The Audit

Fortune and the Christian Chicken Companies

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 10, 2009 at 04:43 PM

I'd like to peck Fortune for a funny error in a story trying to be cute about chicken companies and... More

FT Excels on Complexity and Capitalism’s Future

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 10, 2009 at 02:47 PM

The Financial Times is running a very good (so far) series it calls "The Future of Capitalism" this week. At... More

Journal with a Good Angle on the NYT Deal

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 10, 2009 at 10:03 AM

The Journal's Heard on the Street column has a valuable look at The New York Times Company's financial straits today.... More

Housing Columnist Hasn’t Learned from the Bubble

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 10, 2009 at 08:41 AM

Can you spot the problem here? ...would you sell the rights to future appreciation to an investor who also is... More

Working the AIG Beat

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2009 at 04:05 PM

The Journal's good scoop this weekend on the AIG counterparties is somewhat furthered today by Fortune's Carol Loomis. And now... More

Derivatives Echo Chamber

The business press largely parroted industry on a massive, prescient ‘94 GAO study

By Elinore Longobardi   Mar 9, 2009 at 01:26 PM

The Audit wants to know. What role did the press play in diffusing financial warnings in the years leading up... More

NPR, Starkman on the Pre-Crisis Press Coverage

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2009 at 09:50 AM

David Folkenflik of NPR looked this morning at how the media performed in the runup to the crisis, and The... More

Laughing Down the Prophets

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2009 at 09:30 AM

I ran across this clip last week, and think it's a pretty eye-opening example of how bears and outliers are... More

Bloomberg Looks at Merrill’s $34 Million Man

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2009 at 08:40 AM

Bloomberg keeps the Andrea Orcel story alive with a nice piece today. Orcel is the Merrill Lynch banker who took... More

WSJ Exposes Corruption at the FDA

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 6, 2009 at 04:23 PM

The Journal on page one today shines a bright light on some shady doings at the FDA, finding that Democratic... More

It’s Obama’s Bear Market, Says Bloomberg

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 6, 2009 at 11:52 AM

We've seen a meme spreading like a fungus in the press, mostly on the editorial/analysis/commentator side so far, blaming Barack... More

Transparency for AIG Gets a Boost

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 6, 2009 at 08:55 AM

Lawmakers are finally getting seriously ticked off at the Federal Reserve for concealing who is really benefiting from the bailout... More

Remains of the Day

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 5, 2009 at 08:11 PM

-- A couple of professors in an NYT op-ed make a convincing case that the Obama/Geithner housing bailout is doomed... More

Journal Writes, Journal Gets Results

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 5, 2009 at 04:02 PM

It was just yesterday that we saw the WSJ's impressive effort tracking down the bonus babies at Merrill Lynch, who... More

The Daily Show Eviscerates Santelli and CNBC

Criticism of both lands bruising blows

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 5, 2009 at 11:05 AM

In the annals of business-press criticism, we are humbled to have to admit that there may have never been anything... More