Audit Notes: Greenspan’s Gall, Presidentializing Markets, Megabanks

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 22, 2010 at 08:13 PM

Barry Ritholtz wrote an excellent post explaining to Alan Greenspan why, yes, his low-interest-rate policies were critical in the creation... More

Murdoch’s Unhealthy Obsession

Taking on The New York Times isn’t risk-free for the Journal

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

Richard Pérez-Peña has several interesting bits in his piece on the soon-to-commence Battle for New York between his own New... More

Audit Notes: Better Cohan, Ernst Whopper, WSJ Walkback

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 19, 2010 at 07:00 PM

I was highly critical of a William D. Cohan piece in the Times two weeks ago pleading for mercy for... More

Pittman-Bloomberg Fed Lawsuit Scores Again

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 19, 2010 at 02:26 PM

Bloomberg has won another victory in its battle to force the Federal Reserve to reveal details of its multi-trillion-dollar bailouts—ones... More

Newser, The Fly on the Wall, and Aggregation

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 19, 2010 at 10:30 AM

Rarely will you see an aggregator state his business model so forthrightly as Michael Wolff, founder of Newser, does today... More

Audit Notes: Hiltzik on Lehman, Regulator Bonuses, iPad Ads

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 18, 2010 at 07:52 PM

Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik pulls a non-Repo 105 angle out of the Valukas Report on Lehman Brothers' collapse:... More

Another New York Judge Embarrasses the SEC

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 18, 2010 at 04:07 PM

Will Judge William Pauley III now join Judge Jed Rakoff as one of the few heroes of the crisis? The... More

Problems in an NYT Column

The paper quoted anonymous sources on a Lehman whistleblower but offered no chance for a response

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 18, 2010 at 10:15 AM

There are some real journalistic lapses in a New York Times column Tuesday that quoted anonymous sources about a Lehman... More

Audit Notes (All-Lehman Edition): Round-Trip, Clueless, Felix on Fire

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 17, 2010 at 06:55 PM

Francine McKenna of Re: The Auditors weighs in on the Chittum/Carney fracas over Lehman prosecutions. She's on the side of... More

Reuters Is Excellent in Digging Up a Health Insurer’s Tactics

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 17, 2010 at 05:28 PM

Reuters has an eye-opening investigation today showing how the health-insurance company Assurant Health (formerly called Fortis) systematically targeted sick patients... More

WSJ on a New Municipal “Move Your Money” Push

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 17, 2010 at 10:41 AM

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent story this morning on a nascent trend among municipalities to put their money... More

Audit Notes: Battle of NYC, Fed, Complexity, Big Mac Subsidies

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 16, 2010 at 08:38 PM

About the last thing we need now is a newspaper war, but Rupert Murdoch is Rupert Murdoch, so here we... More

Leeway for Lehman Brothers

Clusterstock’s Carney trips all over himself arguing against prosecutions

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 16, 2010 at 10:33 AM

I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that John Carney thinks "We Should Not Criminally Prosecute Lehman Executives." After all, this... More

Audit Notes: Strong Leder, Online Ads, CNBC Deathmatch

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 15, 2010 at 07:38 PM

— The Wall Street Journal has a very good leder today looking at how the dearth of credit is crimping... More

Blogs Beat the Press on the Lehman Brothers Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 15, 2010 at 04:20 PM

And just like that the Lehman Brothers scandal drops off the front pages. And not just the front pages—the section... More

Michael Lewis Drops Some Wisdom on Wall Street

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 15, 2010 at 04:44 AM

I haven't read Michael Lewis's sure-to-be blockbuster The Big Short yet, but everybody ought to watch his appearance on 60... More

Audit Notes: Google “Grandeur,” Toxic Pet, Stop the Presses?

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 12, 2010 at 05:28 PM

Valleywag's Ryan Tate hammers Google about its "Six Delusions of Grandeur." Tate points to this stunning quote in Fortune from... More

The Lehman Scandal Breaks Wide Open

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 12, 2010 at 01:38 PM

Will Repo 105 be the Chewco and JEDI of this crisis, and are we finally about to see some people... More

Audit Notes: Investigative Budgets, Cable BS, The Audit Outsourced

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 11, 2010 at 09:33 PM

Amount the Lehman Brothers court examiner spent to investigate that single company: $38 million. Amount Congress has budgeted for the... More

The Really Real S&P 500

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 11, 2010 at 05:54 PM

I wrote a post called "The Real Dow" a couple of months ago about how the press almost always fails... More