The Audit

The FT’s Wolf Highlights the Chinese Problem

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 9, 2009 at 03:42 PM

The Financial Times's Martin Wolf zeroes in on one of the critical economic problems that led to the credit crisis... More

The UK Windfall-Taxes Its Bankers

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 9, 2009 at 10:15 AM

The big news of the day, by our lights, comes from across the pond, where British regulators continue to outclass... More

Tuesday Links: Pay Matters, Tablet Econ, Windfall Tax, TBTF

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 8, 2009 at 05:11 PM

This is a must-read Financial Times column from a few days ago on why compensation really is an important issue... More

Reuters Overpromises, Underdelivers on New “Crisis”

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 8, 2009 at 02:58 PM

Here's a Reuters story that could desperately use some of that long-form, enterprise reporting the wire service says it's going... More

The Times Gets Tough on the Credit Raters

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 8, 2009 at 10:07 AM

The New York Times takes an excellent and necessary look at the Big Three credit-rating firms—critically important enablers of the... More

Monday Links: What About JP?, BB BW, McLean on Goldman

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 7, 2009 at 09:53 PM

Bloomberg's David Reilly writes a good column pointing out that while Goldman Sachs is getting all the flak right now,... More

WSJ Unbalanced on Business and Carbon

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 7, 2009 at 09:15 PM

The Wall Street Journal goes A1 with a "you don't say!" story saying Big Business is mad about the EPA... More

“He Could See Over”

A pal remembers Mark Pittman

By Dean Starkman   Dec 7, 2009 at 01:09 PM

This is a eulogy for Mark Pittman, a Loeb-award-winning Bloomberg reporter who died on Thanksgiving, given by his friend and... More

WSJ Warns That Systemic Risks Remain

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 7, 2009 at 06:05 AM

The Wall Street Journal has a good column this morning warning pretty starkly about the huge risks that are still... More

Friday Links: More Enterprise, Citi TARP, Snake Oil Salesmen

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 4, 2009 at 05:41 PM

Good news in the news business (really!). Reuters tells PaidContent it's committing more resources to longer-form enterprise reporting as part... More

Reuters Scoop: FBI Eyes on SAC Capital

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 4, 2009 at 04:24 PM

Reuters has the humdinger story of the day. What's mostly a profile of FBI agent B.J. Kang breaks quite a... More

Bloomberg Covers Yet Another Swap Flop

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 4, 2009 at 10:17 AM

A Bloomberg story this morning points (me, anyway,) to a simple conclusion: state and local governments need to stay away... More

Thursday Links: FDIC Fudge, Plutocracy, Pale Sales

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 3, 2009 at 07:06 PM

Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil says the FDIC is setting a real fine example for its charges by fudging its own books.... More

NYT Inside the Comcast-GE Deal

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 3, 2009 at 04:12 PM

The New York Times is just flat-out impressive this morning on the Comcast deal for NBC Universal. Its Andrew Ross... More

A WSJ Look at Creepy Iranian Repression

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 3, 2009 at 06:01 AM

The Wall Street Journal has an important piece of foreign reportage on the front page this morning. Farnaz Fassihi reports... More