The Audit

A Good Dose of Common Sense Heard on the Street

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 3, 2009 at 06:02 PM

The Journal's Simon Nixon has a nice Heard on the Street column today, noting that "Bankers Have Only Themselves to... More

Calculating the Benefits of Cash for Clunkers

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 3, 2009 at 01:24 PM

Yesterday I tipped The Audit's cap to a nifty bit of analysis from Calculated Risk pointing out that the real... More

WSJ’s Wessel on the Deficit and Taxing the Rich

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 3, 2009 at 10:25 AM

The Wall Street Journal's David Wessel has a useful column looking at whether and how much tax increases on the... More

Calculating the Clunkers’ Real Cost to Taxpayers

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 2, 2009 at 10:06 AM

Calculated Risk has a smart bit of economic analysis on the real cost to taxpayers of the Cash for Clunkers... More

The FT on the Bloat in Banking

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 1, 2009 at 03:57 PM

The debate in the U.S. over how to reform the financial system has been overshadowed by the health-care hubbub. It's... More

Lazy Summer Musings from the WSJ D.C. Bureau

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 1, 2009 at 01:36 PM

The Wall Street Journal wants you to know why the town halls were so rowdy this summer. Here's its stilted... More

Gannett Spins the Hamster Wheel

By Dean Starkman   Aug 31, 2009 at 05:09 PM

It is disturbing, to say the least, to see American newspapers chewing their own legs off as they try to... More

NYT’s Rejoinder on Obama and the Deficit

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 31, 2009 at 02:48 PM

Last Wednesday, I got on the Washington Post for a poor page-one story on the $9 trillion budget deficit—a piece... More

Bloomberg on the Derivatives Lobby

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 31, 2009 at 10:30 AM

Bloomberg this morning takes a hard look on the Wall Street lobby, writing that it's "suiting up for a battle... More

What’s Going Down on the Farm? Ask the Bankers

The devolution of The Wall Street Journal’s page one

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 28, 2009 at 03:51 PM

Gawker had an interesting quote from an anonymous Wall Street Journal staffer this morning on the Mark Penn controversy. "While... More

WaPo: Big Bad Banks Are Getting Bigger, Badder

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 28, 2009 at 01:04 PM

The Washington Post has a story after my own heart this morning on how the Too Big to Fail guys... More

A Needless Ethical Slip

By Dean Starkman   Aug 28, 2009 at 10:59 AM

The WSJ’s current ethical snafu of hiring the head of a global PR giant to write a column, even on... More

FOI MIA at the FDIC

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 27, 2009 at 08:40 PM

American Banker reported earlier this week that the FDIC has done an about-face on disclosure—and not in the right direction.... More

Brill Rakes Muck in NYC Schools

Fine urban-affairs reporting in the New Yorker. More please.

By Dean Starkman   Aug 27, 2009 at 05:30 PM

Steven Brill’s New Yorker story on the quagmire that is the New York City school system is an example of... More

One Story, Two Angles from the WSJ and NYT

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 27, 2009 at 10:37 AM

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal don't agree on what happened yesterday with a new rule governing private-equity... More