The Audit

Access As Distortion Field

Facebook author spins for the company in the Washington Post

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 28, 2010 at 12:23 PM

Fortune's David Kirkpatrick, author of a new book on Facebook, an excerpt of which I criticized a while back for... More

Audit Notes: Why No Charges?, ABC on Collections, SEC Whiff

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 27, 2010 at 08:17 PM

I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure I can argue against this statement, by law prof Peter J. Helling, who... More

A Scalpel We Can Believe In

Obama’s antitrust regime and the proposed Comcast/NBC merger

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 27, 2010 at 06:32 PM

If you want to poke another hole in the idea that the Obama administration is "anti-business" take a look at... More

A Critical Witness in the Wall Street Sausage Factory

Banks used Clayton’s quality-assurance info to make more money, investors be damned

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 27, 2010 at 11:52 AM

Chalk this one up to things I'm not smart enough to understand: Why isn't this pure-D fraud and why hasn't... More

Of Hamsters and Values

Reply to Felix Salmon

By Dean Starkman   Sep 27, 2010 at 11:13 AM

“The Hamster Wheel,” my argument against news organizations’ cranked-up productivity requirements for reporters, generated some nice discussion, including a post... More

Audit Notes: Free Trade Fallout, China’s Peg, Bailout Failure

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 24, 2010 at 06:49 PM

The Financial Times's Washington bureau chief Edward Luce—who if you ask me, is one of the sharpest Washington observers around... More

D’Souza Again; This Time in the Chronicle

Why is the mainstream press giving this guy such a prominent platform?

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 24, 2010 at 04:15 PM

Dinesh D'Souza is at it again. This time he's taken his the-president-is-evil book-touting act on the road—to San Francisco, of... More

Reporting the Economy in Orange County

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 24, 2010 at 09:53 AM

Take a look at some of the things the Orange County Register is doing with its economic reporting. Here's a... More

Audit Notes: Forbes Dissent, MBS Fight, Incestuous CDOs

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 23, 2010 at 07:49 PM

I ripped Forbes last week for putting Dinesh D'Souza's pile of awfulness on the front page of its magazine (and... More

Goldman Loves This WSJ Headline

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 23, 2010 at 12:55 PM

Felix Salmon is all over The Wall Street Journal this morning for splashing this story across four columns atop page... More

The FT Goes Yachting. Meanwhile…

Rolling in the luxury ads for those special sections.

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 22, 2010 at 07:40 PM

There is no denying that 2009 was an annus horribilis for the yacht industry, or that the first half of... More

Arrington and the Journal on Venture Capital

WSJ reports investors say prices are frothy. TechCrunch reports a VC cabal colluding to fix that.

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 22, 2010 at 03:33 PM

The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that venture-capital investors are bidding up the values of Internet startups to... More

The Observer on the Roots of Wall Street’s Obama Rage

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 22, 2010 at 12:51 PM

Max Abelson has a fun story in The New York Observer on the roots of Obama rage on Wall Street.... More

Audit Notes: WSJ Editorial Misleads, That Flack, Respawning

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 21, 2010 at 06:11 PM

The Wall Street Journal editorial page—surprise, surprise!—posts a misleading piece on the anemic recovery (emphasis mine): White House economists and... More

WSJ Misses on Stimulus Red Tape

The spending was supposed to be phased in all along. The real question is why.

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 21, 2010 at 01:32 PM

The Wall Street Journal's A1 story today on how bureacratic red tape has slowed the stimulus has a pretty big... More