Audit Notes: Boyd on Blackboard, Capitalism Lite, BofA Woes

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 30, 2011 at 07:53 PM

There aren't a whole lot of investigative journalists out there covering penny stocks and other small-cap companies. Roddy Boyd does,... More

Audit Notes: Google v. Groupon, BofA Deal, The 99ers

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 4, 2011 at 11:31 PM

The Wall Street Journal's Shira Ovide writes that Google, spurned by Groupon despite its stunning $6 billion offer for the... More

Audit Notes: ProPub vs. BofA, Wall Street in the White House, Short-Armed

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 16, 2010 at 08:02 PM

I love to see the press just flat-out say somebody's full of it. ProPublica's Karen Weise does that today, calling... 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

Bank of America’s Sweet Deal on Fannie and Freddie

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 4, 2011 at 01:24 PM

The Washington Post got the best quote on the Bank of America settlement with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and... More

Bloomberg Eyes Bank of America’s Derivatives Move

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 19, 2011 at 12:46 PM

Bloomberg News reports that Bank of America (with Federal Reserve approval) put Merrill Lynch credit-default swaps into BofA's deposit-holding arm... More

Market Mess

Troubles pile up for the financial system and the economy

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 8, 2011 at 08:18 PM

What happened in the markets today? Good luck figuring that out (you can't, really). Let's just say it's some combination... More

One For the Whistleblowers

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 22, 2011 at 05:38 PM

The government has thrown up its hands and says it can't prosecute Angelo Mozilo, despite the fact that his company... More

The HBGary Federal Scandal

Many questions need answering as hackers shine a light on the private-security underworld

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 14, 2011 at 03:15 PM

I asked the press on Friday to quickly get on the disturbing story of HBGary Federal et al on Friday.... More

What Do I Owe You?

Don’t ask Bank of America

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 3, 2012 at 07:18 PM

When a bank sells bad debts to third-party collectors, the first order of business would seem to be to tell... More