The Audit
Trivial Pursuit at ProPublica
By Dean Starkman Nov 6, 2009 at 09:32 AM
There is a journalistic school of thought emerging, I fear, that holds that because you went to the trouble of... More
Thursday Links: Goldie’s Gall, Chait Check, FSA
By Ryan Chittum Nov 5, 2009 at 06:33 PM
The Wall Street Journal reported a couple of days ago that Goldman Sachs (an Audit funder) is trying to buy... More
Regulation: Cool, At Last
By Dean Starkman Nov 5, 2009 at 12:15 PM
We appreciate the bizpress’s newfound attention to Washington political fights over regulatory and economic policy, and we’re not afraid to... More
Bloomberg Examines the Bank Lobby’s Armor
By Ryan Chittum Nov 5, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Bloomberg spotlights the Consumer Financial Protection Act and uses it as a jumping-off point for a smart story on the... More
Wednesday Links: Ad Comps, Recovery Engine, Coming Crash
By Ryan Chittum Nov 4, 2009 at 06:50 PM
The Wall Street Journal's Nat Worden makes the obvious point—one missed by some, including, apparently, lots of investors—that any potential... More
McClatchy: Goldman Laid Down with Dogs
By Ryan Chittum Nov 4, 2009 at 02:10 PM
Dean Starkman has been applauding McClatchy's series on Goldman Sachs (an Audit funder) for a couple of days now. Add... More
Bloomberg: Moneychangers in the Temples
By Ryan Chittum Nov 4, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Bloomberg notices that three prominent bankers in recent weeks have taken to UK churches to make the case that they're... More
The WSJ’s 3% Solution
By Dean Starkman Nov 4, 2009 at 07:17 AM
A Journal story this morning reports that a White House claim that the stimulus bill saved or created 640,000 jobs... More
Times Maintains Consumer Credit Drumbeat
By Dean Starkman Nov 3, 2009 at 11:15 AM
The Times has done a really nice job exploring dubious practices in the credit-card industry, not to mention efforts to... More
Foxy Headines in the New Journal
By Dean Starkman Nov 3, 2009 at 09:09 AM
The Murdoch Street Journal has been a slow-motion overhaul, and it takes a minute sometimes to realize that things you... More
As Goldman Turns
By Dean Starkman Nov 3, 2009 at 08:26 AM
For my money, McClatchy’s Goldman series remains the best show these days on business-press Broadway. It’s sort of the “Masterpiece... More
US Banker on Bank Rescues: “all so hit or miss.”
By Dean Starkman Nov 2, 2009 at 02:47 PM
Speaking of tick-tocks, and I recently was, American Banker's US Banker magazine just published a credible entry on the bank-rescue... More
Carr Has a Point about Business News In the Dumps
By Dean Starkman Nov 2, 2009 at 10:11 AM
David Carr looks at the business press and sees a connection between staffing cuts at business news outlets and the... More
McClatchy Tightens Ties Between Goldman and Predatory Lenders
By Dean Starkman Nov 2, 2009 at 07:33 AM
McClatchy is running a big series on Goldman Sachs that does what other business news organizations have so far failed... More
Friday Links: Pearlstein’s Fairy Tale, WSJ’s Results, Galleon
By Ryan Chittum Oct 30, 2009 at 02:57 PM
Steven Pearlstein has an excellent column in the Washington Post today explaining the problem with Wall Street compensation policies for... 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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