The Audit

More on Second Liens

By Felix Salmon   Mar 22, 2011 at 02:46 PM

I had a long conversation with Jesse Eisinger on the subject of second liens and the proposed mortgage settlement... More

AT&T’s Cellphone Industry Rollup Gets Second-Day Scrutiny

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 22, 2011 at 01:28 PM

The business press continues to be skeptical in its second-day coverage of AT&T's $39 billion deal for T-Mobile. That's a... More

Good Consolidation Coverage for a Change on AT&T Deal

The business press is skeptical of creating a duopoly in cell phone service

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 21, 2011 at 07:41 PM

Fortune's Seth Weintraub pulls a four-year-old Stephen Colbert clip that's as good a place as any to kick off a... More

Supremes Rule for Bloomberg Over the Banks

A big press win as Mark Pittman’s lawsuit pries bailout records from the Federal Reserve

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 21, 2011 at 11:45 AM

Chalk one up for the people's right to know over the bank arm of the government's right to spend our... More

Bloomberg Keeps Its Documents to Itself

By Felix Salmon   Mar 18, 2011 at 04:33 PM

Caleb Newquist has a great post up at Going Concern showing how important it is for news organizations to publish... More

ProPublica and NYT Are Confusing On Second Liens (UPDATED)

By Felix Salmon   Mar 17, 2011 at 05:11 PM

Jesse Eisinger has a conspiracy theory about the way that second liens are treated in the proposed mortgage settlement: The... More

The New York Times Paywall Looks Good

Leaky enough to preserve traffic and ads, but strong enough to add incremental revenue

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 17, 2011 at 12:32 PM

The New York Times paywall is here, and it's about time. Don't ask me why it took so long and... More

The Journal Shines a Light on Modern Debtors’ Prisons

The paper finds creditors, including folks like AIG, getting thousands thrown in jail

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 17, 2011 at 11:30 AM

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent story today reporting on the country's modern-day debtors' prisons, which I'd thought were... More

The Libor Lag

Why are investigators only now looking into things that happened three and four years ago?

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 16, 2011 at 07:12 PM

The business papers all report news that the Department of Justice, SEC, and Commodities Futures Trading Commission (and apparently other... More

Gingrich’s Disingenuous Journal Op-Ed

Misleading on Obama, the Bush tax cuts, and the economy

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 16, 2011 at 05:33 AM

Newt Gingrich is no doubt a smart man. So he surely knows better than to write what he and his... More

Audit Notes: Two Economies, Red-Handed Raj, Life at SXSW

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 15, 2011 at 08:30 PM

Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post comments on a new study out from an NYU prof that shows how globalization... More

As the Revolving Door Turns

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 15, 2011 at 02:44 PM

The Wall Street Journal reports today that the head of the Federal Housing Administration, David H. Stevens, will become CEO... More

Audit Notes: When a Loss Isn’t a Loss, Lehman, WSJ on Nukes

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 15, 2011 at 01:01 AM

You're going to hear a lot about all the "losses" insurers are going to be taking on the catastrophe in... More

Breakingviews Misses on the Fed’s Debit Card Rules

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 14, 2011 at 07:20 PM

The banking lobby is pushing back bigtime against the Federal Reserve rules that would force it to stop gouging consumers... More

Watchdogs Eye the AG’s Foreclosure Fraud Settlement

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 14, 2011 at 02:41 PM

Gretchen Morgenson yesterday criticized the states attorneys general for their proposed foreclosure fraud settlement, writing that it's a slapdash rush... More