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1. November 9, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: low-info billionaires, Trump the taker, Elizabeth Warren

   Money apparently can't buy a firm grip on reality

   By Ryan Chittum

   One of the things this election proved conclusively is that even billionaires can be low-information voters. Here's Bloomberg BusinessWeek on billionaire David Siegel, the guy who's building the a 90,000 square foot house and who all but told his workers to vote for Romney if they wanted to keep their jobs (emphasis mine): I think it’s going to be a...

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2. January 13, 2011 11:53 AM

   Audit Notes: Mortgage Servicers, Ghost Mall—China Style; The Joneses

   By Ryan Chittum

   Andy Kroll of Mother Jones takes a look (UPDATE: took a look, I should say. This story is from a year ago. As Paul Kiel points out, it's "sadly still entirely relevant") at the little-regulated mortgage servicers. There's an anecdote about a woman who had her house sold—with no notice. Walters' discovery that her home had been sold out from...

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3. March 23, 2012 07:35 PM

   Audit Notes: N.J., Paragon of Clean Government; Algae Fuel, Fees, The Rich (UPDATED)

   By Ryan Chittum

   Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil just guts a Center for Public Integrity report card on state corruption. It found that New Jersey was the least corrupt state in the country—a result that should have flagged to CPI that something had gone awry with their survey. That flagged it for Weil, at least, who looked into the methodology CPI employed: For example, O’Dea...

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