Headline of the Year (So Far)

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 28, 2010 at 08:53 AM

Sometimes you just have to step back and admire the New York Post. Today is one of those days. Its... More

Audit Notes: WSJ Missed, WSJ Hit, SEC Porn

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 27, 2010 at 08:55 PM

Hedge-fund biggie David Einhorn ripped into The Wall Street Journal for that weird "Hedge Funds Pound Euro" story it... More

Greywolf, Timberwolf, Blackwolf?

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 27, 2010 at 06:52 PM

Matthew Goldstein of Reuters has been sniffing around Goldman Sach's Greywolf and Timberwolf transactions since last August. Timberwolf is the... More

But Why Didn’t Regulators Regulate?

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 27, 2010 at 02:03 PM

Bethany McLean mostly misses with her column in The New York Times on who's really to blame in the sordid... More

Audit Notes: WSJ Blotter, Deutsche CDOs, Wall Street Praised for Its Self Control

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 26, 2010 at 08:47 PM

The Wall Street Journal's much-anticipated New York section arrived today, but your humble Seattle Audit bureau didn't get it in... More

Apple’s Aggression Against the Press (Yep, Gizmodo Counts)

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 26, 2010 at 06:30 PM

Gawker Media's Gizmodo got hold of a lost iPhone prototype last week after paying the person who found it $5,000.... More

FT Buries the Lede on Ex-SEC Officials and Goldman

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 26, 2010 at 04:52 PM

I did a double-take this weekend while reading the Financial Times. The paper put out a story headlined "Handling of... More

Chris Ware Shows Fortune the Mirror on the 500

Limits to what can be said in the friendly confines of the business press

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 26, 2010 at 09:57 AM

Surely, the times call for pointed critiques of corporate America. Fortune commissioned the cartoonist Chris Ware to propose a cover... More

Audit Notes: Ritholtz, Google Spies, Schumer Shies on Shilling

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 23, 2010 at 05:26 PM

Barry Ritholtz writes a superb post on the Goldman Sachs Abacus scandal. Wall Street loves complexity because it either tricks... More

WSJ Blows the Ratings-Agencies Story

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 23, 2010 at 04:26 PM

The Wall Street Journal does a terrible job today of covering the ratings-agency investigation news, which is a big deal... More

The Times Forgets Its Own Goldman Reporting

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 23, 2010 at 10:42 AM

One key part of Goldman Sachs's defense in the Abacus scandal is that it lost a pile of money on... More

Audit Notes: Michael Lewis, Sebastian Mallaby, Bill Black

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 22, 2010 at 06:05 PM

Michael Lewis explains very clearly to the too-clever-by-half folks over at Goldman Sachs (an Audit funder) why what they did... More

Reuters’s Beefed-Up Enterprise Reporting Is Paying Off

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 22, 2010 at 02:07 PM

Reuters and Murray Waas are at it again with another great health-care investigation. It shows how WellPoint, the second-largest health... More

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