The Audit

NYT Digs Further Into the AIG Backdoor Bailout

Regulatory capture doesn’t begin to describe what went on here

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 30, 2010 at 01:57 PM

Just when you thought the AIG/Goldman Sachs backdoor bailout scandal couldn't smell any fishier, The New York Times wades through... More

How to Cover the Recession

A new Pew study provides good clues

By Holly Yeager   Jun 30, 2010 at 01:41 PM

The unemployment crisis has dragged on and on, but reporting about its real-life effects just hasn’t kept up. Hopefully the... More

Audit Notes: Board Pay, the Hubris of Big Business, Taibbi vs. Logan

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 29, 2010 at 08:53 PM

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has an excellent investigation into board pay at public companies in Wisconsin. While compensation for chief executive... More

Depressing Days

Time to look at the effects of Washington’s false unemployment/deficit choice

By Holly Yeager   Jun 29, 2010 at 01:29 PM

With Washington still unable to get its act together on a new round of stimulus spending, warnings about the consequences... More

BizWeek: BP Has Us Over a Barrel

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 29, 2010 at 09:22 AM

We've been on the watch for BP's PR line, and it's been popping up at an alarming rate in the... More

Audit Notes: WSJ iPad, Bled Dry, Grease Up the Revolving Doors!

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 28, 2010 at 08:22 PM

The Wall Street Journal's iPad revenues are less than it led us to believe. Business Insider prints an internal memo... More

More on Boycotting BP from the LAT

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 28, 2010 at 08:02 PM

The Los Angeles Times gets in on the boycotting-BP-just-hurts-small-businesspeople meme. It's better than some of the other stories we've seen... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Austerian Origins, G-20 Loses Its Grip, Gaping Income Gap

By Holly Yeager   Jun 28, 2010 at 03:43 PM

“Austerians” has started popping up all over, and Barry Ritholtz does a nice job of tracking the origin of the... More

Rolling Stone and the MSM Copyright Thieves

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 28, 2010 at 10:51 AM

It's good to see David Carr take Politico and Time to task for their egregious violations of copyright (not to... More

Audit Notes: Reform Report Card, Bhopal vs. BP, “Power Problem”

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 25, 2010 at 05:37 PM

Barry Ritholtz's very helpful report card on financial reform. Up top, he gives the bill a big fat "F" on... More

Covering the “Historic” Financial Reform Bill

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 25, 2010 at 12:36 PM

You're going to read a lot about how the financial-reform bill agreed to by Congress this morning is "historic" and... More

Audit Notes: Paper It Over, Katrina Whistleblowers, Google Ad Fun,

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 24, 2010 at 07:54 PM

The Wall Street Journal's David Wessel flat-out says "Congress is planting the seeds of the next big bank bailout." He's... More

Marshall Island “Regulators”—What Could Go Wrong?

Tribune explores how Transocean flagged Deepwater Horizon in the tiny Pacific nation

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 24, 2010 at 05:55 PM

Let's circle back around to last week's excellent Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune report on the Deepwater Horizon. Did... More

Congress Gives Defense Spending a Look

Will the press do the same?

By Holly Yeager   Jun 24, 2010 at 03:49 PM

The Hill is good to notice a small but potentially significant change in lawmakers’ attitudes toward Pentagon spending: a “growing... More

Weil on How the Government Shields Fraudsters

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 24, 2010 at 10:52 AM

Did you know you can't sue somebody if they help cheat you out of money via securities fraud? I didn't.... More