The Audit

China Stories: Good, Bad, Indifferent

By Holly Yeager   Mar 15, 2010 at 12:57 PM

There’s unusual depth to today’s flurry of China coverage, and that’s a good thing—mostly. The New York Times gets the... More

Michael Lewis Drops Some Wisdom on Wall Street

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 15, 2010 at 04:44 AM

I haven't read Michael Lewis's sure-to-be blockbuster The Big Short yet, but everybody ought to watch his appearance on 60... More

Audit Notes: Google “Grandeur,” Toxic Pet, Stop the Presses?

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 12, 2010 at 05:28 PM

Valleywag's Ryan Tate hammers Google about its "Six Delusions of Grandeur." Tate points to this stunning quote in Fortune from... More

The Lehman Scandal Breaks Wide Open

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 12, 2010 at 01:38 PM

Will Repo 105 be the Chewco and JEDI of this crisis, and are we finally about to see some people... More

Audit Notes: Investigative Budgets, Cable BS, The Audit Outsourced

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 11, 2010 at 09:33 PM

Amount the Lehman Brothers court examiner spent to investigate that single company: $38 million. Amount Congress has budgeted for the... More

The Really Real S&P 500

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 11, 2010 at 05:54 PM

I wrote a post called "The Real Dow" a couple of months ago about how the press almost always fails... More

Gensler, Derivatives, and the Causes of the Crisis

A Times story brings up several critical points for coverage of Wall Street and reform

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 11, 2010 at 12:17 PM

The New York Times profiles Gary Gensler, the Goldman alum and former deregulation advocate who's now pursuing reform with the... More

Audit Notes: FT “News,” Overdrafts Over at BofA, No Marketwatchdog

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 10, 2010 at 10:31 PM

There they go again. The Financial Times has a scoop so big it thought it decided we media types couldn't... More

Audit D.C. Notes: WSJ Good on Wall Street Muni Fees; Newsweek on Design, Bloomberg Goes Contrarian on Obama, Etc.

By Holly Yeager   Mar 10, 2010 at 03:54 PM

The Wall Street Journal digs into Build America Bonds, enacted as part of last year’s stimulus plan “to create jobs... More

Cranston Attorney Now a Journal Star

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 10, 2010 at 03:30 PM

It's probably a bad sign if you're a Rhode Island lawyer who's the subject of two page-one Wall Street Journal... More

Times Peeks Inside CFPA Dealmaking

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 10, 2010 at 10:46 AM

The New York Times has a great scoop on the making of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency bill sausage. No... More

Audit Notes: Sorkin GOP, Multi-Task Meacham, Salmon, Simon

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2010 at 08:53 PM

Andrew Ross Sorkin dips his toe into political commentary today in his DealBook column. Maybe he should stick to mergers:... More

Big Money, No Funny

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2010 at 07:55 PM

I get that everybody's trying to hop on the video bandwagon now since ad CPMs are so much higher than... More

Credit Cards, Credit Scores, and Citigroup

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2010 at 05:13 PM

In case you didn't know it—the banks still have you over a barrel. David Lazarus of the Los Angeles Times... More

A Weak Excuse for an Unemployment Story

By Holly Yeager   Mar 9, 2010 at 02:44 PM

The Washington Post takes some Senate bait for its page-one story about the long-term unemployed, and the result, is, well,... More