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1. The Audit

   Nocera Blasts Obama’s Regulation Reform

   June 18, 2009 09:56 AM

   Joe Nocera of The New York Times has the must-read of the day on Obama's regulation-reform plan. Let's just say he isn't impressed. And really, why should he be? As Nocera says, Obama ain't exactly pulling an FDR here:... Continue reading

2. The Audit

   Stock Market Math for Journalists

   June 17, 2009 04:04 PM

   Too many people are impressed by the recent surge in stock prices. Believe it or not, journalists are people, too! And it's well-known that most of us aren't exactly mathematicians (consider that a CYA disclosure in case I got a... Continue reading

3. The Audit

   Martin Wolf Speak, You Listen

   June 17, 2009 03:48 PM

   Martin Wolf's weekly column alone is worth paying for a Financial Times subscription. Or if you visit FT.com just for that you can get them all for free (the site gives you ten stories a month gratis). His effort... Continue reading

4. Critical Eye

   Where Credit Is Due

   June 17, 2009 12:12 PM

   Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe By Gillian Tett | Free Press | $26, 304 pages I can't imagine... Continue reading

5. The Audit

   Rational on Rationing

   June 17, 2009 09:24 AM

   David Leonhardt has an important column in The New York Times this morning looking at how the "rationing" buzzword is misused as a health care buzzword. This is clear-eyed, calm reasoning—a gentle but firm rejoinder to the spin from... Continue reading

6. The Audit

   The Economist on Banks’ Revisionist History

   June 16, 2009 06:45 PM

   Applaud The Economist for a good dose of common sense, reminding bankers just how foolish they were and how close they brought all the rest of us to the "abyss," as President Obama called it today. This piece... Continue reading

7. The Audit

   The WSJ Questions Obama’s Securitization Fix

   June 16, 2009 09:55 AM

   The Wall Street Journal this morning zeroes in on a critical aspect of the Obama administration's regulation proposals: What to do about securitization. The paper hits the proposal pretty hard, saying it's just a mix of existing plans. None... Continue reading

8. The Audit

   BusinessWeek Calls Out Obama on Reform

   June 15, 2009 02:15 PM

   The most disturbing business news of recent weeks has been the resurgent confidence of the banking lobby, which is scrapping to stop vital reforms from changing the way it does business. There's also growing worry that Obama is letting this... Continue reading

9. The Audit

   Times Keeps an Eye on the Workplace

   June 15, 2009 10:48 AM

   The New York Times this morning looks at what's turned out to be the surprising work phenomenon of this recession—the furlough, where companies force their employees to take unpaid leave. The upside is that, presumably, companies have to fire... Continue reading

10. The Audit

    Audit Handoff

    June 4, 2009 03:59 PM

    Folks, I'll be on vacation until the 15th, but The Audit will go on in the meantime. Audit Manager Dean Starkman will pinch hit as Audit blogger for the next couple of weeks. Enjoy. Continue reading

11. The Audit

    Journal Drumbeat Continues on Wall Street Lobbying

    June 4, 2009 02:01 PM

    The Journal continues to shine a bright light on the efforts by Wall Street to go back to the way things were before the crisis. Today's story is part of a drumbeat of pieces, including one on page... Continue reading

12. The Audit

    Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Succeed, Too Few to Compete

    June 4, 2009 11:23 AM

    Barry Ritholtz of The Big Picture takes on a relative of the "too big to fail" mess: what he calls "too big to succeed." The banking sector has consolidated at the top over the last few decades—we all know... Continue reading

13. The Audit

    WSJ Continues to Hype Congressional Expenses Non-Story

    June 4, 2009 08:59 AM

    I've been somewhat baffled by the Journal's repeated page-one stories on congressional expenses. So far they've turned up just about nothing, but the paper has hyped them like they've turned up huge scoops about to bring the... Continue reading

14. The Audit

    More on the Journal’s Banking-Lobby Story

    June 3, 2009 05:50 PM

    Andrew Leonard of Salon makes a nice catch on the Journal's bank-lobbying story this morning, one I read right by—perhaps because the Journal buried it in the fourth-to-last paragraph. Here's what Leonard says about the piece: Journal reporters Susan... Continue reading

15. The Audit

    The Times Finds Countrywide (BofA) Up to Its Old Tricks

    June 3, 2009 02:36 PM

    The New York Times's page one today is loaded with business stories. My favorite is Peter S. Goodman's excellent one on a homeowner falling through the cracks of the government's less-than-overwhelming mortgage-rescue program. Goodman focuses on an Arizona woman... Continue reading

16. The Audit

    More on Why Kindle Doesn’t Work for Newspapers

    June 3, 2009 12:51 PM

    It's good to see Jeff Bercovici land on his feet after Portfolio's demise. At Daily Finance, he quotes News Corp. chief digital officer Jonathan Miller on canceling his WSJ Online subscription: I went from paying $14 to The Wall... Continue reading

17. The Audit

    The Journal Continues to Focus on the Banking Lobby

    June 3, 2009 09:31 AM

    I've been impressed recently by the business press's—particularly The Wall Street Journal's—reporting on the aggressive lobbying by the financial industry to impose its will, even as it costs taxpayers trillions in dollars. The Journal keeps it up... Continue reading

18. The Audit

    WSJ: Citi Severs Huge Severance Packages

    June 2, 2009 09:29 AM

    There's been a common-sense sighting on Wall Street. The Journal scoops that Citigroup is refusing to pay tens of millions of dollars it owes to five executives who have left the company in recent months. Citigroup already has doled... Continue reading

19. The Audit

    WaPo Circles Back on Cox’s SEC

    June 1, 2009 03:19 PM

    I criticized the press last month for burying a blistering General Accountability Office report on the incompetence of Christopher Cox's SEC—a report covered best by my friend Moe Tkacik over at Talking Points Memo. So I'd like to... Continue reading

20. The Audit

    It’s the Times’s Turn on the Wall Street Rear Guard

    June 1, 2009 09:31 AM

    The Journal did some three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust work last week on Wall Street's retrograde lobbying efforts—particularly to keep credit-default swaps from being heavily regulated. The New York Times today takes the handoff and advances deep into the red zone. Forcing... Continue reading

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