The Audit

Audit Notes: Kanjorski?, Top 1 Percent, Geithner vs. Warren

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 16, 2010 at 06:34 PM

Simon Johnson has been beating the drum a bit on something called the Kanjorksi Amendment that made its way into... More

The Goldman Settlement Coverage is Mostly On-Target

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 16, 2010 at 09:39 AM

The press does a pretty good job of handling the SEC's settlement with Goldman Sachs (an Audit funder). It seems... More

Audit Notes: The SEC Lets Goldman Off Easy

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 15, 2010 at 07:25 PM

So Goldman Sachs (an Audit funder) gets off the hook with a $550 million fine and with no apology. But... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Sweetheart Deals, Tax Talk, Commission Coverage

By Holly Yeager   Jul 15, 2010 at 04:54 PM

The Wall Street Journal does well by staying on top of the controversial Countrywide lending program that provided sweet deals... More

What They Don’t Know

The press has work to do on the deficit debate

By Holly Yeager   Jul 15, 2010 at 03:25 PM

With all the buzz about cutting the deficit, the press should be all over the job of explaining how much... More

WSJ on the Lookout for Poor Lending

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 15, 2010 at 02:10 PM

The Wall Street Journal has its ear to the ground for signs of bubble-era lending, and it's come up with... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg Misses, Indiviglio Hits, Shadow Banking

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 14, 2010 at 07:23 PM

Bloomberg puts a strangely positive spin on a Goldman Sachs story, and Felix Salmon calls them out on it. Here's... More

WSJ Tries to Tie Farmers to Bank Reform, Fails

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 14, 2010 at 06:30 PM

The Wall Street Journal blows it big time with a hyped-up page-one story on how the financial-reform bill would affect... More

Anatomy of a Zombie Lie

The AP and the “charging $12.50 to quote five words” meme

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 13, 2010 at 07:14 PM

As I wrote last week, bloggers have repeatedly pumped the story that the AP charges us to quote its stories.... More

Sorkin Types Up Hank Paulson’s Historical Revisionism

The ex-Treasury secretary, Wall Street CEO until mid-2006, gets a free ride

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 13, 2010 at 02:20 PM

Andrew Ross Sorkin lets Hank Paulson spin away this morning in a column about the former Treasury Secretary's thoughts on... More

End of the Line for the 99ers

WaPo highlights the longtime jobless

By Holly Yeager   Jul 13, 2010 at 12:44 PM

The Washington Post does a good job highlighting a detail that usually gets glossed over in coverage of the unemployment... More

Audit Notes: Radical Wolf, BofA Repo, Radical Douthat

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 12, 2010 at 07:28 PM

Martin Wolf says we're not thinking big enough about the real estate crisis. And he's thinking Big indeed, saying that... More

BusinessWeek on BP’s Economic Devastation of the Gulf

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 12, 2010 at 03:41 PM

If it's hard to get your head around an environmental disaster on the scale of BP's Gulf oil spill, it's... More

Audit Notes: The Rich and the Ruthless, Twin Otter, Luskin

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 9, 2010 at 07:48 PM

Holly Yeager dinged The New York Times earlier today for its story on how the rich are defaulting on their... More

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page, Encapsulated

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 9, 2010 at 06:52 PM

Here's just about all you need to know (or quite a bit, anyway) about the Wall Street Journal editorial page,... More