The Audit

WSJ Now Resembling Small-Town Weekly

Future fountains make a splash at Journal’s new New York section

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 30, 2010 at 12:45 PM

The Wall Street Journal launched its New York City section this week amidst a slew of newspaper-war headlines as Rupert... More

Audit Notes: Goldman’s Junk Heap, Settlement?, Reuters’ Junk Heap

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 29, 2010 at 08:34 PM

The New York Times DealBook blog had an excellent post yesterday on "The Goldman E-mails, or How to Sell Junk."... More

Raise Your Right Hand, Boss

Wall Street’s testimony, like so many of its products, doesn’t add up.

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 29, 2010 at 06:50 PM

Bloomberg gets a bigtime scoop from a former Lehman in-house lawyer who says Dick Fuld lied to Congress about how... More

NYT vs. WSJ on Goldman’s Lobbying Clout

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 29, 2010 at 09:47 AM

Is Goldman Sachs still feared and courted in the halls of power or is it "spurned"? We get two opposite... More

Audit Notes: Martin Wolf, Radical; Tom Frank and SEC Porn; Apple At It Again on Cartoons

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 28, 2010 at 07:54 PM

When somebody like Martin Wolf is forced to become the radical, you know we've got problems. His always must-read FT... More

The Goldman Hearing Coverage

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 28, 2010 at 06:24 PM

Much of the insta-commentary on the congressional hearings yesterday suggested that they were pretty much a wash for Goldman Sachs... More

Bloomberg Scoop Has Implications for Geithner, Ex-Goldman Chair

SIGTARP Barofsky says investigation into Fed coverup of AIG bailout could result in charges

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 28, 2010 at 02:46 PM

Yow! Bloomberg Markets breaks some major news today in a magazine profile of TARP Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky, who... More

Headline of the Year (So Far)

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 28, 2010 at 08:53 AM

Sometimes you just have to step back and admire the New York Post. Today is one of those days. Its... More

Audit Notes: WSJ Missed, WSJ Hit, SEC Porn

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 27, 2010 at 08:55 PM

Hedge-fund biggie David Einhorn ripped into The Wall Street Journal for that weird "Hedge Funds Pound Euro" story it... More

Greywolf, Timberwolf, Blackwolf?

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 27, 2010 at 06:52 PM

Matthew Goldstein of Reuters has been sniffing around Goldman Sach's Greywolf and Timberwolf transactions since last August. Timberwolf is the... More

Skimming the Surface

Will the financial reform bill lead to more bailouts? You won’t find out in today’s NYT story

By Greg Marx   Apr 27, 2010 at 04:37 PM

The front page of today’s New York Times features an article on the state of play on financial reform that... More

But Why Didn’t Regulators Regulate?

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 27, 2010 at 02:03 PM

Bethany McLean mostly misses with her column in The New York Times on who's really to blame in the sordid... More

Def Com: It’s Alive

Early Coverage of Deficit Commission, from Gloomy to Doomed

By Holly Yeager   Apr 27, 2010 at 12:06 PM

The deficit commission created by President Obama holds its first meeting today, and a couple of preview pieces stand out... More

Audit Notes: WSJ Blotter, Deutsche CDOs, Wall Street Praised for Its Self Control

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 26, 2010 at 08:47 PM

The Wall Street Journal's much-anticipated New York section arrived today, but your humble Seattle Audit bureau didn't get it in... More

Apple’s Aggression Against the Press (Yep, Gizmodo Counts)

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 26, 2010 at 06:30 PM

Gawker Media's Gizmodo got hold of a lost iPhone prototype last week after paying the person who found it $5,000.... More