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1. The Audit

   Friday Links: EPA Enforcers, Chamber, Foreclosures Soar

   October 16, 2009 06:45 PM

   The New York Times's investigative series on polluted water continued to get results. The EPA says it will overhaul its enforcement of the Clean Water Act, meaning it says it will actually enforce it. — Steven Pearlstein looks... Continue reading

2. The Audit

   Greenspan Joins the Too-Big-to-Fail Fight

   October 16, 2009 05:19 PM

   Alan Greenspan has had his legacy forever tarnished by the financial crisis, the conditions for which it's almost unanimously agreed were created or at least ignored by him. We once knew Greenspan as the Randian free-market fundamentalist he was for... Continue reading

3. The Audit

   LA Times on the Upside of the Falling Dollar

   October 16, 2009 12:49 PM

   I like this Los Angeles Times story this morning reporting why the falling dollar might be good for the country—something that's counterintuitive if you read much of the press. And there are serious tradeoffs. But, speaking of trade, the... Continue reading

4. The Audit

   Reporting the CFPA Legislation

   October 16, 2009 10:17 AM

   The New York Times leads its coverage of the financial-reform legislation with the news that the House Financial Services Committee gutted the Consumer Financial Protection Act by exempting all non-ginormous banks from the agency's oversight. Reporter Stephen Labaton emphasizes... Continue reading

5. The Audit

   Thursday Links: Dow 7,714, Student Loan Bailout, Lobbyists

   October 15, 2009 07:42 PM

   David Weidner has a good take on Dow 10,000 (Part XXVI), emphasizing it represents a "lost decade of stock investing." He points out that, counting inflation, you'd need a 72 percent jump in the broader S&P 500 index... Continue reading

6. The Audit

   Nieman, Galbraith on the Power Problem

   October 15, 2009 04:51 PM

   Nieman Watchdog asks "Where's the reporting on the fraud that led to the crash?" Funny, The Audit, and especially Audit Lead Prosecutor Dean Starkman, has been wondering that for a long while now. John Hanrahan writes that economist... Continue reading

7. The Audit

   Most of the Press Misses Fed Overdraft News

   October 15, 2009 10:05 AM

   The Wall Street Journal and USA Today have one of the biggest news stories of the day: The Federal Reserve is planning to upend the overdraft racket by forcing banks to allow customers to "opt in" rather than... Continue reading

8. The Audit

   Wednesday Links: Crooked Heart, No Smell, Paying for News

   October 14, 2009 06:57 PM

   Joe Nocera, fresh off slamming banks on Saturday, makes fools of them today on their line that they didn't cause the crisis, publishing fliers JPMorgan Chase sent out four years ago pitching mortgage brokers on how far Chase's... Continue reading

9. The Audit

   Geithner’s Aides and Wall Street Pay

   October 14, 2009 04:05 PM

   I want to applaud some solid enterprise work at Bloomberg and the Journal and see if we can play one off the other to find a bigger point. First, Bloomberg has an excellent story today pointing out that two... Continue reading

10. The Audit

    BusinessWeek to Grow—Really!

    October 14, 2009 01:21 PM

    Fortune and Forbes better look out. BusinessWeek, just a couple of months ago given decent odds to disappear from the face of the earth, isn't even going to go bi-weekly or online-only—it's going to get bigger. Just weeks ago,... Continue reading

11. The Audit

    WSJ on Eminent Domain in Brooklyn

    October 14, 2009 10:24 AM

    It's almost never a bad idea to do an eminent-domain story, especially the Kelo-type ones that pit the government in league with corporations to abuse private property rights. So it's good to see The Wall Street Journal this morning... Continue reading

12. The Audit

    Tuesday Links: Scrubbed Dirty, Game Theory, Taxes

    October 13, 2009 07:10 PM

    Charles Duhigg's investigation of the state of the nation's water continues today with an excellent piece on page one of The New York Times. Those scrubbers keeping emissions from going into the air? Yeah, out of the air, into... Continue reading

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    BizWeek Emblematic of the Fall of Print

    October 13, 2009 06:37 PM

    The big business-media news this week will be BusinessWeek's sale to Bloomberg for $2 million to $5 million plus the assumption of liabilities, in what is surely the best outcome the magazine and its newsroom could have. While it's... Continue reading

14. The Audit

    NYT’s Sorkin Is Confused on Goldman Bonuses

    October 13, 2009 04:27 PM

    Clueless paragraph of the day: But we can’t have it both ways, either. At one moment, many in the nation crossed their fingers hoping Goldman and the rest of Wall Street would be saved to halt the country’s downward spiral.... Continue reading

15. The Audit

    Stimulate This!

    October 13, 2009 01:55 PM

    Like Daniel Gross, I get the impression that people, including many journalists, just can't get their heads around the stimulus. Now, it is an $800 billion program, so it's an awful big thing to grok. But if you boil... Continue reading

16. The Audit

    Monday Links: Reuters Investigates, Debt Iceberg, USAT

    October 12, 2009 05:58 PM

    Chris Roush reports that Reuters is hiring some investigative reporters, a welcome development in a time of reduced journalistic ambitions. But to keep it in perspective, "Howell said that there will be no specific investigative reporting unit." —... Continue reading

17. The Audit

    WaPo: Why BofA Lags on Mortgage Redos

    October 12, 2009 04:42 PM

    The Washington Post asks why Bank of America is so far behind everyone else on its mortgage-modification program. It's only modified 11 percent of its eligible mortgages, one-third what Citigroup's done, and less than half the 27 percent JPMorganChase... Continue reading

18. The Audit

    Maremont and the Journal Hammer Option Schemes

    October 12, 2009 10:07 AM

    Anytime The Wall Street Journal's news pages can make the editorial side spit up their eggs benedict, well, that has the makings of a good story to me. The paper does that today with an excellent page-one investigation of... Continue reading

19. The Audit

    WSJ and Reuters on High-Frequency Trading

    October 12, 2009 06:30 AM

    The press continues to try to shine a light on high-frequency trading. This morning, The Wall Street Journal reports on one tactic called "naked" access, which it says allows traders to trade anonymously through brokerage firms' accounts. Yesterday, <a... Continue reading

20. The Audit

    Bloomberg Good on Stock Research

    October 9, 2009 09:35 AM

    Bloomberg has a solid look this morning at stock-research and the conflicts that still pervade the Wall Street research business seven years after Eliot Spitzer's campaign to clean that corrupt area up. The big problem with Wall Street analysts,... Continue reading

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