The Audit

Stock Market Chart of the Day: Socialism vs. Cowboy Capitalism

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 21, 2011 at 12:19 PM

In the appendix of that report on executive compensation and inequality that the Washington Post wrote about the other day,... More

Nocera vs Sorkin, Bank Capital Edition

By Felix Salmon   Jun 21, 2011 at 10:31 AM

One of the consequences of Joe Nocera's move to the NYT op-ed page is that his column now appears on... More

Executive Compensation As the Driver of Inequality

A well reported Washington Post story makes a solid case

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 20, 2011 at 05:51 PM

The Washington Post leads off its new series on inequality with a killer anecdote: It was the 1970s, and the... More

The Hamster Wheel and the AOL Way

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM

Audit Chief Dean Starkman's "Hamster Wheel" piece has now been enshrined in the lexicon of the bureaucracy with the release... More

Audit Notes: Cash Giveaway, Bloomberg Views (in the WSJ), Lede of the Week

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 17, 2011 at 08:40 PM

Jeff Amy of the Mobile Press-Register has some good reporting on corporate welfare in Alabama. He writes that businesses aren't... More

SEC Scooplets From the WSJ

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 17, 2011 at 12:28 PM

The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that the SEC is finally considering charging the credit raters—critical components of the... More

The Press Notes the Euro Crisis Threatens the U.S. Too

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 16, 2011 at 05:47 PM

It's beginning to dawn on the U.S. press that the slow-motion crash of the European Union just might have some... More

An Excellent WSJ Probe Finds Corporate Jet Abuse

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 16, 2011 at 01:34 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a terrific investigation into executive abuse of corporate jets and shows that companies are violating... More

Dealbook’s Goldman Debate

By Felix Salmon   Jun 15, 2011 at 09:01 PM

It’s the big Dealbook debate! In the red corner, there’s Andrew Ross Sorkin, defending Goldman Sachs from Senator Carl Levin’s... More

Organizing via Facebook in the Age of Union-Busting

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 15, 2011 at 08:18 PM

The New York Times's Steven Greenhouse has an interesting report today on a group of Walmart workers who are organizing—just... More

FT: SEC Investigates a Magnetar Deal

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 15, 2011 at 12:42 PM

The FT's Kara Scannell scoops that the SEC is investigating a Magnetar CDO deal, probing Merrill Lynch and its handpicked... More

Gawker’s Rebound

By Felix Salmon   Jun 14, 2011 at 04:25 PM

It's been more than six months since sales chief Chris Batty left Gawker Media as Nick Denton decided he was... More

The Unimportance Lobby (UPDATED)

The NYT shows Big Finance pushing to avoid a “systematically important” designation

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 13, 2011 at 03:31 PM

The New York Times had a good look yesterday at how big financial companies are lobbying Washington to not be... More

Bloomberg’s Weil Exposes Another Accounting Regulator Coverup

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 10, 2011 at 07:08 PM

Jonathan Weil has a tough Bloomberg View column about accounting regulators covering up wrongdoing by companies and their auditors. Back... More

AT&T Buys Nonprofit Support for its Anticompetitive Merger

Politico and the Washington Post follow the money

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 10, 2011 at 03:39 PM

It ought to raise eyebrows when groups like the NAACP, GLAAD, and the nation's largest teachers union lobby to approve... More