The Audit

Audit Notes: TBTF, Billionaire’s Free Pass(ing), Poverty Profiteers in Paris

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 10, 2010 at 06:01 PM

The Journal's David Wessel looks at the divide over what to do about too big to fail. Even mainstream economists... More

Goldman Seizes Some of the Spotlight Back from BP

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 10, 2010 at 12:04 PM

Goldman Sachs must have been enjoying its month-long respite from Most Despised Capitalist status. That crown rests quite easily on... More

Audit Notes: A WSJ Winner, BPA in Canned Goods, AIG

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 9, 2010 at 05:52 PM

Wouldn't it be ironic if Rupert Murdoch and Robert Thomson watered down the Journal's print Pulitzer-winning prowess but got the... More

An NYT Win on a Countrywide Mortgage Scam

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 9, 2010 at 04:35 PM

The Federal Trade Commission slapped a $108 million fine on Countrywide/Bank of America earlier this week. Tough investigative business journalism... More

Deficit Dominant

By Holly Yeager   Jun 9, 2010 at 03:05 PM

In its story on the Obama administration’s apparent inability to take strong steps to spur the economy and create jobs,... More

NYT’s DealBook, Stenographer to Private Equity

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 9, 2010 at 10:10 AM

The private-equity industry is issuing a "dire warning" about the consequences of raising its taxes, the NYT's DealBook reports. In... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg Blues, Fool’s Gold, TBTF Primer

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 8, 2010 at 07:53 PM

I think this Bloomberg story is important. But I'm not exactly sure, because it's almost unreadable. Here's one reason it... More

Audit D.C. Notes: The Disappearing Watchdog, Dinner—and Dollars—with a Staffer, Tax Help Needed

By Holly Yeager   Jun 8, 2010 at 02:11 PM

Our comrades-in-criticism at the American Journalism Review are out with an important piece about the alarming decline of watchdog reporting... More

ProPublica and WaPo on the Rotten Culture at BP

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 8, 2010 at 12:29 PM

ProPublica and the Washington Post team up for an investigation today on BP's history of flaunting environmental safety regulations. Particularly... More

Audit Notes: Links, Readability, Distractions, Wired

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 7, 2010 at 06:08 PM

Jason Fry weighs in on the Nicholas Carr links-as-distractions discussion, with a thoughtful post breaking down the issue. Fry says... More

Politico Sees Public Unions Under Fire

But adds to the problem it describes

By Holly Yeager   Jun 7, 2010 at 05:11 PM

Politico picks a good moment to write about the way public employee unions have landed in the crosshairs, as politicians... More

HHS Gets Tough With Execs. What About the SEC?

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 7, 2010 at 12:19 PM

The Department of Health and Human Services is getting aggressive at rooting out fraud in Big Pharma, Fortune reports. From... More

Audit Notes: Around and a Roundup, Fed Capture, Newsday Cashflow

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 4, 2010 at 06:11 PM

The Journal has a good, creepy story on how the chemical companies are planning to take advantage of blowback from... More

USAT vs. the Job-Training Myth

By Holly Yeager   Jun 4, 2010 at 12:41 PM

USA Today does good work on the unemployment beat, looking at the promise of job training—and the disappointment that often... More

WSJ Finds Some Traders Getting a Sneak Peek at Prices

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 4, 2010 at 12:30 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a new angle on high-frequency trading today, reporting that some trading firms pay exchanges for... More