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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: insider trading versus CDO fraud, 401(k)s, lead and crime
Rough treatment for inside-trading suspects contrasts with CDO probes
By Ryan Chittum Jan 16, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The contrast between how aggressively authorities have gone after inside-trading hedge fund impresarios and how softly they've tiptoed around Wall... 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
Audit Notes: Reuters in court, 97-month car loans, the missing 000s
A flurry of legal activity for the wire service
By Ryan Chittum Apr 9, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Reuters has been in the legal news a bit lately, and not in a good way. First, the Journal reported... 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
China hacks the press
While the FBI probed whether it gave some traders an early look at government data
By Ryan Chittum Feb 1, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Yesterday The New York Times ran this remarkable story about how Chinese hackers, presumably aligned with the military, hacked into... 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
STOCK fraud?
Reporters miss a chance to expose Congress’s weak rationale for an ethics rule rollback
By Sasha Chavkin Apr 17, 2013 at 02:50 PM
On Monday, President Obama quietly signed a bill repealing the major provisions of the much-touted ethics law known as the... 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 NYT on the SEC’s hunt for Stevie Cohen
The case weakens as the statute of limitations winds down
By Felix Salmon Feb 7, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Andrew Ross Sorkin and Peter Lattman have uncovered an interesting wrinkle in the SEC's case against Mathew Martoma, the most... More
The press underplays the Geithner leak
A Fed president claims the now-Treasury Secretary gave inside information to Wall Street
By Ryan Chittum Jan 23, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Of all the things we expected to see in the 2007 Federal Reserve meeting transcripts released last week, Tim Geithner... 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
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