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Parsing the Latest Online-Charging Poll

There's yet another poll out there reporting the obvious: Most people say they won't pay for something they get for... More

Revisiting the Journal’s TBTF Citi Story

Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism calls me out for swallowing a Wall Street Journal story showing the Citigroup side in... More

Audit Notes: Frontrunning, Walk Away!, Housing (Still) Deteriorating

The New York Times reports that Goldman Sachs admitted in an email to clients it has traded ahead of its... More

Indirect Subsidies Are Bailouts, Too

Dan Gross at Slate pushes back against the false notion that the banks have paid back all their bailouts—a nasty... More

HuffPost Expands on the Obama Bank-Tax Plan

That bank-tax reported yesterday looks like it will be broader and tougher than initially reported. The Huffington Post quotes a... More

Audit Notes: Goner Jobs, Angelides Questions, More AIG

The WSJ warns that any recovery in employment is going to be slowed by the fact that many of the... More

BizWeek Lures Clicks with Bad Photoshop

This Bloomberg BusinessWeek slideshow on the best places to raise your kids for its is unintentionally (I think) funny. How... More

The Angelides Opportunity

The Angelides Commission starting tomorrow is a key moment in the financial crisis. If it turns out to be a... More

Audit Notes: Dealism, AIG SECrets, Fed Fights Bloomberg

The business-press criticism quote of the day goes to The New York Times for this gem from Eduardo Mestre, an... More

WSJ on Citi’s TBTF Money Pipeline

There are a few really interesting things in the the Journal's story today on Citigroup and some of the benefits... More

BW Focuses on the Temp Economy

BusinessWeek's good cover story this week looks at the temping of the American workforce. Wait a second, you say. Haven't... More

Times Shares

The idea of the day comes from Business Insider's Henry Blodget, who has some smart advice for Sulzbergers: Tap the... More

Audit Links: Jobless Stats, Reuters and SAC, LATe

The unemployment numbers came in worse than expected this morning and the Washington Post's Frank Ahrens points out that they're... More

WSJ Eyeballs Upcoming Bank of America Bonuses

The Wall Street Journal continues to spotlight the record—or near-record—pay coming on Wall Street. Remember Bank of America until recently... More

The Fed and AIG, Day Two

All too often the press seems to want to downplay stories broken by a competitor. So it's good to see... More

Thursday Links: More Fed/AIG, Reuters and SAC, Netflix

The New York Times's DealBook prints the Federal Reserve/AIG emails spotlighted in Bloomberg's scoop this morning, though as the FT's... More

WSJ Revisits the Carried-Interest Tax

What ever happened to the carried-interest tax? The Wall Street Journal looks at that today, reporting that hedge funds and... More

Bloomberg Continues to Lead on the Fed and AIG

Bloomberg has the story of the day today, an eye-raising scoop that the New York Federal Reserve, then headed by... More

Wednesday Links: Double Dip, Fed Failure, Chicago School

Randall W. Forsyth of Barron's is calling a double-dip recession, pointing to the declining money supply calculated by John Williams'... More

BW on How the Dems Watered Down Reform

Bloomberg's acquisition of BusinessWeek may be paying off for its journalism. The cover story in BW is by two Bloomberg... More

Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’

“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”

The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit

Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything

The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy

How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”

Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement

Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation

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