Follow the Money Leads On the Iowa AG

While the press follows on a campaign-cash story

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 22, 2011 at 12:05 PM

The National Institute on Money in State Politics's Follow The Money site reports on how campaign donations from the financial... More

LAT Watchdogs Wall Street on the GM IPO

The banks just can’t help themselves, and if shares soar, political problems await.

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 16, 2010 at 01:03 PM

The L.A. Times takes a smart tack on the General Motors IPO story, reporting that it shows how Wall Street... More

WSJ on Harry Markopolos’ Whistleblowing Shell Companies

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 3, 2011 at 12:04 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting scoop this morning on a lawsuit accusing banks of gouging pensioners and... More

WSJ: Federal Regulator Bares Fangs At Wall Street

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 23, 2011 at 06:11 AM

The Wall Street Journal has a reports this morning that federal regulators are playing smashmouth with Wall Street over their... More

A Damning NYT Investigation Into Justice Wall Street Style

Bankers skate as regulators and prosecutors protect financial interests above all else

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 14, 2011 at 01:44 PM

The New York Times has the story of the week, a superb investigation into why there haven't been prosecutions on... More

A Good WSJ Scoop on AIG and Wall Street Research

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 26, 2011 at 06:51 PM

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting scoop out today, reporting that AIG CEO Robert Benmosche is leaning on his... More

A HuffPost Scoop, Overlooked By the Mainstream Press

HUD finds big banks defrauded taxpayers, but few follow the story

By Ryan Chittum   May 19, 2011 at 07:43 PM

Shahien Nasiripour scored a foreclosure-fraud scandal scoop for The Huffington Post on Monday, reporting that audits of the mortgage industry... More

Andrew Ross Sorkin: Fraud Triggered the Financial Crisis

A more important statement than you might think from the NYT’s Wall Street guy

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 8, 2010 at 09:19 AM

There was a tough column in The New York Times yesterday on how the feds' are going after the minnows... 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: Catching Up With Wall Street, Princess Dresses, Olbermann and Objectivity

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 17, 2010 at 06:21 PM

The New York Observer's Max Abelson takes a look at the Wall Street people who nearly crashed the world. Where... More

Audit Notes: Free Trade “Hit,” Taxing Wall Street, Bruce Karatz v. Tron Carter

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 12, 2010 at 03:29 PM

One thing the financial press doesn't much pretend to be neutral about is "free trade." They love that stuff. See... More

Audit Notes: HuffPo Shines, Libor Lineup, An FT Slip

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2011 at 12:54 AM

I don't know about you, but the best news story I read today on the Levin-Coburn Report wasn't in the... More

Audit Notes: Inequality in NYC, Reuters on Dumb Money, Ireland

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 17, 2010 at 06:05 PM

Yves Smith, in a "Banana Republic Watch," points to a report (PDF) from the Fiscal Policy Institute that finds inequality... More

Audit Notes: Investigators Eye the Wall Street Mortgage Machine

By Ryan Chittum   May 23, 2011 at 08:19 PM

After years of going nowhere, the investigation of the Wall Street securitization machine behind the financial crisis is finally showing... More

Audit Notes: It’s Wall Street’s Deficit, Dimon Steps In It, Red-Faced Mortgage Bankers

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 3, 2011 at 07:45 PM

Simon Johnson looks at the "Ruinous Fiscal Impact of Big Banks" over at The New York Times's Economix blog: First,... More

Audit Notes: Palin Holds Forth on QE2, Top 400 Taxes, Too Big to Jail

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 8, 2010 at 05:25 PM

If you, like me, had been eagerly awaiting Sarah Palin's thoughts on Quantitative Easing: Part Deux, the wait is over!... More

Audit Notes: Poor Wall Street, Our Lost Decade, Parallel Universe

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 8, 2011 at 07:46 PM

Reading this Wall Street Journal story, you'd think that Wall Street had fallen on hard times: Morgan Stanley offered a... More

Audit Notes: Pulitzer Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 18, 2011 at 08:30 PM

The financial crisis is now more than three years old, but up to now there had been no Pulitzer Prize... More

Audit Notes: Saudis Blame Wall Street, Made in the U.S., Victims’ Big Haircut

By Ryan Chittum   May 27, 2011 at 08:07 PM

This is very interesting: Kevin G. Hall of McClatchy reports on some Wikileaks cables that show the Saudis telling the... More