60 Minutes With a Good Look at the Foreclosure Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 5, 2011 at 07:45 PM

Hats off to 60 Minutes and Scott Pelley for taking a nice look at the foreclosure scandal on Sunday. Pelley... More

Audit Notes: Economic Headwinds, Refinancing, Google’s Dominance

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 19, 2011 at 07:25 PM

Crain's New York Business's Aaron Elstein takes a good look anecdotes at the headwinds New York's economy is facing from... 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: Investigators Eye the Wall Street Mortgage Machine

By Ryan Chittum   May 23, 2011 at 08:19 PM

After years of going nowhere, the investigation of the Wall Street securitization machine behind the financial crisis is finally showing... More

Audit Notes: Mortgage Bonds, Junkets, Digital Hype

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 26, 2012 at 08:54 PM

Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism flags what she calls a "bombshell" analyst report on the mortgage-backed securities market. The report... More

Audit Notes: Mortgage Industry Conflicts of Interest Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 25, 2011 at 05:11 PM

American Banker has a smart story on "How Not to Make a Mortgage Servicing Settlement," taking a look at the... More

Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Lobbyists, Reuters on Chesapeake, Shadow Space (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   May 1, 2012 at 01:40 AM

Top News Corporation officials talked about enlisting the top Wall Street Journal Europe editor to lobby politicians for Murdoch's multibillionaire... More

Audit Notes: TP Bubble, No More “Fat Cats,” Big Long Now

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 16, 2012 at 12:52 AM

The Wall Street Journal takes a look at one growing American industry the Internet and the Chinese can't wipe out:... More

Audit Notes: Walmart Rewrite, AMR’s Strategic Default, Debtors’ Prison

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 16, 2011 at 06:20 PM

When The Huffington Post's Lila Pearl Shapiro wrote a critical story about Walmart's labor practices earlier this week, the company... More

Bank of America’s Big Countrywide Settlement

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 29, 2011 at 03:03 AM

Bank of America is going to fork over $8.5 billion to mortgage-bond investors lied to by Countrywide Financial, the Wall... More

Bank of America’s Disastrous Countrywide Deal

The “dumb” money squandered tens of billions of dollars on Angelo Mozilo’s predatory lender

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 30, 2011 at 10:32 AM

In The Big Short, hedge fund investor Steve Eisman recalled the time he heard Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis... More

Excellent Reporting on the Revolving Door By American Banker

Paper’s FOIA request shows a former FHA commish palling around with his future employer

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 4, 2011 at 01:46 PM

American Banker has a terrific story on the revolving door, digging into the records of former Federal Housing Authority commissioner... More

Hudson On the Systemic Corruption of the Mortgage Business

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 22, 2011 at 02:03 PM

The Center for Public Integrity Michael Hudson has another excellent installment of his investigation into the culture of fraud at... More

ProPublica Catches Ally Financial Making It Up

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 27, 2011 at 08:33 PM

ProPublica has a terrific report today nailing Ally Financial (the former GMAC) for faking mortgage documents in order to foreclose... More

The Free Press Probes Fannie and Freddie

The giant bailout recipients are dumping inventory in Detroit and pushing foreclosures over modifications

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 15, 2011 at 05:55 PM

A Detroit Free Press investigation raises some interesting questions about why government-owned Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are pushing foreclosures... More

The Foreclosure Scandal Continues (UPDATED)

American Banker and Reuters show banks thumbing their nose at the law

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 1, 2011 at 01:41 PM

It's clear that the banks aren't much chastened by the foreclosure scandal that erupted last fall and which threatens to... More