The Audit

Audit Notes: Overdraft Profiteering, Why the Complacency, ExecuLie Detector

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 11, 2010 at 07:09 PM

The Associated Press reports that a federal judge has slammed too-big-to-fail bank Wells Fargo for "gouging and profiteering" via overdrafts.... More

WSJ Privacy Series Raises Questions on Google’s Power

The bedrock principles of the Googleplex were built on sand, after all

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 11, 2010 at 04:25 PM

A lot of times you see these multipart newspaper series bring diminishing returns after the first day or two. Not... More

Audit Notes: Credit Due, MoJo Impact, Audit on the Radio

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 10, 2010 at 10:16 PM

In June, when I announced that Dean Starkman's "Power Problem" article had snagged a National Press Club award, I neglected... More

The Journal’s Op-Ed Page In Fine Form

A misleading column blames the government for what it costs to employ a worker

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 10, 2010 at 02:27 PM

The Wall Street Journal editorial page is like the proverbial fish in a barrel. If I ever lack material to... More

NYT: Merrill’s CDO Self Dealing Kept the Bubble Going

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 10, 2010 at 11:42 AM

The late Mark Pittman told me this a year and a half ago about the fraud at the heart of... More

Audit Notes: Poor Employers, Unions Matter, SEC Claws

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 10, 2010 at 02:42 AM

Are employers really having a tough time finding people to hire in this economy? The New York Times claimed that... More

The Economist’s Success Is Not a Marketing Story

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 9, 2010 at 11:17 AM

It's a miserable time for the press, so it's somewhat annoying to see The New York Times's take this morning... More

Forbes.com Gets a New Slant

Lewis Dvorkin’s bloggy overhaul of the Internet continues

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 6, 2010 at 10:49 AM

On Thursday, Forbes.com launched a new blog page utilizing the platform first developed by the blog network True/Slant, which it... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Going Against the Meme, Mortgage Madness, Summer Reading

By Holly Yeager   Aug 5, 2010 at 02:30 PM

Christopher Beam does a nice job at Slate, throwing cold water on the anti-incumbency meme that’s been dominating election coverage.... More

Audit Notes: Spruced Up Reform, HAMP Failure, Cramdown

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 5, 2010 at 02:06 PM

David Weidner nails it with a piece on financial reform. I'm glad someone else agrees with me on this: Financial... More

Audit Notes: What They Know, Taleb and Blinder, No FDR

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 4, 2010 at 08:40 PM

The Wall Street Journal prints the third installment to its excellent What They Know series, this one on how data... More

The Newsweek Numbers

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 4, 2010 at 07:55 PM

If you want to see why the business model of the so-called legacy media is screwed, look no further than... More

MoJo Muckrakes the Foreclosure Sweatshops

The old predatory lending practices now used to take from homeowners

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 4, 2010 at 02:42 PM

Mother Jones has the must-read of the week: A superb investigation by Andy Kroll into one of the nation's biggest... More

Audit D.C. Notes: State Stats, Jobs Plan, Card Clues

By Holly Yeager   Aug 4, 2010 at 02:40 PM

USA Today does good work with its own state-by-state analysis of the stimulus program and the relationship between state unemployment... More

Audit Notes: KKR Tax Avoidance, Manufacturing Politics, Freelancing

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 3, 2010 at 08:51 PM

Fortune's Allan Sloan has a good column this week examining how Henry Kravis of KKR and others in the private-equity... More