The Audit
Audit Notes: Bloomberg on Why It’s Hard Being Green; K Street Roll Call; Reuters on AIG’s latest, etc.
By Dean Starkman and Holly Yeager Feb 4, 2010 at 06:27 PM
--Bloomberg has a smart take on the problem of subsidizing green jobs: a lot of them are created in China.... More
The Journal Reveals Yet Another Mortgage Bug
By Dean Starkman Feb 4, 2010 at 10:49 AM
This is just a good story by Carrick Mollenkamp in the Journal this morning, showing one more trapdoor in the... More
Audit Notes: WSJ v. Pay-to-Play; NIM(Budget)BY; Limousine Liberal, etc.
By Dean Starkman Feb 3, 2010 at 06:03 PM
--Pay-to-play is a scourge of local and state government, and the Journal does a good job ferreting it out this... More
Toyota No Longer Attacking the L.A. Times
By Dean Starkman Feb 3, 2010 at 02:05 PM
The business press has done well documenting Toyota’s spiraling problems, including this morning’s news that U.S. regulators are accusing the... More
Audit Notes: Reuters Withdraws; Leaving Las Vegas; Reregulation, etc.
By Dean Starkman Feb 2, 2010 at 07:02 PM
--Talking Points Memo had a nice catch of Reuters pulling a story headlined "Backdoor taxes to hit middle class" after... More
Target-Rich Environment
By Holly Yeager Feb 2, 2010 at 02:34 PM
We’re all for flood-the-zone coverage of the budget, so a tip of The Audit’s green eyeshade to The Wall Street... More
Volcker Pushed Back
By Dean Starkman Feb 2, 2010 at 10:40 AM
When Wall Street doesn’t like something, one thing is certain: the public will hear about it. The pushback on the... More
Audit Notes: Times Nicked; Defining Populism; Special Dividends; Intrepid Blogger, etc.
By Dean Starkman Feb 1, 2010 at 06:24 PM
--NYTPicker, an anonymous site devoting to giving the Times a hard time, has an interesting item that says the paper... More
On Paulson’s Sole-Source Account in the WSJ’s News Pages
By Dean Starkman Feb 1, 2010 at 01:24 PM
On page 350 of Too Big To Fail, Andrew Ross Sorkin reports on how Hank Paulson reacted that fateful Sunday,... More
NYT’s AIG Story Puts Spotlight on State Insurance Regulation
By Dean Starkman Feb 1, 2010 at 10:49 AM
The anachronism that is state-based insurance regulation has basically gotten a pass in the financial crisis—what with all the problems... More
Audit Notes: Uh Oh, Joe Cassano; Asian Markets; BW Hires
By Ryan Chittum Jan 29, 2010 at 06:54 PM
Reuters reports that AIG may have misled investors on material information related to its exposure to subprime mortgages. Investigative reporter... More
Mortgage Securitization in the Roaring Twenties
By Ryan Chittum Jan 29, 2010 at 04:18 PM
Floyd Norris has a fascinating column today on new research that shows, yet again, that there's nothing new under the... More
Bloomberg’s Reilly Wrecks the Lex on Fed/AIG
By Ryan Chittum Jan 29, 2010 at 11:07 AM
Bloomberg's David Reilly has a terrific column up today on the New York Federal Reserve and what's wrong with its... More
Audit Notes: Lex Dreck, Recourse, Extend and Pretend
By Ryan Chittum Jan 28, 2010 at 09:39 PM
This is a bad sentiment for a journalist to have: Postmortems are revealing. But too much poking is damaging. That's... More
Goldman, Gawker, and the Journal
By Ryan Chittum Jan 28, 2010 at 06:31 PM
Here's a good example of reporting by old media getting amplified and expanded upon by new media. The Wall Street... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
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