The Audit

Audit Notes: Predators on the Block, iPad Pushback, Reuters on Toyota

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 26, 2010 at 07:21 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a nice story about how slow-going it's been slimming down Citigroup. But what struck me... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Newsweek Says Cash Is King; TNR on the Politico Way; Weird FT Art

By Holly Yeager   Mar 26, 2010 at 06:04 PM

Cash is king, and that’s a good thing, declares Newsweek in an assessment of the “drastic debt diet” the U.S.... More

The Dead Go On the Record in The Wall Street Journal

The paper held Apple director’s newsmaking comments until after his death

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 26, 2010 at 05:39 PM

A Wall Street Journal story yesterday on the death of Apple director Jerome York quoted eye-opening remarks York made to... More

What About Private Equity?

The industry is getting off easy while it destroys companies and jobs

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 26, 2010 at 03:00 PM

This from The Wall Street Journal's Overheard on the Street is the stat of the day (okay, it ran yesterday):... More

Justice Says Wall Street Colluded to Gouge Cities and States

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 26, 2010 at 12:44 PM

Bloomberg scoops (and Dow Jones follows without crediting) that the Justice Department says JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and General... More

Audit Notes: Cramer Creamed, Elizabeth Warren, BofA Mods

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 25, 2010 at 08:45 PM

Reason No. 5 billion not to listen to Jim Cramer or other market snake-oil salesmen: Jim Cramer said on CNBC's... More

The Times Goes Big, and Only a Little Scary, on Social Security

By Holly Yeager   Mar 25, 2010 at 03:27 PM

Ten days ago, the AP reported that Social Security “is projected to pay out more in benefits than it collects... More

LA Times Sees an Oncoming Option ARM Wave

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 25, 2010 at 02:42 PM

The Los Angeles Times looks at the possible impending Option-ARM crisis, something we've asked for more coverage of for a... More

Newspaper Ads Tumbled to 1963 Levels Last Year

But iPad ads show an early glimmer of hope

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 25, 2010 at 09:24 AM

The New York Times reports that newspaper advertising tanked by more than 27 percent last year, shedding $10 billion from... More

Audit Notes: Tax Break, Lehman CEO, WSJ Sports

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 24, 2010 at 10:58 PM

The Journal is good to front a story on tax goodies for corporations, noting that JPMorgan Chase is about to... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Kinsley v. Krugman v. Kinsley v….; the Post on Upping Exports; Boutique Bats

By Holly Yeager   Mar 24, 2010 at 06:17 PM

A lot of journalism is just asking the big, dumb question, and Michael Kinsley did a good job of that... More

Too Big to Fail and Reform

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 24, 2010 at 06:14 PM

Simon Johnson of Baseline Scenario points to a tough amendment to the not-so-tough Dodd financial-reform bill (so not-so-tough, in fact,... More

A Fresh Angle on Health Care? Leonhardt Delivers

By Holly Yeager   Mar 24, 2010 at 01:02 PM

We’ve given the Times’s David Leonhardt credit before for economic writing that threads the tricky “news analysis” needle, and, in... More

The Long Short

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 24, 2010 at 11:01 AM

Bloomberg has an interesting tale about hedge-fund biggie Bill Ackman's "greatest short ever," in an excerpt of a forthcoming book... More

Audit Notes: Hapless SEC, Murdoch’s Mega-Losses, BofA Repo 105

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 23, 2010 at 08:05 PM

Just when you thought your opinion of the SEC couldn't get any lower, the Washington Post goes and looks at... More