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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 eyes CMBS, newspaper optimism, Weil on bank books
Signs of froth return to commercial real estate lending
By Ryan Chittum Sep 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg News is good to keep an eye on the securitization market for early signs of froth. It reports that... 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: Luskin and Krugman, Bailouts, Minimum Wage,
By Ryan Chittum Apr 20, 2012 at 02:18 AM
Brad DeLong catches Donald Luskin in a doozy. Luskin calls out Paul Krugman for saying in 2000 that the Dow... More
Audit Notes: NFL Hell, No Inflation Here, Fraud Without Fraudsters
By Ryan Chittum Feb 10, 2011 at 08:56 PM
Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post has the column of the week, a righteous piece of outrage at the NFL... More
Audit Notes: Slick Politics, Greece’s Red Flag, What Caused Oil’s Tumble?
By Ryan Chittum May 12, 2011 at 08:35 PM
I noted a Huffington Post story the other day reporting that removing drilling bans wouldn't really affect the price of... More
Audit Notes: Weil embarrasses DOJ, Business Insider, revolving door
By Ryan Chittum Mar 14, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil makes an amazing catch on the latest Ernst & Young wrist slap from the Justice Department, this... More
Bloomberg’s Weil Exposes Another Accounting Regulator Coverup
By Ryan Chittum Jun 10, 2011 at 07:08 PM
Jonathan Weil has a tough Bloomberg View column about accounting regulators covering up wrongdoing by companies and their auditors. Back... More
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission FAIL
Mostly lackluster coverage of a lackluster report
By Ryan Chittum Jan 28, 2011 at 01:35 PM
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released its report yesterday and the press play indicates that it's either an utter failure... More
Official Secrets of the Financial Crisis
Huge public money changing hands in deals that remain undisclosed; part of a widening shroud over government
By Dean Starkman Jun 4, 2013 at 07:05 AM
Jon Weil's column the other day was one you really did not want to miss and points to wider... More
The Facebook blame game
The NYT’s Sorkin shifts focus from the bankers
By Ryan Chittum Sep 8, 2012 at 02:38 AM
Like Jon Weil, I've got little sympathy for the folks who speculated on Facebook at $38, thinking it would double... More
The Obama Administration’s Financial-Fraud Stunt Backfires
The press shows the feds’ numbers are phony and asks where the whales are.
By Ryan Chittum Dec 9, 2010 at 10:20 AM
Boy, the Obama administration's slapdash PR effort to show it's cracking down on financial fraud sure looks to be failing—and... More
The SEC’s Soft Touch For Repeat Offenders
NYT and Bloomberg show how often banks violate promises not to re-commit fraud
By Ryan Chittum Nov 8, 2011 at 03:14 PM
Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil wrote a swell column last week on the SEC's latest Citigroup wrist-slap. Weil noted that one of... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
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