Audit Notes: WSJ on Selling Access, Wall Street-Style; Yanked; Small Paywalls

By Ryan Chittum   May 16, 2011 at 08:25 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a very good page-one story on how Wall Street gives hedge funds access to key... More

Audit Notes: WSJ Scoop, SAC’s Golf Guy, Two Old Guys Flailing

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 19, 2010 at 11:53 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a big scoop out this evening, reporting that the federal government is winding up a... More

Audit Notes: Countrywide, WSJ Stays Ahead on Probe, Blodget

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 22, 2010 at 07:59 PM

All the biz/econobloggers are going gaga over a nugget of information buried deep in Gretchen Morgenson's column yesterday. Consider a... More

Audit Notes: Energy Economy, Insider Trading, Mortgage Settlement

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 9, 2012 at 11:55 PM

Here's a good Wall Street Journal page-one story on how the energy boom is driving economic activity across the U.S.... More

Audit Notes: HBGary Federal, Bank CEOs Stock Sales, Adam Gopnik

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 11, 2011 at 09:42 PM

This is one of the more disturbing stories I've read in a while. So far, no one in the mainstream... More

Audit Notes: Insider Trading on the Hill, Taibbi, Deficit vs. Jobs Coverage

By Ryan Chittum   May 24, 2011 at 08:11 PM

Dan Froomkin of The Huffington Post reports on some very interesting research finding that the investment portfolios of members of... More

Audit Notes: Journalists Subpoenaed, Private Pension Woes, Galleon

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 7, 2011 at 11:53 PM

Matthew Goldstein of Reuters reports that several business journalists are caught up in the crossfire between Fairfax Financial and hedge... More

Bloomberg’s Big Paulson Scoop

The former Treasury secretary told the public one thing while telling select traders another

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 29, 2011 at 07:21 PM

Bloomberg Markets reports that in July 2008 then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson told a meeting of big investors, including several fellow... More

Insider Trading in Congress

A new book puts faces on data suggesting members enrich themselves with nonpublic information

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 14, 2011 at 07:35 PM

If I could short Congress, I would right now. Last night's 60 Minutes report, based on the work of conservative... More

The Journal on Congress’s Inside Dope for Investors

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 22, 2011 at 05:07 PM

The Wall Street Journal continues to investigate the fuzzy intersection between Congress and insider trading, with a good page-one story... More

The Prosaic Mosaic Theory

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 30, 2010 at 12:25 PM

The New York Times is trying to play catchup with The Wall Street Journal, which has dominated the hedge-fund investigation... More