The Audit

NYT: Fabulous Fab Pointed Fingers at Goldman

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 1, 2011 at 01:16 PM

Louise Story and Gretchen Morgenson raise a good question in their agenda-setting piece in The New York Times this morning:... More

Audit Notes: WSJ Calls Out AT&T; Goldman and Qaddafi; Banks Hit the Road

By Ryan Chittum   May 31, 2011 at 11:45 PM

I wish more papers would do what The Wall Street Journal does today in its story about antitrust concerns over... More

Apology Due

Audit Arbiter says Felix Salmon was off-base and needlessly mean in a 2007 post on a columnist

By Martha M. Hamilton   May 31, 2011 at 03:38 PM

Felix Salmon, an Audit contributor, asked for an arbiter to look into the complaints of a writer named Sean... More

Bloomberg’s Thin “Made in the USA” Story

Marketers run amok on a luxury manufacturing renaissance

By Ryan Chittum   May 31, 2011 at 12:58 PM

This Bloomberg News story on luxury brands waving the red, white, and blue leaves much to be desired. First, it's... More

Audit Notes: Saudis Blame Wall Street, Made in the U.S., Victims’ Big Haircut

By Ryan Chittum   May 27, 2011 at 08:07 PM

This is very interesting: Kevin G. Hall of McClatchy reports on some Wikileaks cables that show the Saudis telling the... More

Zombie Lie Laboratory Creates 62 Percent Tax Rate Plan

The Wall Street Journal editorial page at work

By Ryan Chittum   May 27, 2011 at 02:31 PM

Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal editorial board hacks out an instant classic on how to mislead people with... More

Elizabeth Warren Is Smeared, and the Press Is Along for the Ride

McHenry controversy shows the media copping out with he said-she said stories

By Ryan Chittum   May 27, 2011 at 11:29 AM

You'd think the press could resist the he said-she said copy when the truth is easy to discern. Congressman Patrick... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg Blues, Weil Audits Goldman’s Board, Does Not Compute

By Ryan Chittum   May 26, 2011 at 07:54 PM

Slate's Jack Shafer shreds Bloomberg View, the new Bloomberg editorial page. He writes, "I'd rather go blind than look at... More

Bloomberg Ferrets Out New Details on the Fed’s Bailouts

By Ryan Chittum   May 26, 2011 at 01:43 PM

There were so many bailouts going on in 2008 that Congress apparently forgot about some of them. Bloomberg gets a... More

Audit Notes: Marketers’ Memories, Labor’s Last Legs, Fortune in Afghanistan

By Ryan Chittum   May 25, 2011 at 07:44 PM

Over at Wired, Jonah Lehrer looks at how marketers invade our heads: A new study, published in The Journal of... More

How to Corner the Oil Market

CFTC suit says traders manipulated crude prices in 2008; revisiting a Journal piece

By Ryan Chittum   May 25, 2011 at 02:56 PM

The papers all play up the big news that Commodity Futures Trading Commission lawsuit is accusing three companies of helping... More

Audit Notes: Insider Trading on the Hill, Taibbi, Deficit vs. Jobs Coverage

By Ryan Chittum   May 24, 2011 at 08:11 PM

Dan Froomkin of The Huffington Post reports on some very interesting research finding that the investment portfolios of members of... More

WaPo Pulls Up Short On Trade and Tariffs

By Ryan Chittum   May 24, 2011 at 02:12 PM

The Washington Post looks at what happens when the U.S. actually fights low-priced Chinese imports with tariffs: The factories move... More

Wrong Q’s in an NYT Q&A

Softballs for the CEO of Deloitte, auditor of financial-crisis failures

By Francine McKenna   May 24, 2011 at 12:29 PM

The Sunday New York Times Business Day section regularly features, “Corner Office,” a column by deputy national editor Adam Bryant,... More

Audit Notes: Investigators Eye the Wall Street Mortgage Machine

By Ryan Chittum   May 23, 2011 at 08:19 PM

After years of going nowhere, the investigation of the Wall Street securitization machine behind the financial crisis is finally showing... More