The Audit

Audit Notes: The Dimon Dare; Bloomberg’s Bank FOIA, Hamsters Attack!

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 30, 2011 at 07:13 PM

The Financial Times reports tonight that press favorite Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, that regulation is going to kill... More

SIGTARP Barofsky Skewers Treasury’s TARP Defense

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 30, 2011 at 11:51 AM

Today's must-read comes from Neil Barofsky, the TARP's special inspector general, in a New York Times op-ed. He guts the... More

Audit Notes: Banks Mislead, The South and Unions, Shareholder Capitalism

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 29, 2011 at 07:58 PM

Adam Levitin of Georgetown Law and Credit Slips calls out the banking lobby for an "incredibly dishonest" attempt to mislead... More

The WSJ Is Excellent On Bad Doctors

Using a Medicare database to find outlying surgeons

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 29, 2011 at 01:41 PM

The Wall Street Journal has been mining a massive Medicare database for an investigative series on Medicare—particularly its costs and... More

NYT Follows Walmart’s Weird OSHA Fight

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 28, 2011 at 02:40 PM

The New York Times reported this weekend that a judge upheld $7,000 fine OSHA levied against Walmart for the trampling... More

WSJ Unmasks Perfidious Goldman

By Felix Salmon   Mar 28, 2011 at 11:36 AM

The WSJ has a great article today about that most fickle and capricious of creatures, the Goldman Sachs investment... More

Audit Notes: Mortgage Industry Conflicts of Interest Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 25, 2011 at 05:11 PM

American Banker has a smart story on "How Not to Make a Mortgage Servicing Settlement," taking a look at the... More

NYT Is Superb On General Electric’s Tax Avoidance

Plus, David Kocieniewski continues his Charlie Rangel exposés

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 25, 2011 at 02:14 PM

(UPDATE: See my follow-up post on GE's poor PR response to the Times's story) The New York Times unloads a... More

Audit Notes: Sunday Papers, Weymouth’s Payday, Ayn Rand

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 24, 2011 at 08:15 PM

Ken Doctor has some interesting thoughts at the Nieman Journalism Lab on why The New York Times's paywall pricing steers... More

Better to Be Skeptical Than Sanguine About Soaring Tech Valuations (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 24, 2011 at 05:42 PM

Henry Blodget's Business Insider runs a column today from a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist arguing that there's no new... More

Harsh Justice for a Wall Street Thief

A thief who stole from Wall Street, of course

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 24, 2011 at 03:25 PM

David Weidner has an excellent column on the unfortunate case of Sergey Aleynikov, better known as the guy who stole... More

Audit Notes: Ma Bell II—Duopoly Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 23, 2011 at 11:51 PM

The Financial Times's John Gapper has an excellent column on why the AT&T's proposed deal for T-Mobile should be shot... More

Some Questions on the Debit-Reform Story

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 23, 2011 at 07:38 PM

It strikes me that this Wall Street Journal story on the banks' "strange bedfellows" opposing debit-card rules probably should have... More

WSJ: Federal Regulator Bares Fangs At Wall Street

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 23, 2011 at 06:11 AM

The Wall Street Journal has a reports this morning that federal regulators are playing smashmouth with Wall Street over their... More

Audit Notes: The Fed and Labor, Revolving Door Watch, Bank Dividends

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 22, 2011 at 08:24 PM

Mike Konczal, aka Rortybomb, has a very interesting post asking questions about the impact of Federal Reserve policies have had... More