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1. The Audit

   Compensation Complaints

   April 6, 2010 10:28 AM

   The Wall Street Journal reports that Wall Street pay hit a record (asterisk attached) last year at $140 billion. That's breathtaking. Put the economy in a near-depression, put nearly 10 million Americans out of work, put taxpayers on the... Continue reading

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   Backwards Steps by the WSJ and NYT on iPad

   April 5, 2010 04:11 PM

   I compared the design and content of the Times and Wall Street Journal on the iPad earlier. Now let's take a look at how you interact with their apps. The early signs are somewhat worrisome, implying that these two... Continue reading

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   IPad Review: New York Times vs. Wall Street Journal

   April 5, 2010 01:55 PM

   First of all, let me say that the iPad is indeed a Big Deal. All those journalism-future discussions you've had over the years about truly portable electronic newspapers have materialized for the first time. And that has potentially huge implications.... Continue reading

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   Audit Notes: Fed Foe of Big Banks, Executive Pay, Credit Tricks

   April 2, 2010 07:31 PM

   The Huffington Post's Shahien Nasiripour interviews Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig, a fierce opponent of too big to fail, who, among other things: Lambasted the tilted playing field that benefits Wall Street banks over Main Street banks;... Continue reading

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   Krugman’s Too Big to Fail Straw Man

   April 2, 2010 05:34 PM

   Paul Krugman has a poorly argued column today setting up straw men to argue his case for regulation. This is pretty egregious: Even among those who really do want reform, however, there’s a major debate about what’s really essential.... Continue reading

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   SEC and You Shall Not Find

   April 2, 2010 02:43 PM

   What is the SEC good for? That's what Bloomberg's Jon Weil asks. Good question. Why did it take a court-appointed examiner to do for Lehman what the SEC should have done long ago? Here’s what boggles the mind. Before... Continue reading

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   (Almost) All-Ivy Audit Notes: The Corporation, Repo 105, Complexity Trap

   April 1, 2010 05:47 PM

   Justin Fox of the Harvard Business Review has the most interesting read of the day, an interview with historian Brian Murphy, who's studied early American corporations, and says the Founders would be appalled by how corporate power and status... Continue reading

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   Reuters’ Imaginary WSJ/NYT Price War

   April 1, 2010 05:31 AM

   Reuters gets a story on the upcoming Wall Street Journal/New York Times Battle for New York all wrong. And PaidContent amplifies it. Here's the Reuters headline: WSJ cuts prices in battle with New York Times And PaidContent's... Continue reading

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   Google Is Not a Heroic Defender of Privacy

   April 1, 2010 04:16 AM

   The New York Times reports that a coalition, including companies like Google, is trying to push tougher privacy laws for digital information. Tougher privacy laws for the government, that is—not for the private corporations like Google and Facebook that... Continue reading

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    Audit Notes: NYTPad, Perp Walks, Warren’s War

    April 1, 2010 01:28 AM

    What will a newspaper look like on the iPad? Here's a blurry sneak peek of screenshots of The New York Times app via 9to5Mac: Continue reading

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    Bloomberg on the CDO Shuffle That Helped Break AIG

    March 31, 2010 10:52 PM

    Bloomberg dropped a major investigation today on the AIG collapse, shedding much-needed light on the conflicted role of CDO managers in the crisis—something that's gotten too little coverage. Of course, Goldman Sachs (an Audit funder) is involved. But Bloomberg... Continue reading

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    Big Hole in an NYT Story on Oil Prices

    March 31, 2010 05:25 PM

    The New York Times writes that oil prices have been remarkably stable over the last year, settling into what it calls a "sweet spot" for the economy. But the story has a major missing piece in its discussion of... Continue reading

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    A Tribune Lecture on Indebtedness

    March 31, 2010 11:25 AM

    The Chicago Tribune scolds the government for taking on too much debt. And the paper knows whereof it speaks. Boy howdy! After all, the company is in bankruptcy. Not that it tells readers that. For many decades, U.S.... Continue reading

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    Demolishing the Banks’ Anti-Consumer Spin

    March 30, 2010 06:37 PM

    The banking industry has helped water down consumer financial protection by arguing that consumer protection is a job best done by bank regulators, since the banks already have them captured. Oh wait, that's the real, unspoken reason. The spoken one... Continue reading

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    Was the Citi Bailout Really a Good Deal?

    March 30, 2010 11:29 AM

    Dean Baker pointed out a myopic Washington Post story on Saturday reporting that the Treasury will make a several-billion-dollar profit on its Citigroup bailout. It's worth pushing back on this meme, especially since The Wall Street Journal... Continue reading

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    Audit Notes: Unfair Size Advantage, Bumped Down, WSJ Win

    March 29, 2010 06:09 PM

    Reuters Breakingviews finds another unfair advantage for the too-big-to-fail banks: They're paying less interest for deposits than their smaller competitors—a lot less: The interest rates paid on those deposits vary widely. In the fourth quarter of 2009, institutions with... Continue reading

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    Getting Foxy with Sulzberger at the WSJ

    March 29, 2010 09:37 AM

    Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff reeled in a stunner this weekend from The Wall Street Journal: Well, on the front page of the Journal’s Weekend section this morning is a feature on how women from healthier populations prefer feminine-looking... Continue reading

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    The WSJ’s Confusing Subscription Prices

    March 29, 2010 09:12 AM

    I wrote yesterday that The Wall Street Journal's iPad pricing doesn't make sense. The paper will charge $17.99 a month for the app, while it charges less than half that for a WSJ.com subscription and $9.92 a month... Continue reading

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    Audit Notes: Predators on the Block, iPad Pushback, Reuters on Toyota

    March 26, 2010 07:21 PM

    The Wall Street Journal has a nice story about how slow-going it's been slimming down Citigroup. But what struck me was two businesses mentioned here that were the predatory foundation of the company, as Dean Starkman pointed out... Continue reading

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    The Dead Go On the Record in The Wall Street Journal

    March 26, 2010 05:39 PM

    A Wall Street Journal story yesterday on the death of Apple director Jerome York quoted eye-opening remarks York made to the paper more than three months ago. What's odd is the Journal didn’t explain to readers why it... Continue reading

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