Audit Notes: Decline and Fall, Inflation Falls Again, Stress Indicators

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 5, 2011 at 08:18 PM

Your Decline and Fall Moment of the Day comes from Standard & Poor's, the credit-ratings firm that was a core... More

Audit Notes: Farmland Booms, Regulation and Jobs, Euro Sell-off

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 15, 2011 at 07:24 PM

The Wall Street Journal reports that farming is making something of a comeback on the edges of metro areas amid... More

Audit Notes: Net Exposure, Crain’s Chicago Probe, Angelo’s Tumblr

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 17, 2011 at 07:50 PM

Gillian Tett of the Financial Times shows why banks hedging their European exposure with credit-default swaps aren't necessarily actually hedged.... More

Audit Notes: Nobody’s Guilty In SEC Deals, Swipe Fees, Euromess

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 9, 2011 at 03:09 PM

The New York Times makes a good catch on the disparities in a Justice Department settlement with Wachovia and an... More

Audit Notes: Picturing the Turmoil, WSJ vs. SmartMoney, Long Crisis

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 11, 2011 at 06:40 PM

Lots of people are linking the Brokers With Hands On Their Faces Blog in the midst of the market turmoil... More

Audit Notes: The Euro Crisis’s 1930s Parallels, Taibbi on Bloomberg

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 10, 2011 at 01:24 AM

The eurozone crisis is now at its worst point with Italy's interest rates at unsustainable rates and quite possibly past... More

Audit Notes: The Sovereign Risk Genie, Regulatory Complexity, Wal-Mart and Bank Fees

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 11, 2011 at 07:22 PM

The Economist's Greg Ip says the European crisis, at its core, is not about Silvio Berlusconi or even Italian debt... More

Bloomberg on How a European AIG Would Hit the U.S.

Big U.S. banks are upping their exposure to Europe by selling credit-default swaps

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 2, 2011 at 06:57 PM

Bloomberg News has an important report on how sovereign defaults in Europe could infect the U.S. banking system via ye... More

Debt-Ceiling Jitters Hit the Markets

European crisis and other bad news doesn’t help

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 29, 2011 at 03:36 PM

I'm beginning to get that spring/summer 2008 feeling again, and it's no wonder. The latest GDP report this morning signals... More

Feces, Fascists, and Michael Lewis

A flop from the best writer in financial journalism

By Felix Salmon   Aug 15, 2011 at 10:55 AM

Kevin Drum doesn’t think much of Michael Lewis’s latest European dispatch for Vanity Fair — and neither do I. There’s... More

The Press Notes the Euro Crisis Threatens the U.S. Too

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 16, 2011 at 05:47 PM

It's beginning to dawn on the U.S. press that the slow-motion crash of the European Union just might have some... More