The Dig Newsletter

The Dig Newsletter

Are you looking for exclusive insights and original research on some of the most popular and heavily shorted companies globally? Look no further than The Dig, a new online newsletter created by independent investigative journalist Francine McKenna.

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  • 1 day ago | thedig.substack.com | Francine McKenna

    Oh what a tangled web we weaveWhen first we practice to deceive. Sir Walter Scott (Marmion, 1808)What's been happening with PCAOB? I thought the PCAOB board members would have almost all been fired by now. Grab bag: Stories about the PCAOB, BDO and AmTrust, Microsoft-Activision, Theranos Dos, Ripple, BRK, and SkechersHowever, SEC Chair Paul Atkins may be gathering his strength, especially as it looks like there is trouble in “Big Beautiful Bill” paradise? Maybe a Friday Night Dump?

  • 6 days ago | thedig.substack.com | Francine McKenna

    I have a hard time resisting the urge to recommend books to others. In some cases I have multiple copies so I can lend one out without missing the presence of the book on my shelves. I pulled some books off my shelves to kick off the summer, today June 1. I know officially summer does not start until the 21st, but this morning it just felt like summer when Bubbles and I went out for our coffee. The Dig is a reader-supported publication.

  • 1 week ago | thedig.substack.com | Francine McKenna

    Bill Cohan is friends with everyone. His long career as a journalist, author, and banker has earned him those benefits. I am happy to have made his acquaintance back in the financial crisis era. He was kind enough to speak to my Wharton students back in 2022 about his career as his GE book, Power Failure, was coming out.

  • 2 weeks ago | thedig.substack.com | Francine McKenna

    Nothing's right, I'm torn. I'm all out of faith. This is how I feel… Torn, Natalie ImbrugliaToday is an all KPMG day. Originally I was going to write exclusively about Skechers, exclusively for paid subscribers. Grab bag: Stories about the PCAOB, BDO and AmTrust, Microsoft-Activision, Theranos Dos, Ripple, BRK, and SkechersTwo more stories that are KPMG adjacent popped up in the meantime, so I decided to throw it all together.

  • 3 weeks ago | thedig.substack.com | Francine McKenna

    Then you know as well as I, how good it is to travel. Like a free spirit. Unfettered by position or possession. Orlando. Virginia WoolfThe future of the PCAOBLots of discussion around the inclusion by the House Financial Services Committee of a provision in the 2025 budget reconciliation bill to fold the PCAOB into the SEC. The provision would essentially, effectively, by design and default, abolish the PCAOB by reassigning its functions to the now stripped-down SEC.

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