The Audit

JunketSleuth’s FOIA War With the FDIC

Perhaps it’s time for an “openness czar”

By Felix Salmon   Feb 24, 2011 at 11:02 AM

Russell Carollo, of Mark Cuban's JunketSleuth, has a great post up today about the way in which the FDIC aggressively... More

Vulture Funds Exposed in Playboy

By Felix Salmon   Feb 24, 2011 at 07:30 AM

Playboy has long mixed its girlie pics with serious journalism, but it's not always obvious why. Take the December 2010... More

Audit Notes: A Mirror For Scott Walker, SPJ Outraged at Blogger, Foreclosures

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 23, 2011 at 08:07 PM

Steven Pearlstein goes into his columnists' bag of tricks to show how crazy Governor Scott Walker's agenda would be if... More

The SEC, Tangled Up in Madoff

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 23, 2011 at 02:01 PM

How about that Irving Picard? The lawyer trying to recover cash for Bernie Madoff's victims had the nerve to sue... More

The History of Austerity

It’s grim—all the way back to Napoleon

By Felix Salmon   Feb 23, 2011 at 11:25 AM

One of the best aspects of being a journalist is that you get to talk at length to the most... More

A New Twist on the Wisconsin Story With Gin and Tacos

By Felix Salmon   Feb 23, 2011 at 08:53 AM

Ed at Gin and Tacos picked up on a particularly audacious section of the Wisconsin budget-repair bill yesterday: the governor... More

Audit Notes: Watchdog Blogging, Union Power, Stadium Economics

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 22, 2011 at 07:46 PM

The blog Gin and Tacos makes a fantastic catch on Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker's effort to take away the... More

One For the Whistleblowers

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 22, 2011 at 05:38 PM

The government has thrown up its hands and says it can't prosecute Angelo Mozilo, despite the fact that his company... More

LAT’s Hiltzik Dissects An Outsourcing Fiasco

By Felix Salmon   Feb 21, 2011 at 04:08 PM

Michael Hiltzik has a fantastic column on Boeing's outsourcing disasters in the LA Times; it's well worth reading the whole... More

WSJ Helps Keep It Real on Inflation

By Dean Starkman   Feb 18, 2011 at 10:23 AM

Jon Hilsenrath and Justin Lahart do well to pinpoint exactly what we need to worry about in the inflation... More

Business Insider’s Barcelona Junket

By Felix Salmon   Feb 18, 2011 at 08:39 AM

Victoria Barret reports on the nice little deal that Dan Frommer has going on in Barcelona: "Samsung was generous enough... More

Audit Notes: Goldman’s Marks, Taibbi, Dakota Tea, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Feb 17, 2011 at 04:23 PM

I like Bill Cohan's clearly written column explaining how Goldman marked its mortgage assets lower than everyone else, then... More

The NYT’s Smart Take on Valuing Life

By Felix Salmon   Feb 17, 2011 at 01:59 PM

I love Binya Appelbaum’s NYT article on the various different values of a human life which are used by government... More

What Dimon, Cutler Knew About Madoff

By Dean Starkman   Feb 17, 2011 at 10:51 AM

The WSJ has a piece this morning advancing our knowledge about what Jamie Dimon knew about the Madoff fraud.... More

Madoff’s Maddening Jailhouse Interview

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 16, 2011 at 12:16 PM

Diana Henriques has a huge get for The New York Times this morning: The first interview of Bernie Madoff since... More