200 Years of Citi

An alternate history

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2012 at 02:42 PM

Bloomberg's Christine Harper, on Twitter, notes that Citigroup's corporate timeline, launched in a must-have new iPad app called Citi News,... More

A Bloomberg Investigation Exposes Cisco’s Tax Hypocrisy

CEO pushes for a repatration holiday while working hard to move profits overseas

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 28, 2011 at 02:25 PM

Cisco's billionaire CEO John Chambers has led the recent campaign to let multinationals repatriate their overseas profits to the U.S.... More

A Little Healthy Outrage on Executive Pay

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 6, 2011 at 02:16 PM

Roger Lowenstein had an excellent Bloomberg column a couple of weeks ago on outlandish executive compensation. Unfortunately, it got one... More

Audit Notes: WSJ’s Facebook Non-News, Bogus Bloomberg, Tabloid Id

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 29, 2011 at 11:54 PM

Fortune's Dan Primack calls out The Wall Street Journal for hyping non-news on page one that Facebook is going to... More

Audit Notes: AP Spill, Reporting on Your Parent, Bloomberg Babies

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2011 at 04:21 PM

This Associated Press story had me scratching my head. It says Citgo spilled 265,000 barrels of oil in the Delaware... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg Blues, Weil Audits Goldman’s Board, Does Not Compute

By Ryan Chittum   May 26, 2011 at 07:54 PM

Slate's Jack Shafer shreds Bloomberg View, the new Bloomberg editorial page. He writes, "I'd rather go blind than look at... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg Empire Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 15, 2011 at 06:46 PM

Reuters's Jack Shafer writes that Bloomberg BusinessWeek has become the best magazine in the country, his "primary source of long-form,... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg on the Fed, OCC Meddles for Banks, Who Runs the World

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 31, 2011 at 07:57 PM

Bloomberg News is flooding the zone on the Fed's discount-window document dump, which the central bank had to disclose after... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg’s Euphemisms, ETFs and CDOs, TechCrunch and Goldman

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 15, 2011 at 07:36 PM

It's sort of darkly amusing to read all the euphemisms in this Bloomberg News story reporting on the latest warnings... More

Audit Notes: Carr on Amazon, Muni Broadband, Too Big to Fail

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 16, 2012 at 07:49 PM

David Carr's New York Times column today on Amazon, Apple, and the book publishers is excellent. He calls the Department... More

Audit Notes: CDO Charges, Facebook’s Board, Deficits

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 3, 2012 at 12:29 AM

Sure enough, the Justice Department charged former Credit Suisse CDO executive Kareem Serageldin with fraud for allegedly artificially inflating CDO... More

Audit Notes: CDS Watch, Murdoch’s Email, Fracking and Quaking

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 14, 2011 at 06:16 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a good look at how European banks have been busy writing hundreds of billions of... More

Audit Notes: Citi’s Slaps, College Is Cheap, Voicemail Interception Compensation Scheme

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 4, 2011 at 07:38 PM

Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil has an excellent, tough column on the latest settlement between Citigroup and the SEC, which shows how... More

Audit Notes: Forced Fed, Bank Wages, Schroeder on Buffett

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 1, 2011 at 07:48 PM

The press continues to rifle through the Fed's discount window data dump, finding that Some 70 percent of all loans... More

Audit Notes: Fox on Energy, Journalists and Programmers, Bloomberg

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 7, 2012 at 01:29 AM

Media Matters has an amusing compilation of Fox News reactions to $4 a gallon gasoline in 2008, when George W.... More

Audit Notes: Fox on the Overpaid, Winkler Smiles, FT Ads

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 4, 2011 at 06:33 PM

The Fox News propaganda machine has been ramped up to portray $700 a week teachers and other government employees as... More