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

Gensler, Derivatives, and the Causes of the Crisis

A Times story brings up several critical points for coverage of Wall Street and reform

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 11, 2010 at 12:17 PM

The New York Times profiles Gary Gensler, the Goldman alum and former deregulation advocate who's now pursuing reform with the... More

Audit Notes: FT “News,” Overdrafts Over at BofA, No Marketwatchdog

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 10, 2010 at 10:31 PM

There they go again. The Financial Times has a scoop so big it thought it decided we media types couldn't... More

Cranston Attorney Now a Journal Star

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 10, 2010 at 03:30 PM

It's probably a bad sign if you're a Rhode Island lawyer who's the subject of two page-one Wall Street Journal... More

Times Peeks Inside CFPA Dealmaking

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 10, 2010 at 10:46 AM

The New York Times has a great scoop on the making of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency bill sausage. No... More

Audit Notes: Sorkin GOP, Multi-Task Meacham, Salmon, Simon

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2010 at 08:53 PM

Andrew Ross Sorkin dips his toe into political commentary today in his DealBook column. Maybe he should stick to mergers:... More

Big Money, No Funny

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2010 at 07:55 PM

I get that everybody's trying to hop on the video bandwagon now since ad CPMs are so much higher than... More

Credit Cards, Credit Scores, and Citigroup

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2010 at 05:13 PM

In case you didn't know it—the banks still have you over a barrel. David Lazarus of the Los Angeles Times... More

Lowenstein’s Consumer Protection Stinker

Faulty logic and a false choice on banks

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2010 at 04:31 AM

Roger Lowenstein is too contrarian for his own good with his latest Bloomberg column. He writes that "Smart Banks With... More