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   The Real Dow

   January 5, 2010 05:16 PM

   You rarely see anyone, much less the press, report stock returns in inflation-adjusted terms. As we pointed out in October when the Dow crossed 10,000 (yet again), that Dow 10,000 was really only Dow 7,714 in original Dow 10,000... Continue reading

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   NYT PINs Visa on Transaction Fees

   January 5, 2010 10:05 AM

   How screwed up does an industry have to be for competition to increase prices? That's the smart question at the center of The New York Times's latest entry in its solid Card Game series with PBS's Frontline. It... Continue reading

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   Monday Links: The Busted Decade, Hearst’s Skiff, Apple’s Tablet

   January 4, 2010 08:32 PM

   The Washington Post puts the economic disaster that was the 2000's into proper context with a story and some good graphics: There has been zero net job creation since December 1999. No previous decade going back to the 1940s... Continue reading

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   Tall Tales from Dubai

   January 4, 2010 03:47 PM

   The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is a quarter-mile taller than any other office or residential tower in the world. It's as tall as the World Trade Center's twin towers—stacked on top of each other. So a certain amount of awe... Continue reading

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   The Post Spotlights Secret-Chemicals Law

   January 4, 2010 09:52 AM

   The Washington Post has an eye-opening story this morning on "secret chemicals" concealed from everyone but a few EPA officials under a dubious law meant to protect inventions. The paper writes that one in five of the 84,000 chemicals... Continue reading

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   Best of 2009: Ryan Chittum

   December 31, 2009 12:37 PM

   1. Audit Interview: Mark Pittman "This is not business journalism’s finest hour. But it is our biggest opportunity ever." 2. Moral Force Pittman died on Thanksgiving at the top of his game and here's a remembrance of him:... Continue reading

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   GQ Revisits Murdoch’s Snatching of the Journal

   December 23, 2009 11:45 AM

   GQ has the story of the day in the business press—and not just because Audit Chief Dean Starkman and I are quoted in it. Nate Penn writes an oral history of the Murdoch takeover of The Wall Street Journal... Continue reading

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   About That Journal Citi Story

   December 23, 2009 09:32 AM

   Yesterday, I praised The Wall Street Journal for its fortitude in running a story saying hackers had stolen tens of millions of dollars from Citigroup in the face of a flat Citi denial. I assume good faith on the... Continue reading

9. The Audit

   Tuesday Links: Donations, WSJ Short-Arm, Goldie’s Corporate Welfare

   December 22, 2009 05:20 PM

   Steve Outing, like me, likes the idea of asking readers for donations. He just thinks The Miami Herald is going about it wrong, and lists why. He's right and has some good ideas—like targeting frequent users—on what the... Continue reading

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    Sorkin Is Good on TARP Payback Fees

    December 22, 2009 02:08 PM

    Andrew Ross Sorkin has a good column in the Times today looking at how bankers are making money off their government bailouts. Basically, the banks are issuing new shares to get money to pay off the federales. But they're... Continue reading

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    The Journal’s Citigroup Hacker Story

    December 22, 2009 09:52 AM

    The Wall Street Journal's fascinating scoop this morning on Russian hackers stealing tens of millions of dollars from Citigroup is made all the more interesting journalistically by the fact that Citi just flat denies the story. You've got to... Continue reading

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    Monday Links: Brass Replica, CDFI Funding, Reuters Caves?

    December 21, 2009 06:46 PM

    The Wall Street Journal's Greg Zuckerman, with a new book out on a guy who made billions betting against subprime, has an A1 story in the Journal today on a guy who made billions betting against "a repeat of... Continue reading

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    The Post on Where the Fed Went Wrong

    December 21, 2009 03:53 PM

    It's good for Ben Bernanke that his re-confirmation as Federal Reserve chief is all but assured, because the Washington Post has an excellent story reviewing how Bernanke and the Fed have gotten so much wrong in the crisis. This... Continue reading

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    LAT’s Kristof Keeps an Eye on the Overdraft Racket

    December 21, 2009 01:07 PM

    The press too often loses interest in a story once some change is done to appease the restive, however incomplete it might be. So it's good to see the Kathy M. Kristof going the other way and hammering the... Continue reading

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    Bloomberg Scoop on Twitter’s Search Engine Payday

    December 21, 2009 09:57 AM

    We finally know how much Twitter got paid by Google and Microsoft's Bing to index its content: $25 million. Bloomberg gets the scoop this morning on the number, though it's not totally clear how much the deal is worth.... Continue reading

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    Friday Links: Under the TARP. WaPo Results, Shadow Space

    December 18, 2009 05:19 PM

    The Wall Street Journal does some solid reporting on the machinations behind the TARP exits. This is interesting: Some Citigroup executives blame the Treasury for the flop, and say the government shouldn't be surprised by the weak performance, say... Continue reading

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    Walk the Line or Walk Away?

    December 18, 2009 03:28 PM

    Blogworld's got an interesting back-and-forth going on about the morality of walking away from a mortgage. I've got to admit, I instinctively sympathize with the Megan McArdle line of thinking—that if you promise to pay for something, and you're... Continue reading

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    Going Beyond Glass-Steagall II

    December 18, 2009 10:17 AM

    John McCain is getting all mavericky again. He's now on board for the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall and the breakup of the financial supermarket megabanks. Barack Obama, meanwhile, thinks that's too much actual change, while Phil Gramm is off getting the... Continue reading

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    Thursday Links: Ain’t Too Proud to Beg, Fan/Fred, Tablets

    December 17, 2009 07:51 PM

    I've suggested this for a good while now, only half in jest, and now The Miami Herald is doing it: It's putting up a tip jar. Look, it won't get much money, but what can it... Continue reading

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    More on Why We Won’t Tax Banker Bonuses

    December 17, 2009 05:10 PM

    Nobody loves a critic, they say, and from my experience at The Audit it's mostly true. So I love it when journalists take our criticisms in stride. Heidi N. Moore responds to my post this morning questioning whether... Continue reading

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