The Audit

Audit Notes: Politico’s Goldman PR, ProPublica Vindicated, Mark to Myth

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 28, 2011 at 06:06 PM

The Huffington Post's Peter S. Goodman points to a bizarre report in Politico this morning: Much was made of a... More

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission FAIL

Mostly lackluster coverage of a lackluster report

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 28, 2011 at 01:35 PM

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released its report yesterday and the press play indicates that it's either an utter failure... More

Audit Notes: Baffled Wall Street Historians, Too Much Demand, Deficits to Shrink

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 27, 2011 at 09:28 PM

Here's your Quote of the Day, from The New York Times's story on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission report. Wall... More

Fact Checking the Fact Checkers

PolitiFact is half right on two State of the Union truth-o-meters

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 27, 2011 at 11:08 AM

Commenter James asked me to take a look at a couple of verdicts from PolitiFact on the State of the... More

The NYT Melts the Right’s Anti-Labor Snow Job

All but wiping out propaganda about sanitation workers’ supposed slowdown

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 26, 2011 at 07:20 PM

The New York Times unloads a devastating story about the alleged New York City snowplow slowdown that became a big... More

The Times’s Fluffy Coverage of the State of the Union

A poor show that amplifies Obama’s public-relations spiel

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 26, 2011 at 11:47 AM

Did The New York Times really need to lead its page one with a two-column, three-line headline about a pedestrian... More

Audit Notes: FCIC Report, Reuters Talking Points, WSJ Sues

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 25, 2011 at 08:07 PM

The New York Times gets hold of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission report first and it seems somewhat promising. Here's... More

Ezra Klein’s Flawed Assumptions on Trade With China

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 25, 2011 at 07:11 PM

Ezra Klein accepts some unfortunate assumptions in his Washington Post column on trade yesterday morning. Let's start with this one:... More

Insurer Alleges Fraud by Bear Stearns and JPMorgan

Selling a “sack of shit” and then demanding money back while denying investors theirs

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 25, 2011 at 11:49 AM

Bloomberg News has a story of the day, reporting that JPMorgan Chase/Bear Stearns is being sued by the insurance company... More

Audit Notes: Crisis Panel Has Teeth?, Mortgage Fraud, Corporate Size

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 24, 2011 at 08:44 PM

Shahien Nasiripour of The Huffington Post scoops that the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission may just have some impact after all:... More

Resistance Is Futile for Alabama’s White Collar Criminals

The Journal takes an excellent look at tough state regulator Joseph Borg

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 24, 2011 at 01:36 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a superb Money & Investing profile this morning of an Alabama securities regulator who makes... More

Don’t Forget Massey Energy’s Long History of Violations

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 21, 2011 at 08:54 PM

Federal investigators' preliminary report is out on the April coal mine explosion that killed 29 West Virginia miners. Was it... More

Pearlstein: On China Trade, an Eye for an Eye

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 21, 2011 at 12:09 PM

Of all the commentary this week on China, none got to the heart of the problem anywhere near as well... More

The NYT Throws Gasoline on the State-Bankruptcy Flames

By Felix Salmon   Jan 21, 2011 at 11:28 AM

Talk of introducing legislation allowing states to declare bankruptcy began in earnest in November. A speech by Newt Gingrich was... More

Inc.’s Excellent Story on Entrepreneurship in Norway

By Felix Salmon   Jan 20, 2011 at 01:18 PM

Max Chafkin has a fantastic story in Inc magazine about how to structure an economy so as to encourage entrepreneurship,... More