The Audit

CBS Throws Debt Numbers Against Wall

By Holly Yeager   Mar 17, 2010 at 12:23 PM

CBS News is getting a lot of diggs, tweets and shares for its story on the latest national debt numbers... More

WSJ on a New Municipal “Move Your Money” Push

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 17, 2010 at 10:41 AM

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent story this morning on a nascent trend among municipalities to put their money... More

Audit Notes: Battle of NYC, Fed, Complexity, Big Mac Subsidies

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 16, 2010 at 08:38 PM

About the last thing we need now is a newspaper war, but Rupert Murdoch is Rupert Murdoch, so here we... More

Audit D.C. Notes: The FT Looks at the Lobbyist Set; WSJ on Credit Agencies, NPR on the Dow, Etc.

By Holly Yeager   Mar 16, 2010 at 04:02 PM

The Financial Times takes a look something that all too often gets treated like wallpaper in Washington, the persistent power... More

Reporting from the Examining Room

By Holly Yeager   Mar 16, 2010 at 12:55 PM

The New York Times gets credit for going where few bother, into the examining rooms of doctors who see Medicaid... More

Leeway for Lehman Brothers

Clusterstock’s Carney trips all over himself arguing against prosecutions

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 16, 2010 at 10:33 AM

I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that John Carney thinks "We Should Not Criminally Prosecute Lehman Executives." After all, this... More

Audit Notes: Strong Leder, Online Ads, CNBC Deathmatch

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 15, 2010 at 07:38 PM

— The Wall Street Journal has a very good leder today looking at how the dearth of credit is crimping... More

Blogs Beat the Press on the Lehman Brothers Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 15, 2010 at 04:20 PM

And just like that the Lehman Brothers scandal drops off the front pages. And not just the front pages—the section... More

Audit D.C. Notes: NYT Does Well at (Trade) School; WaPo on Earmarks, Squeezed in Ypsilanti, Etc.

By Holly Yeager   Mar 15, 2010 at 04:01 PM

The New York Times continues its excellent series on “The New Poor” with a look at the for-profit colleges and... More

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