The Audit

Michael Kinsley Takes Issue with an Audit Criticism

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 6, 2010 at 04:42 PM

Michael Kinsley writes to say I missed the point of his column asking "Are we poorer than we used to... More

Crain’s Calls Out the Bank of New York

By Felix Salmon   Dec 6, 2010 at 12:55 PM

With Peter Eavis having left the WSJ, who will join Jonathan Weil and David Reilly in taking on the job... More

A Credulous NYT Piece on Dimon

By Felix Salmon   Dec 6, 2010 at 08:31 AM

I'm not a huge fan of Roger Lowenstein's NYT Magazine piece on Jamie Dimon, which comes complete with a positively... More

The Second-Day Fed Bailouts Coverage

From good to okay to non-existent

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 3, 2010 at 07:31 PM

And just like that, the Federal Reserve bailout story disappears from the pages of The Wall Street Journal. There's not... More

Business Insider and Financial Press Sensationalism

Henry Blodget & Co. stroke the id of the Internet

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 3, 2010 at 12:37 PM

What business press readers always lacked but never really needed was a tabloid sensationalist to hype up mundane markets and... More

The NYT and the Urgency of the Unemployment Crisis

By Felix Salmon   Dec 3, 2010 at 11:02 AM

The unemployment rate has long been called Obama's Katrina, but at this point it's clear that it's much worse than... More

Audit Notes: Too Big to Fail Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 3, 2010 at 12:36 AM

Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig has a must-read op-ed in The New York Times on why too big to... More

Inured to “Trillions”

Take a step back on the Federal Reserve bailout story

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 2, 2010 at 07:19 PM

The Federal Reserve is forced by Congress to reveal who it secretly bailed out with trillions of dollars in loans.... More

Reporting Anonymous Tweets

Don’t do it.

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 2, 2010 at 05:20 PM

I've written before about how press standards tend to go wobbly when it comes to Apple gossip. Here's a prime... More

Bernanke’s Stimulus Call Finally Makes The WSJ

Two weeks later.

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 2, 2010 at 11:46 AM

A couple of weeks ago, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke issued a public call for Congress and the president to... More

Audit Notes: The Federal Reserve’s Trillion-Dollar Bailout Document Dump

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 1, 2010 at 08:42 PM

The Federal Reserve today released a trove of information, much of which was sought by Bloomberg's Mark Pittman lawsuit, on... More

The Overdraft Racket Continues

But reports differ on how many consumers have opted in to the fees

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 1, 2010 at 01:32 PM

Back when the Federal Reserve adopted rules forcing banks to make customers opt in to overdraft "protection," it looked like... More

Audit Notes: Others on the Business Press

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 1, 2010 at 12:19 AM

If you haven't read John Cassidy's piece in The New Yorker asking "What Good Is Wall Street?", get to it.... More

Yes, We Are Much Poorer Than in 2007

Michael Kinsley flubs the numbers and the argument in a Politico column

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 30, 2010 at 08:19 PM

Boy, how out of touch is this Michael Kinsley column asking "Are we poorer than we used to be?" Kinsley... More

The Prosaic Mosaic Theory

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 30, 2010 at 12:25 PM

The New York Times is trying to play catchup with The Wall Street Journal, which has dominated the hedge-fund investigation... More