The Audit

Say ‘Hey’ to WSJ on Pay

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 23, 2009 at 11:50 AM

Credit The Wall Street Journal for some good number-crunching and analysis today on a hidden facet of executive pay, which—guess... More

Thain the Vain

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 23, 2009 at 09:26 AM

And so now we have our Dennis Kozlowski, our Leona Helmsley of the current crisis. Thanks to Charlie Gasparino of... More

Audit Interview: Alan D. Mutter

“We have an enormous number of reporters today, especially at newspapers, who are reporting on the obvious.”

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 23, 2009 at 08:36 AM

Alan D. Mutter is a veteran of the ink-stained days who in the two decades since he left as No.... More

WSJ Peeks Under the TARP

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 22, 2009 at 11:29 AM

The Journal has some excellent reporting today on TARP and how political influence is playing out in who gets money.... More

Good Scoop by the FT

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 22, 2009 at 10:25 AM

Merrill Lynch paid out about $4 billion in bonuses just days before Bank of America took it over, the Financial... More

Vindication for the Journal

By Dean Starkman   Jan 22, 2009 at 09:15 AM

With the dispatching of Sir Win Bischoff from the chairmanship of Citigroup, following the dismantling of its financial supermarket model... More

Solid Post Reporting on Regulation

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 22, 2009 at 08:37 AM

The Washington Post has a very good story this morning on bank regulation. It found that at least thirty banks... More

Roubini: Banks Are Insolvent

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 21, 2009 at 01:09 PM

You know things are bad when an assertion like this doesn't seem that surprising at first glance: U.S. financial losses... More

Unsettling News From Liberty Street

By Dean Starkman   Jan 21, 2009 at 12:25 PM

The WSJ reports: The Wall Street Journal has received more than a dozen envelopes containing an unknown white powder, and... More

Obama “Prepared” to Take on the Banks Mess?

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 21, 2009 at 10:52 AM

The most pressing question for the new administration is what to do about the banks, which are again threatening to... More

FT on Newspaper Ownership

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 21, 2009 at 08:42 AM

The FT has a confused story this morning on the newspaper industry. Its headline says "Newspapers turn into rich mens’... More

Time Counts the Bush Economic Errors

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 20, 2009 at 09:54 AM

Justin Fox at Time hits the right notes in a piece on “Bush's Economic Mistakes”. Fox lists eight big ones,... More

Nationalize the Banks or Just the Losses?

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 20, 2009 at 08:21 AM

Paul Krugman's column yesterday deserves not to get lost in the holiday/inauguration shuffle He fires back at the “bad bank”... More

A City in the Ditch

Weekly Standard, Labash, and LeDuff look beyond “Detroit.”

By Elinore Longobardi   Jan 19, 2009 at 08:05 AM

An Audit Credit to The Weekly Standard for helping to fill one of the business press’s yawning reality gaps: the... More

The Press and Steve Jobs

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 16, 2009 at 09:25 AM

The controversy over Apple CEO Steve Jobs' health is all over the press, and with it, questions about how the... More