The Audit

Politico’s Interesting Take on Down-and-Sort-of-Out Rubin

By Holly Yeager   Apr 8, 2010 at 03:26 PM

Politico takes a look today at Robert Rubin, declaring him “decidedly out of favor in the nation’s capital.” There’s no... More

Fortune FAIL: One-Source Story on Credit-Card Reform

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 8, 2010 at 02:31 PM

Ah, the one-source story. Nasty habit of Bloomberg and the Financial Times—and now Fortune. The magazine interviews Wall Street analyst... More

Audit Notes: Waxman Whacks Wolff, Salon Whacks Wolff, Brooks Just Wack

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 7, 2010 at 08:43 PM

Finally, somebody gets up the nerve to slap a cease-and-desist on Michael Wolff's parasitic Newser. Sharon Waxman and he have... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Newsweek Lets Simpson Speak for Himself; American Banker Connects Politics and Policy, The Hill on the Obvious, Etc.

By Holly Yeager   Apr 7, 2010 at 04:07 PM

The bipartisan commission on the national debt established by President Obama is set to start working in a few weeks,... More

Jamie Dimon and JP Morgan on the Dole

How the bank puts politicians and taxpayers over a barrel

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 7, 2010 at 01:05 PM

The Wall Street Journal's front-page story on Jamie Dimon's efforts to prevent regulatory reform sent me off on a tangent... More

Audit D.C. Notes: National Journal Uncovers Who Makes What on K Street; WaPo on What We Think About Homeownership, NYT on What to Expect, Etc.

By Holly Yeager   Apr 6, 2010 at 04:02 PM

What do they make? It’s what everyone wants to know, especially when it comes to the small world of K... More

Grove’s Death Knell for White House Press Corps Skips a Beat

By Holly Yeager   Apr 6, 2010 at 11:49 AM

The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove tries to declare the death of the White House press corps. And he makes a... More

Compensation Complaints

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 6, 2010 at 10:28 AM

The Wall Street Journal reports that Wall Street pay hit a record (asterisk attached) last year at $140 billion. That's... More

Backwards Steps by the WSJ and NYT on iPad

The papers cripple everyday Web features in their apps for a walled-in environment

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 5, 2010 at 04:11 PM

I compared the design and content of the Times and Wall Street Journal on the iPad earlier. Now let's take... More

IPad Review: New York Times vs. Wall Street Journal

In a promising start, the Times looks a lot better, but the Journal is full-featured

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 5, 2010 at 01:55 PM

First of all, let me say that the iPad is indeed a Big Deal. All those journalism-future discussions you've had... More

Getting Foxy on Currencies

By Holly Yeager   Apr 5, 2010 at 01:39 PM

The Treasury Department’s announcement that it’s delaying a much-anticipated decision on whether China manipulates its currency got lots of coverage—and... More

WSJ Looks Past the Census Noise

By Holly Yeager   Apr 5, 2010 at 11:44 AM

The Wall Street Journal finds an interesting angle on the census, looking beyond the rhetoric of conservative activists who’ve been... More

Audit Notes: Fed Foe of Big Banks, Executive Pay, Credit Tricks

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 2, 2010 at 07:31 PM

The Huffington Post's Shahien Nasiripour interviews Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig, a fierce opponent of too big to fail,... More

Krugman’s Too Big to Fail Straw Man

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 2, 2010 at 05:34 PM

Paul Krugman has a poorly argued column today setting up straw men to argue his case for regulation. This is... More

SEC and You Shall Not Find

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 2, 2010 at 02:43 PM

What is the SEC good for? That's what Bloomberg's Jon Weil asks. Good question. Why did it take a court-appointed... More