The Audit

Bloomberg Finds Conflicts of Interest in Debtland

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 5, 2009 at 08:57 AM

Bloomberg News is excellent this morning looking at yet another problem caused by the giant, unregulated credit-default swaps market. First... More

False Balance in the Times

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 4, 2009 at 09:51 PM

This unfortunate lede mars an otherwise solid story in the NYT today on how former Countrywide executives are now snatching... More

NYT Charts the Recession

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 4, 2009 at 01:09 PM

I really like this David Leonhardt column in the Times on who and where the recession is impacting most. It's... More

TARP Carp Is Hardly Convincing

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 4, 2009 at 09:47 AM

Daniel Gross over at Slate calls out the banks whining that the TARP billions they took are tying them down.... More

The Journal Outside the Bubble

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 4, 2009 at 08:58 AM

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent page-one story this morning exposing Merrill Lynch's top earners of 2008. It's another... More

Fortune’s Most Admired Banks

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 3, 2009 at 12:16 PM

1. Bank of America. Because you've got to admire a company that apparently makes it through the crisis only to... More

Who Could Have Seen This Coming?

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 3, 2009 at 09:58 AM

CNBC is now scrambling to undo the damage caused by Rick Santelli's outburst and NBC's aggressive promotion of the harangue.... More

AIG and the $19 Trillion

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 3, 2009 at 08:54 AM

The Times's Andrew Ross Sorkin has an interesting column based on an AIG document he got hold of that spells... More

ProPublica Advances OTS Story

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 2, 2009 at 03:50 PM

John Reich's tenure at The Office of Thrift Supervision was dismal. We've known that for a while. The Washington Post... More

Listening to Kilgore

In a new biography, the journalism pioneer has something to tell us; will we hear him?

By Dean Starkman   Mar 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM

Barney Kilgore, the inventor of the modern Wall Street Journal and, in important respects, the best of America journalism as... More

The Times’s Incredibly Uninteresting Google Feature

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 2, 2009 at 10:59 AM

I confess I just couldn't bring myself to read the jump of yesterday's 2,600 word New York Times piece on... More

Nocera Explains the AIG Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 2, 2009 at 08:40 AM

Joe Nocera's column in the Saturday Times is an excellent explanation of how sick the business practices were at AIG... More

Fortune: Pimco Too Big to Fail?

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 27, 2009 at 01:41 PM

I'm big on the common-sense idea that if a company is too big to fail that means it should have... More

Norris on the Fed’s Culpability

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 27, 2009 at 10:05 AM

Floyd Norris makes some very good points about the Federal Reserve this morning in The New York Times, noting that... More

Audit Interview: Mark Pittman

“This is a defining moment for business journalism and for Wall Street.”

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 27, 2009 at 08:45 AM

(UPDATE, November 29, 2009: Mark died a couple of days ago. It's a huge loss and we'll have more on... More