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The $1 BusinessWeek Story
July 21, 2009 03:32 PMWe haven't weighed in on BusinessWeek since news emerged that McGraw-Hill is seeking to unload the magazine. But I read this Time story this morning that I thought illustrated a number of problems with the press coverage of this... Continue reading
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NYT: Where’s Obama’s Manufacturing Plan?
July 21, 2009 08:48 AMThe New York Times is good this morning to point out that the Obama administration doesn't have a plan for a critical apart of the economy: manufacturing. Of course, manufacturing industry has been gutted in this country over the... Continue reading
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Getting the New Journal (Mostly) Right
July 20, 2009 03:43 PMMark Potts has a good post at his Recovering Journalist site on The Wall Street Journal under Murdoch. Which is nice, especially since he's coming off a post that wrongly argues that newspapers don't "provide value" and thus... Continue reading
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The WSJ Spotlights Working Class Woes
July 20, 2009 09:55 AMThe Wall Street Journal puts the woes of the working class front and center (on page one) today, using the devastating crash in Las Vegas to tell the story. In illustrating how one of the few bright spots for... Continue reading
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The Deal’s Audit Gotcha
July 18, 2009 05:19 PMAnyone who's read half an Audit post would find it laughable to think that we bow down to Wall Street. But Yvette Kantrow, executive editor of a trade magazine called The Deal, isn't laughing. She's written an innuendo-laden piece... Continue reading
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The Daily Show Gets Jim Cramer Again (and Bernie Goldberg)
July 17, 2009 01:13 PMIf you haven't seen Jon Stewart's evisceration of former-baseball-star-turned-investment-guru-turned-bankrupt Lenny Dykstra, as well as some of his fawning admirers in the press, take a few minutes to watch a classic. Continue reading
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Ugly Numbers on Toxic-Asset Prices Signal More Trouble
July 16, 2009 04:26 PMI've long called for more reporting on a critical question in the financial crisis: how much the toxic assets clogging up banks' balance sheets are actually worth—and have been mostly disappointed in how little there's been. Now to... Continue reading
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NYT’s Ben Stein Hawks Misleading Credit Score Site
July 16, 2009 01:47 PMFelix Salmon is right: What's a New York Times business columnist doing in an ad for a company that uses misleading tactics to lure customers into a "free" service that actually costs money? More to the point: What's a... Continue reading
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Fortune Looks at Automated Trading After a Code Theft
July 16, 2009 09:51 AMIt's been a week and a half since news broke of the computer-code theft at Goldman Sachs threw the automated-trading business out of its preferred shadows. Fortune's William D. Cohan is one of the first reporters I've seen with... Continue reading
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Goldman Sachs to the Forefront
July 15, 2009 07:12 PMThe Goldman Sachs story is just getting bigger, and I get the sense it may be AIG time for Goldie. I don't mean AIG in the sense of a stupid company gobbling up all the risk on Wall Street for... Continue reading
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Bloomberg Gets a Scoop on a Too Big to Fail Tax
July 15, 2009 04:07 PMBloomberg reports today that the Obama administration—or at least parts of it—are planning to levy fees on giant financial institutions to encourage them to slim down. It interviewed Sheila Bair, the FDIC chairwoman, who gave it some big news... Continue reading
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The Times on the Real Unemployment Crisis
July 15, 2009 09:44 AMThe New York Times David Leonhardt this morning shines a spotlight on the real conditions in the labor markets—ones that are obscured by the traditional unemployment rate, a measure that doesn't come close to capturing the true... Continue reading
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Audit Interview: James L. Bothwell
July 14, 2009 12:54 PMA few months back, The Audit's Elinore Longobardi took a a long look at how the press failed in its coverage of a 1994 report on derivatives regulation from the Government Accountability Office, the nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress.... Continue reading
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Time Gets the Stimulus Wrong
July 14, 2009 11:59 AMI wrote yesterday that The Wall Street Journal had been too accommodating of White House spin on stimulus spending. Today, Time goes too far the other way. The magazine reports in its headline: "Obama's Stimulus Plan: Failing By... Continue reading
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Obama Spins New Stimulus Spending Line into the WSJ
July 13, 2009 01:53 PMThe Journal this morning regurgitates some abject spin from the White House on the economy. It's clearly part of a PR offensive by the Obama administration to regain some ground after recent criticisms that his ginormous stimulus plan isn't... Continue reading
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Journal: Option ARMs Doing Worse than Subprime
July 13, 2009 09:35 AMThe Journal has an interesting little news story this morning on option adjustable-rate mortgages, reporting that these time bombs now have worse foreclosure and delinquency rates than subprime mortgages. The Audit has been on the lookout for... Continue reading
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Bloomberg’s Weil Asks the Right Questions on Goldman
July 10, 2009 04:50 PMJonathan Weil zeroes in on the incredible statement by the prosecutor in the Goldman Sachs code-theft case that if Goldman's program falls in the wrong hands it could allow them to "manipulate markets in unfair ways." I pointed this... Continue reading
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Slate Takes on the Prosperity Gospel Peddlers
July 10, 2009 02:43 PMSlate is good to take a fresh look, in the second year of the financial crisis, at the "Prosperity Gospel," the movement in evangelical Christianity that preaches that Jesus wants you to be rich—odd since it supposedly comes from... Continue reading
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NYT’s Norris Lets Beazer and Justice Have It
July 10, 2009 09:43 AMFloyd Norris has a tough column this morning on Beazer Homes and the government letting it off the hook for its crimes with what's effectively a slap on the wrist. Here's the excellent lede, which, uh, doesn't exactly beat... Continue reading
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CNBC’s Santelli and the $1,300 YOU Can Get Rich Trading! Seminar
July 9, 2009 03:30 PMI had to do a double-take when I saw CNBC's Rick Santelli on a Web site hawking a $1,300 "how to get rich trading" seminar. Here's the lede of the marketing copy for "LIVN Live Trading Seminar": Dear Trader: I... Continue reading
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