The Audit

Audit Notes: The Too Big to Fail Get Bigger, News Corp. Scandal, FT on Fire

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 19, 2011 at 09:56 PM

The Huffington Post reports that the Obama administration, far from splitting up the too-big-to-fail banks, will allow them to get... More

DealBook Leaves Out the Links in Its Goldman Story

By Felix Salmon   Jan 19, 2011 at 05:31 PM

DealBook and Footnoted—the very epitome of professional financial blogs—have collaborated in a big investigation of Goldman Sachs's regulatory filings and... More

Yet Again, Fannie and Freddie Didn’t Do It

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Michael Hudson writes one of the most convincing Fannie and Freddie Didn't Do It pieces yet. Actually, my soundbite isn't... More

Adventures in Markets Reporting

By Felix Salmon   Jan 19, 2011 at 10:12 AM

European stocks went up today, and European bonds went down. That happens, sometimes. But there was lots of news floating... More

Audit Notes: Bad Times with FINRA, Apple, and Co-bylines

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 18, 2011 at 08:58 PM

The New York Times's DealBook drops a beat sweetener profiling the new head of FINRA, that toothless in-house regulator of... More

The Dead Source Who Keeps on Giving

Fortune joins the WSJ in putting Jerome York on the record after his death

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 18, 2011 at 06:53 PM

Back in March, I noticed The Wall Street Journal appearing to burn an off-the-record source a few days after he... More

The Euro-Default Drumbeat Loudens

By Felix Salmon   Jan 18, 2011 at 11:43 AM

The drumbeat for debt restructurings on Europe's periphery is becoming too loud to ignore. The Economist has now come out... More

The NYT Tosses Off a Paywall Story

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 18, 2011 at 11:10 AM

The New York Times has a brief report today raising hopes about the prospects of a pay model for newspapers.... More

Audit Notes: Beer Buys Off the ‘Burg?, Apple As Bully, Bank Propaganda

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 14, 2011 at 09:09 PM

This New York Times story, which reports that residents of Brooklyn's Williamsburg protested a Duane Reade chain store coming into... More

The Groupon Bubble

NYT reports Wall Street pitching a $15 billion to $20 billion debut

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM

If you doubted, even after Facebook's recent $50 billion valuation, that there's a mini-bubble inflating in tech land, this morning's... More

Audit Notes: Financial Capture, Homeless, Amy Chua Criticizes WSJ

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 13, 2011 at 08:09 PM

Simon Johnson notes something big that Goldman Sachs dances around in its report on its internal culture released this week... More

Remapping the Debate on China’s Industrial Policy

Our rival has one. Where’s ours?

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 13, 2011 at 04:27 PM

Remapping Debate has an interesting piece on how the U.S. finds itself at the mercy of the Chinese for a... More

Audit Notes: Mortgage Servicers, Ghost Mall—China Style; The Joneses

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 13, 2011 at 11:53 AM

Andy Kroll of Mother Jones takes a look (UPDATE: took a look, I should say. This story is from a... More

The SEC’s Khuzami and That Citigroup Settlement

An anonymous letter adds to questions about a wrist slap

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 12, 2011 at 01:19 PM

Bloomberg News reported on Monday that the SEC's inspector general is investigating Robert Khuzami, its chief enforcement official, after getting... More

WSJ Spotlights Wage Declines of the Laid Off

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 11, 2011 at 08:41 PM

The Wall Street Journal is excellent today with this front-page examination of what the recession is doing to wages of... More