The Audit

Outsourcing Investigations to the Suspects

The Washington Post looks at how the SEC lets companies probe themselves

By Ryan Chittum   May 23, 2011 at 12:48 PM

If you're a watchdog/government regulator and you suspect a company of committing crimes, it's probably not the best idea to... More

Audit Notes: The Massey Report, Objectivity Comics, The Ultrawealthy

By Ryan Chittum   May 20, 2011 at 08:06 PM

Here are the ledes from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times stories this morning on the Massey... More

Adventures With CNBC Anchors’ Statistics

By Felix Salmon   May 20, 2011 at 04:21 PM

CNBC’s Joe Kernen reports the news in the morning in a fast-paced environment where it’s difficult to be 100% accurate.... More

WNYC On Welfare for the Well-to-Do in the Bronx

By Ryan Chittum   May 20, 2011 at 02:42 PM

Talk about an emblem of welfare for rich folks: Parking garages built for the New York Yankees to accompany their... More

A HuffPost Scoop, Overlooked By the Mainstream Press

HUD finds big banks defrauded taxpayers, but few follow the story

By Ryan Chittum   May 19, 2011 at 07:43 PM

Shahien Nasiripour scored a foreclosure-fraud scandal scoop for The Huffington Post on Monday, reporting that audits of the mortgage industry... More

LinkedIn Bubble Trouble

How to report (and what not to leave out) on signs of frothiness in Silicon Valley

By Ryan Chittum   May 19, 2011 at 12:20 PM

I've had a bit of a back and forth on Twitter in the last day with Business Insider's Joe Weisenthal,... More

Audit Notes: McKenna on Lowenstein; U.S., Island Rogue; Stat of the Day

By Ryan Chittum   May 18, 2011 at 06:32 PM

Francine McKenna over at Forbes takes a swing at Roger Lowenstein's "Wall Street: Not Guilty" piece (see my take... More

WaPo Short-Arms a Promising Piece on Factory Jobs

By Ryan Chittum   May 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM

The Washington Post gives us an interesting but blurry snapshot of the economy, looking at how the news about manufacturing,... More

Lowenstein Lets Wall Street Off the Hook

Not so fast.

By Ryan Chittum   May 17, 2011 at 02:37 PM

Roger Lowenstein has a big piece out in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, an apology for Wall Street—duly celebrated by The New York... More

Sorkin and The Fiscal Times on Taxing the Rich

By Felix Salmon   May 17, 2011 at 01:01 PM

Andrew Ross Sorkin gives credence — but doesn’t directly link to — Karen Hube’s rather offensive analysis of what it... More

The Big, and Little, Mortgage-Fraud News

By Felix Salmon   May 17, 2011 at 11:14 AM

Shahien Nasiripour had a very important scoop yesterday—a set of confidential federal audits has found a pattern of mortgage fraud... More

Audit Notes: WSJ on Selling Access, Wall Street-Style; Yanked; Small Paywalls

By Ryan Chittum   May 16, 2011 at 08:25 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a very good page-one story on how Wall Street gives hedge funds access to key... More

Audit Notes: WSJ’s Deceptive Edits, NYT Glows for Bharara, Cohan Glowers

By Ryan Chittum   May 13, 2011 at 07:50 PM

Jon Chait and Kevin Drum team up for a nifty demolition of that Wall Street Journal editorial page deception I... More

Now It’s the NYT’s Turn to Take On Trump Inc.

By Ryan Chittum   May 13, 2011 at 11:28 AM

On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times took a good look at Donald Trump's business empire and how he built it... More

Audit Notes: Slick Politics, Greece’s Red Flag, What Caused Oil’s Tumble?

By Ryan Chittum   May 12, 2011 at 08:35 PM

I noted a Huffington Post story the other day reporting that removing drilling bans wouldn't really affect the price of... More