The Audit

Wall Street Stayed Put Despite Pay Fixes

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 23, 2010 at 09:25 AM

Wall Street is a slippery beast. Whenever it's faced with the prospect of regulatory circumscription, it threatens to take its... More

Audit Notes: Greenspan’s Gall, Presidentializing Markets, Megabanks

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 22, 2010 at 08:13 PM

Barry Ritholtz wrote an excellent post explaining to Alan Greenspan why, yes, his low-interest-rate policies were critical in the creation... More

Murdoch’s Unhealthy Obsession

Taking on The New York Times isn’t risk-free for the Journal

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 22, 2010 at 02:07 PM

Richard Pérez-Peña has several interesting bits in his piece on the soon-to-commence Battle for New York between his own New... More

WaPo’s Divorce-in-the-Downturn Story Needs Data Injection

By Holly Yeager   Mar 22, 2010 at 12:12 PM

The Washington Post takes a longish look at another slice of life in the downturn: divorce. This is a story... More

Audit Notes: Better Cohan, Ernst Whopper, WSJ Walkback

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 19, 2010 at 07:00 PM

I was highly critical of a William D. Cohan piece in the Times two weeks ago pleading for mercy for... More

Pittman-Bloomberg Fed Lawsuit Scores Again

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 19, 2010 at 02:26 PM

Bloomberg has won another victory in its battle to force the Federal Reserve to reveal details of its multi-trillion-dollar bailouts—ones... More

Scoring the CBO Score

By Holly Yeager   Mar 19, 2010 at 11:34 AM

Amid all the spinning and sparring over the Congressional Budget Office’s assessment of health care legislation, a couple of stories... More

Newser, The Fly on the Wall, and Aggregation

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 19, 2010 at 10:30 AM

Rarely will you see an aggregator state his business model so forthrightly as Michael Wolff, founder of Newser, does today... More

Audit Notes: Hiltzik on Lehman, Regulator Bonuses, iPad Ads

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 18, 2010 at 07:52 PM

Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik pulls a non-Repo 105 angle out of the Valukas Report on Lehman Brothers' collapse:... More

Another New York Judge Embarrasses the SEC

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 18, 2010 at 04:07 PM

Will Judge William Pauley III now join Judge Jed Rakoff as one of the few heroes of the crisis? The... More

Tax Talk

By Holly Yeager   Mar 18, 2010 at 02:09 PM

It might not be a full-fledged meme change, but the idea that tax increases could really be on tap has... More

Problems in an NYT Column

The paper quoted anonymous sources on a Lehman whistleblower but offered no chance for a response

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 18, 2010 at 10:15 AM

There are some real journalistic lapses in a New York Times column Tuesday that quoted anonymous sources about a Lehman... More

Audit Notes (All-Lehman Edition): Round-Trip, Clueless, Felix on Fire

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 17, 2010 at 06:55 PM

Francine McKenna of Re: The Auditors weighs in on the Chittum/Carney fracas over Lehman prosecutions. She's on the side of... More

Reuters Is Excellent in Digging Up a Health Insurer’s Tactics

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 17, 2010 at 05:28 PM

Reuters has an eye-opening investigation today showing how the health-insurance company Assurant Health (formerly called Fortis) systematically targeted sick patients... More

Audit D.C. Notes: The Post on Chamber Politics, Roll Call on K St. Pay, Hoop Dreams

By Holly Yeager   Mar 17, 2010 at 04:07 PM

The Chamber of Commerce, that under-covered business behemoth, gets welcome attention from The Washington Post, which reports on the group’s... More