Audit Notes: Glades Crusade, Greenspan Deflects, Whatever Happened to…?

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 8, 2010 at 09:18 PM

The New York Times's excellent investigation into Florida's deal for thousands of acres in the Everglades finds an awful lot... More

Bloomberg Shows Banks Teetering with Market Prices

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 8, 2010 at 03:05 PM

Some good reporting by Bloomberg today shows how the banking system is dependent on make-believe accounting to help prop it... More

Before Preemption There Was Riegle-Neal

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 8, 2010 at 09:51 AM

That may be the least-SEO-friendly headline of all time, but hey, we're not the Huffington Post! This from the Journal's... More

Audit Notes: God of Journalism, Pandit Panned, Wolff’s Own Medicine

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 5, 2010 at 06:24 PM

The new-hire newsroom memo has long been a hotbed of puffery—a place where journalists consistently put aside their cynicism and... More

Carrying Water for White-Collar Criminals

William D. Cohan pleads for a Goldman convict to be pardoned

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 5, 2010 at 03:45 PM

Edward Ericson Jr. of Baltimore City Paper points us to a long, weird William D. Cohan blog piece at New... More

Revisiting That Hyped WSJ Hedge-Fund Story

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 5, 2010 at 05:20 AM

Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran an odd story on its front page headlined "Hedge Funds Pound Euro"—something Felix... More

Audit Notes: Bennett on Health Care, Fortune, WaPo Digital, Facebook

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 4, 2010 at 07:24 PM

Bloomberg editor Amanda Bennett has a remarkable story today recounting her husband's battle with cancer, how much it cost to... More

TNR on Obama and Regulation

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 4, 2010 at 05:55 PM

Secretary of Audit Dean Starkman has often criticized the press for its lackluster coverage of regulation, while acknowledging that it's... More

CNBC Millionaires Don’t Believe in Predatory Lending

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 4, 2010 at 04:21 AM

Barry Ritholtz points to this ludicrous CNBC segment where everyone gangs up on Janet Tavakoli for pointing out the obvious:... More

Audit Notes: Monopoly Culture, Health Care, SNLers on CFPA

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 3, 2010 at 09:27 PM

Thomas Frank reviews an interesting-looking book on monopolies in the American economy—one that argues that there are more than you... More

The NYT Muffs the Second-Day Fed-CFPA Story

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 3, 2010 at 04:20 PM

The New York Times tries to play catch-up on the proposal to put the Consumer Financial Protection Agency inside the... More

Corporate Welfare Columns, Yea and Nay

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 3, 2010 at 09:51 AM

The Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein takes on corporate welfare at the local level today and shows how such a column... More

Audit Notes: Deflation, SEC Wrist Slap, ARMs

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 2, 2010 at 06:53 PM

It seems odd that the press hasn't written more about the threat of deflation. Paul Krugman, no inflation hawk he,... More

Newspapers’ Online Ads Are Worse Than You Think

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 2, 2010 at 03:22 PM

Martin Langeveld points out something interesting in Scripps's fourth-quarter earnings: Those already-dismal online advertising numbers you've seen for newspapers? They're... More

Fed Up, Consumers Down

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 2, 2010 at 06:00 AM

The Federal Reserve isn't exactly known as a friend of the little guy. And for good reason. So it borders... More

Audit Notes: CDS Ban, WSJ v. NYT, A No-Layoffs Policy

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 1, 2010 at 08:19 PM

Wolfgang Munchau asks in the Financial Times why it's still legal to buy credit-default swaps when you don't own the... More

The Unemployed on the Payday Loan Treadmill

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 1, 2010 at 02:50 PM

The Los Angeles Times reports that payday lenders are feasting on the jobless, taking huge chunks of their unemployment checks... More

Breakingviews Says This Out of Love, Goldman

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 1, 2010 at 10:51 AM

Shorter Reuters Breakingviews: "The great Goldman Sachs, despite its greatness, should apologize for not living up to its higher standards... More

Audit Notes: North Dakota Tea, WSJ Heds, AP Charge

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 26, 2010 at 07:07 PM

This is good bread-and-butter business reporting by The Wall Street Journal. It reports on an oil boom unfolding in North... More

No Context on the Fed’s New Fangs

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 26, 2010 at 10:25 AM

Since when has the Federal Reserve been an investigative pit bull? Since never. But don't look to the major papers... More