WSJ’s Good Idea on Abacus Needed More Context

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 22, 2010 at 11:41 AM

I like that The Wall Street Journal zeroes in on the specific homeowners at the core of the Abacus bet.... More

Audit Notes: Yes, There Was a Housing Bubble; Magnetar; Facebook

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 21, 2010 at 10:58 PM

Dean Baker bizarrely dismisses the role Wall Street chicanery had in inflating the bubble: It Was the Housing Bubble: Not... More

Goldman’s Forked Tongue

NYT and WSJ blow up a bank defense on the Paulson-Abacus deal

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 21, 2010 at 09:43 AM

Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal punctured one of Goldman Sach's self-defenses in the Abacus scandal: That it lost $90 million... More

Bloomberg’s One-Source Wonders

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 21, 2010 at 04:27 AM

Take a TV interviewee, type up what they say, and print a one-source story. That's a bad recipe for journalism.... More

“Something Doesn’t Have to Be Illegal to Be Wrong”

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2010 at 09:04 PM

Today I saw three major financial commentators make the point or something thereabouts that Wall Street's doesn't have to break... More

Audit Notes: Goldman Dig, Fox Biz Strikes, Super-Senior Slip-up

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2010 at 08:52 PM

Matthew Goldstein of Reuters digs out some interesting information on the Goldman scandal. He names Gail Kreitwoman as one of... More

WSJ’s (Soon CNBC’s) Kelly Advances the Goldman Story

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2010 at 06:52 PM

Boy, losing Kate Kelly is a big blow to The Wall Street Journal. She's had a hand in a disproportionate... More

Apple’s Speech Policies Should Still Worry the Press

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2010 at 12:19 PM

Apple has asked Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore to "resubmit" his iPhone/iPad application for approval, with Steve Jobs saying it... More

Audit Notes: SEC and Stanford, Goldman and Wells, Murdoch’s Personal Feuds

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2010 at 08:33 PM

You've got to love this SEC investigation. I mean, of the SEC, not by it. Talking Points Memo revisits an... More

Springtime for Investigations as the SEC Acts

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2010 at 03:18 PM

It looks from the newspapers this morning like the dam has finally broken on prosecuting the crisis scandals. The New... More

Audit Notes: Goldman, Goldman, Goldman (What Else?)

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 16, 2010 at 05:30 PM

Marian Wang of ProPublica has a sharp follow-up to the blockbuster news that the SEC is charging Goldman Sachs with... More

Angelides, The Audit, and Unfair Lending

An ex-regulator’s testimony to the commission needs examining

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 16, 2010 at 04:40 PM

Comptroller of The Audit Dean Starkman spent three months last year poring over nearly a decade of financial-press archives to... More

Goldman Sachs Fraud Charges Are a Business-Press Win

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 16, 2010 at 12:13 PM

The New York Times's Louise Story and Gretchen Morgenson score a major scoop this morning with news that the SEC... More

Audit Notes: First FOIA Bank Run?, Demand a Second Opinion, Doctor

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2010 at 06:58 PM

The big banks are continuing to fight Bloomberg's Freedom of Information lawsuit against the Fed, which would force it to... More

It’s Time for the Press to Push Back Against Apple

Yank iPad apps unless Apple cedes complete control over the right to publish

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2010 at 05:21 PM

The Nieman Journalism Lab's Laura McGann has a disturbing report that ought to perk up every news organization that sees... More

Missing the Mortgage-Mod Story

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2010 at 11:23 AM

Still think The Huffington Post is just an aggregator of lefty opinion and tabloid fluff? Okay, it's still that, but... More

Audit Notes: Say What, CME?; Magnetar Wrong; A Monster, All Right

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 14, 2010 at 06:10 PM

Felix Salmon examines the newly released unredacted version of the Valukas Report and finds what he calls a scandal in... More

Chittum, CJR Tweet Fleet Caught Napping

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 14, 2010 at 09:51 AM

New York Times business editor Larry Ingrassia and TalkingBizNews's Chris Roush take me to the woodshed this morning for an... More

Audit Notes: Lehman Inquiries Spike, Salmon on Blogging, Derivatives

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2010 at 06:37 PM

Charlie Gasparino of Fox Business News reports that investigators are now zooming in on three areas of Lehman's accounting, including... More

Krugman Throws Stone at Sorkin from His Glass House

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2010 at 03:15 PM

It's New York Times columnist vs. New York Times columnist. Paul Krugman hammers his colleague Andrew Ross Sorkin for getting... More