This Old Auditor: Complete Series Index

This Old Auditor runs in series. Three have been published so far, nineteen parts in all, each applying the same audit discipline to a different part of the public record. This page indexes every one of them, with the finding stated and a stable handle for citation.

How to cite. Each piece carries a handle in the form TOA-A.0. Cite as: Barrett, Thom. “Title.” This Old Auditor, The Quiet Collapse, date, followed by the link. The handle is stable even if a title changes.

Series A — AI Systems Operating Without Federal Oversight

June to August 2026. Seven parts. Seven named AI systems making decisions about healthcare, hiring, credit and supply chains, examined against four audit questions, with the executive action that cleared the path for each.

TOA-A.0 — Part Zero: What I’ve Been Looking At — 12 June 2026. Seven AI systems across five sectors answer no to all four audit questions, and five executive orders in eleven months removed every mechanism that might have required otherwise.

TOA-A.1 — Part One: The Recovery Room — 7 July 2026. A man, the computer program that went against his doctors, the rules that allowed it, and the money behind it.

TOA-A.2 — Part Two: The Listening Room — 9 July 2026. What happens when the AI in your doctor’s office decides what gets written down.

TOA-A.3 — Part Three: The Hiring Room — 14 July 2026. Rejected from over 100 jobs by a system that never let a human see his name.

TOA-A.4 — Part Four: The Cash Machine — 21 July 2026. The bank that blocked his card in Buenos Aires missed the thief who drained his account a month later.

TOA-A.5 — Part Five: The Lending Room — 28 July 2026. An AI lending model still running on economic conditions that no longer exist.

TOA-A.6 — Part Six: The Room Where Your Senator Isn’t — 4 August 2026. Form letters, silence, and tracking numbers from addresses that never reply.

Series B — Private Money in American Healthcare

August to September 2026. Seven parts. Private funds have grown past the public markets anyone can see, and have been buying the parts of healthcare a patient cannot walk away from.

TOA-B.0 — Part Zero: The Map — 11 August 2026. Private funds now dwarf the public markets everyone can see, and they are buying the rooms you cannot walk away from.

TOA-B.1 — Part One: The Room With a Trapdoor in It — 18 August 2026. A rule built to cap what insurers keep for themselves, and the loophole hiding inside its own math.

TOA-B.2 — Part Two: The Audit That Was Built Not to Bite — 25 August 2026. Congress found $84 billion a year in overpayments. Its own recovery tool has clawed back $1.5 billion, total.

TOA-B.3 — Part Three: The Room Where the Audit Only Runs One Direction — 1 September 2026. Congress passes fraud bills 393 to 0. The eighty-billion-dollar version of fraud gets no hearing at all.

TOA-B.4 — Part Four: The Room Where the Measure Ate Itself — 8 September 2026. A federal agency built a metric to force organ procurement organizations to save more lives, and within a year they had found what the metric did not count.

TOA-B.5 — Part Five: The Room With No Reserves — 15 September 2026. Prospect promised $7.5 million per malpractice claim. When patients came to collect, the reserve behind that promise was already gone.

TOA-B.6 — Part Six: The Same Room, Every Time — 22 September 2026. Six pieces. Four mechanisms. One architecture, and the two things missing from all of them at once.

Series C — Public Lands and What the Public Earns From Them

September to October 2026. Five parts, continuing. The largest asset the American public owns, and the books that do not add it up.

TOA-C.0 — Part Zero: What I’ve Been Looking At — 29 September 2026. The largest asset the American public owns is about to be reported in acres, with no dollar value at all.

TOA-C.1 — Part One: The Books — 6 October 2026. Nevada Gold Mines pulled 757,000 ounces of gold off federal ground last quarter. The public’s royalty on it: zero.

TOA-C.2 — Part Two: The Ledger That Does Not Tie — 13 October 2026. Value leaves the public’s land through sixteen separate doors. Not one document anywhere adds them up.

TOA-C.3 — Part Three: The Money That Was Collected — 20 October 2026. Interior’s own books show $49 billion sitting in fund balances, never spent on the purpose Congress set it aside for.

TOA-C.4 — Part Four: Who Holds It — 27 October 2026. The national database for federal oil and gas leases has no field for who holds them.

This index was compiled with the assistance of Claude, an AI assistant made by Anthropic. The writing it indexes is the author’s own.