr has a fascinating book excerpt in this month's Wired looking at what the Internet does to how we think. He's critical, as you can tell from his title: The Shallows. Carr points out—uncontroversially, I thought, when I... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Journal Greatness, The Shallows, Fortune Too Kind
May 28, 2010 05:09 PMThe Wall Street Journal drops part two of its series on how the BP catastrophe happened. I praised yesterday's devastating investigation of BP corner-cutting here. Today's is also outstanding—a cinematic reconstruction of the events that destroyed the Deep... Continue reading
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Missing the Paywall Point
May 28, 2010 03:01 PMThe Guardian's Roy Greenslade thinks we should take a lesson about paywalls from the Irish News, a 45,000-circulation daily that charges (a lot) to access its work on the Web. If you click on the Irish News website up... Continue reading
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AJC Stirring Up the Anti-Census Crowd with Falsehoods
May 28, 2010 10:00 AMDrudge is linking to an incendiary Atlanta Journal-Constitution blog post by former congressman Bob Barr. Barr claims in his headline that "Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence." Which sounds awfully fishy to anyone not cowering in... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Animal Farm Webified, Murdoch’s Paradox, Reform Hype
May 27, 2010 07:09 PMSpeaking of the Web and hyped headlines, McSweeney's has probably the best satire of the genre yet. Mike Lacher's piece, called "Great Literature Retitled To Boost Website Traffic," includes these gems: 7 Awesome Ways Barnyard... Continue reading
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Bad Redesigns
May 27, 2010 05:49 PMWhat's going on with these redesigns? There seems to be a movement afoot to declutter news websites' home pages. Problem is, it makes them harder to read and, thus, harder to navigate. I noticed it first several weeks ago with... Continue reading
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The Journal Excels on BP
May 27, 2010 12:33 PMThe Wall Street Journal unloads a huge, devastating investigation into the BP oil catastrophe this morning, finding that the company cut corners in several areas to get an over-budget, over-deadline project finished. The paper has been doing excellent work... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Corporate Welfare for BP, (Financial) Markets First, Facebook
May 26, 2010 07:25 PMThe Los Angeles Times has a terrific story pointing out that Washington larded up the oil companies with tax breaks five years ago for deep-sea drilling. At the time, drilling was already proceeding at a brisk pace, and industry... Continue reading
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