The Audit

Fortune With a Stellar Probe into J&J

By Dean Starkman   Aug 26, 2010 at 10:47 AM

Now playing in Fortune, a honey of a probe into pharma icon Johnson & Johnson. Written by Mina Kimes, it... More

Audit Notes: WSJ on FASB; More on Auditors; the Demand Side, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Aug 25, 2010 at 06:45 PM

—I'd like to know more about the rushed retirement of the chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which The... More

Bloggers at the Treasury

By Dean Starkman   Aug 25, 2010 at 02:32 PM

Last week, small groups of bloggers were ushered into the Treasury Department for quasi-off-the-record meetings with Tim Geithner and other... More

Audit Notes: Pittman Suit Advances, FT’s nifty banking graphic, Shareholder Activists Gain, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Aug 24, 2010 at 06:30 PM

—The full federal appeals court in New York refused to reconsider a lower court ruling ordering the Fed's board of... More

Tug of War at the Fed

Journal pulls back the curtain

By Holly Yeager   Aug 24, 2010 at 12:52 PM

The Wall Street Journal does good work today with a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the August 10 meeting of the... More

In an SEC Filing Against Countrywide, a Press Win

By Dean Starkman   Aug 24, 2010 at 10:17 AM

The Wall Street Journal this morning reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission has now explicitly alleged what that newspaper... More

Audit D.C. Notes: The End of the Affair, Stimulus Situation, Cantor on the Trail

By Holly Yeager   Aug 23, 2010 at 05:06 PM

The August lull is giving The New York Times a chance to point out just how much our economic lives... More

Audit Notes: High Priests, Feed the Meter, Correlation and Causation, Etc.

By Dean Starkman   Aug 23, 2010 at 03:10 PM

—Chrystia Freeland ruminates on business journalism's image problem in the Times Book Review, and argues against the good-guys-vs.-bad-guys construction of... More

Mortgage Fraud Still Tiny

By Dean Starkman   Aug 23, 2010 at 12:34 PM

No matter what The Wall Street Journal says. Not to make too much of this. It's the summer doldrums, after... More

A Local Look at Small Business and Hard Money

Over the transom from the Audit/SABEW local business-press initiative

By Dean Starkman   Aug 23, 2010 at 09:50 AM

As some Audit readers know, we’ve started a push with the Society of American Business Editors and Writers to try... More

Audit Notes: Goldman and Geithner, Meaningless WSJ Numbers, Freeland

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 20, 2010 at 06:59 PM

The New York Times runs a pretty amusing story on Tim Geithner's Goldman past—you know, the one he never had.... More

Bill O’Reilly’s Stock Tips

Probably not a good idea

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 20, 2010 at 01:04 PM

Kathy Kristof nails Bill O'Reilly for lending his mug and voice to a cockamamie investment newsletter touted by right-wing news... More

Today in Let Them Eat Cake

The Times and the Journal on what the out-of-touch super-rich are up to

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 19, 2010 at 06:32 PM

What critically important new trends are sweeping the overclass now in our angry, unemployed, bankrupt, two-war country? The New York... More

The Too-Modest Times

A super investigation results in unheard-of fraud charges against the state of New Jersey

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 19, 2010 at 01:34 PM

Sometimes newspapers are just too modest. Like The New York Times today. The SEC sued New Jersey for fraud for... More

Audit Notes: Unemployment and Suicide, China Trade, Greece Simmers

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 18, 2010 at 09:22 PM

Annie Lowrey has a must-read story in The Washington Independent on unemployment and suicide. She digs up some stories of... More