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1. The Audit

   The Goldman Sachs of online retail

   July 13, 2012 06:50 AM

   The Financial Times is running a good series this week on Amazon, one of the country's most fascinating and frustrating companies. This piece on how Amazon has transformed itself from an online book retailer into a retail and outsourcing... Continue reading

2. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Reuters on Chesapeake, Krugman on CNBC, Waldman on banks

   July 12, 2012 06:50 AM

   Reuters continues its tremendous investigation into natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy and its CEO Aubrey McClendon. Brian Grow and Joshua Schneyer report on yet more Chesapeake emails between it and its competitor Encana: The emails show the competitors... Continue reading

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   Audit Notes: The Fed and The Economist on Libor, Goldman and Louisville

   July 11, 2012 06:50 AM

   Reuters's Carrick Mollenkamp, who broke the Libor scandal open in 2008 with Mark Whitehouse when they were at The Wall Street Journal, reports that the Federal Reserve was told in 2007 and 2008 that there were serious... Continue reading

4. The Audit

   Manufactured quotes

   July 10, 2012 06:06 PM

   Two weeks ago The New York Times wheeled out that old chestnut of Great Recession-era economic reporting: Companies can't find workers, despite high unemployment. This one was mercifully buried inside Business Day, but it got 1,200 words all... Continue reading

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   Audit Notes: Daily Planet holds up, record collapse, presidential fundraising

   July 10, 2012 06:50 AM

   This Onion article on the outdated Daily Planet is spot on: Frustrated fans of the Superman comic book said Monday the continued financial stability and cultural relevance of the series' Daily Planet newspaper is now the most unrealistic part... Continue reading

6. The Audit

   Audit Notes: NYT on JPM, The Guardian’s future, Big Lie of the crisis

   July 7, 2012 12:44 AM

   The New York Times reports that JPMorgan Chase pressured its brokers to steer its retail clients into its own investment funds—even when they were worse than others on the market. “I was selling JPMorgan funds that often had weak... Continue reading

7. The Audit

   The Economist on the Libor scandal

   July 6, 2012 02:08 PM

   If you haven't paid much attention yet to the Libor scandal, this Economist piece will get you caught up quickly. Long story short, the British bank Barclays paid nearly half a billion dollars to regulators after it was caught... Continue reading

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   Audit Notes: Dark Ages, Mitt and Rupert, Chesapeake’s taxes

   July 6, 2012 06:50 AM

   The Wall Street Journal editorial page's Stephen Moore uses the power outage in DC as a warning about what life would be like if "the greens" seize power. Environmentalists, you see, aren't just opposed to pollution and catastrophic climate... Continue reading

9. The Audit

   Reuters’s Chesapeake Energy drumbeat

   July 5, 2012 06:50 AM

   Reuters continues to draw a bead on Chesapeake Energy and its CEO Aubrey McClendon, whose scalp it will be claiming shortly, reporting that the company schemed to collude with a competitor to keep from bidding up drilling leases on... Continue reading

10. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Glass-Steagall II, beyond paywalls, warehouse work

    July 3, 2012 08:04 PM

    This is important: The Financial Times editorial page comes out in favor of a Glass-Steagall II that would once again separate investment banking from commercial/retail banking: The clash between retail and investment banking has always been evident. What... Continue reading

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    Audit Notes: Spain’s Dilemma, Brits’ outrage on Libor, Audit Radio

    July 3, 2012 01:32 AM

    Martin Wolf of the Financial Times has an excellent blog post pointing out how wrong Germany and Co. are about how government profligacy and the welfare state are at the heart of the euro crisis. Certainly those are a... Continue reading

12. The Audit

    Inflating the regulatory state

    July 2, 2012 11:00 AM

    A Bloomberg News story last week on how the folks who oversee the regulators are overmatched these days raises a question: What's a regulator? Here's the lede (emphasis mine) As the U.S. government’s regulatory bureaucracy has ballooned, one agency... Continue reading

13. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Insufferable in Aspen, Libor, Amazon Marketplace

    June 29, 2012 08:07 PM

    CNBC's John Carney finally heard an idea that intrigued him at the Aspen Ideas Festival: Ending universal suffrage: His argument had two parts. The first was that some people simply are not ready for democracy. They have no functional... Continue reading

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    Audit Notes: Euro dissolution risk, Reuters tailed, Exxon and the press

    June 28, 2012 11:56 PM

    Simon Johnson, who has warned loudly for years about the critical danger posed by too-big-to-fail banks, as well as their chokehold on the government and the economy, writes at Bloomberg View that the U.S. financial system isn't... Continue reading

15. The Audit

    The Libor lie unravels

    June 28, 2012 03:00 PM

    Way back in September 2007, the Financial Times's Gillian Tett started raising questions about the benchmark London Interbank Offered Rate—Libor—a critical benchmark gauge that measures how much banks charge to lend to each other. Tett noted that: In particular,... Continue reading

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    Audit Notes: News Corp. split edition

    June 27, 2012 08:06 PM

    The Financial Times's John Gapper has the best take on what Rupert Murdoch's bustup of News Corporation means: Some US investors believe that the BSkyB deal could be put back on the table under the new structure. That is... Continue reading

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    News Corp. ponders a split

    June 27, 2012 06:50 AM

    Shareholders have been carping for years that Rupert Murdoch should get rid of his newspapers and focus on the real moneymakers. So word that he's seriously considering that sent the company's shares up sharply yesterday, rolling back some of the... Continue reading

18. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Gannett profits, Spiegel grilling, private equity

    June 27, 2012 02:37 AM

    At least Gannett is optimistic about the next few years, The Wall Street Journal reports (emphasis mine): Gannett, publisher of USA Today and the largest U.S. newspaper network by circulation, reaffirmed last week it expects revenue to rise 2%... Continue reading

19. The Audit

    Bernanke goes mostly unheard on spending (UPDATED)

    June 26, 2012 06:50 AM

    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, yet again, publicly called for spending (ADDING: deficit spending, I should say. Bernanke has talked about both programs and tax cuts) from Congress. Yet again, much of the press ignored him. Here's Bernanke in... Continue reading

20. The Audit

    The WSJ bakes a bogus trend

    June 25, 2012 06:50 AM

    The Wall Street Journal has noticed that some people outside midtown Manhattan buy their wedding cakes from grocery stores: Now appearing at wedding receptions: the supermarket cake. Publix, Safeway and other grocers have started to muscle their way into... Continue reading

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