The Audit

WSJ, Times at Odds on Citi Earnings

By Dean Starkman   Oct 16, 2009 at 09:00 AM

I'm sure this is much more a function of the unholy mess that is Citigroup's income statement—many a journalistic braincell... More

Thursday Links: Dow 7,714, Student Loan Bailout, Lobbyists

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 15, 2009 at 07:42 PM

David Weidner has a good take on Dow 10,000 (Part XXVI), emphasizing it represents a "lost decade of stock investing."... More

Nieman, Galbraith on the Power Problem

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 15, 2009 at 04:51 PM

Nieman Watchdog asks "Where's the reporting on the fraud that led to the crash?" Funny, The Audit, and especially Audit... More

Financial Press Perennially Surprised by “Placement Agents”

By Dean Starkman   Oct 15, 2009 at 04:23 PM

The financial pages this morning are filled with the disclosure by Calpers that money-management firms seeking business from the big... More

Understanding Citi Losses in its Predatory Roots

Learn more in a 2003 alt media piece than in all business media put together

By Dean Starkman   Oct 15, 2009 at 10:30 AM

I see that Citigroup, amid boom times for other mega banks, got slammed again in its third-quarter earnings, primarily because... More

Most of the Press Misses Fed Overdraft News

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 15, 2009 at 10:05 AM

The Wall Street Journal and USA Today have one of the biggest news stories of the day: The Federal Reserve... More

Wednesday Links: Crooked Heart, No Smell, Paying for News

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 14, 2009 at 06:57 PM

Joe Nocera, fresh off slamming banks on Saturday, makes fools of them today on their line that they didn't cause... More

Geithner’s Aides and Wall Street Pay

A Bloomberg story adds perspective to a WSJ report on record banker bonuses

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 14, 2009 at 04:05 PM

I want to applaud some solid enterprise work at Bloomberg and the Journal and see if we can play one... More

Intellectually Bankrupt, Firms Try to Squash Dissent

By Dean Starkman   Oct 14, 2009 at 03:47 PM

Crain's New York's Aaron Elstein has a good story about financially troubled corporations suing research firms that issue negative reports.... More

BusinessWeek to Grow—Really!

All but left for dead two months ago, the weekly will expand its pages

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 14, 2009 at 01:21 PM

Fortune and Forbes better look out. BusinessWeek, just a couple of months ago given decent odds to disappear from the... More

WSJ on Eminent Domain in Brooklyn

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 14, 2009 at 10:24 AM

It's almost never a bad idea to do an eminent-domain story, especially the Kelo-type ones that pit the government in... More

Tuesday Links: Scrubbed Dirty, Game Theory, Taxes

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2009 at 07:10 PM

Charles Duhigg's investigation of the state of the nation's water continues today with an excellent piece on page one of... More

BizWeek Emblematic of the Fall of Print

From $1 billion to less than $5 million in nine years

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2009 at 06:37 PM

The big business-media news this week will be BusinessWeek's sale to Bloomberg for $2 million to $5 million plus the... More

NYT’s Sorkin Is Confused on Goldman Bonuses

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2009 at 04:27 PM

Clueless paragraph of the day: But we can’t have it both ways, either. At one moment, many in the nation... More

Stimulate This!

Slate’s Gross debunks stimulus nonsense

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2009 at 01:55 PM

Like Daniel Gross, I get the impression that people, including many journalists, just can't get their heads around the stimulus.... More