The Audit

Carrying Water for White-Collar Criminals

William D. Cohan pleads for a Goldman convict to be pardoned

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 5, 2010 at 03:45 PM

Edward Ericson Jr. of Baltimore City Paper points us to a long, weird William D. Cohan blog piece at New... More

Support for WSJ’s Jobs Optimism is Thin

By Holly Yeager   Mar 5, 2010 at 12:12 PM

There’s plenty of green-shoot glory in the Journal’s Ahead of the Tape column, which uses accelerating corporate profits to help... More

Revisiting That Hyped WSJ Hedge-Fund Story

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 5, 2010 at 05:20 AM

Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran an odd story on its front page headlined "Hedge Funds Pound Euro"—something Felix... More

Audit Notes: Bennett on Health Care, Fortune, WaPo Digital, Facebook

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 4, 2010 at 07:24 PM

Bloomberg editor Amanda Bennett has a remarkable story today recounting her husband's battle with cancer, how much it cost to... More

TNR on Obama and Regulation

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 4, 2010 at 05:55 PM

Secretary of Audit Dean Starkman has often criticized the press for its lackluster coverage of regulation, while acknowledging that it's... More

Stiglitz, Wolf, Pearlstein, Huffington: Media & Economics Conference, April 6

RSVP Now

By Dean Starkman   Mar 4, 2010 at 05:25 PM

A day-long conference on Columbia University's campus will explore the problems and opportunities posed by reporting on a financial... More

NYT’s Rose-Colored Small Biz Scenario

By Holly Yeager   Mar 4, 2010 at 01:03 PM

The New York Times paints an awfully pretty picture of older workers who decide to launch their own businesses. Trouble... More

CNBC Millionaires Don’t Believe in Predatory Lending

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 4, 2010 at 04:21 AM

Barry Ritholtz points to this ludicrous CNBC segment where everyone gangs up on Janet Tavakoli for pointing out the obvious:... More

Audit Notes: Monopoly Culture, Health Care, SNLers on CFPA

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 3, 2010 at 09:27 PM

Thomas Frank reviews an interesting-looking book on monopolies in the American economy—one that argues that there are more than you... More

The NYT Muffs the Second-Day Fed-CFPA Story

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 3, 2010 at 04:20 PM

The New York Times tries to play catch-up on the proposal to put the Consumer Financial Protection Agency inside the... More

Meme Change

By Holly Yeager   Mar 3, 2010 at 12:50 PM

It looks like an economic meme change is on the way, with some thoughtful columnists charting the course. The Times’s... More

Corporate Welfare Columns, Yea and Nay

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 3, 2010 at 09:51 AM

The Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein takes on corporate welfare at the local level today and shows how such a column... More

Audit Notes: Deflation, SEC Wrist Slap, ARMs

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 2, 2010 at 06:53 PM

It seems odd that the press hasn't written more about the threat of deflation. Paul Krugman, no inflation hawk he,... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Collender on reconciliation; WSJ on stalled jobs

By Holly Yeager   Mar 2, 2010 at 06:16 PM

--Stan Collender shows why he’s considered one of Washington’s brighter budget bulbs, with a Roll Call column that explains why... More

Lessons in Rahmology

The arc of a who’s-up, who’s-down story

By Holly Yeager   Mar 2, 2010 at 03:42 PM

The Washington Post gives White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel the page-one attention that befits this big personality with... More