Other than Calculated Risk, where else to go for information?
BTW- Reducing the number of front pages posts displaying at a time- if I lower it to five is that too low? Or would ten be better? Fifteen was what it was at. Trying to see if that increases load times.
Dan
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com
Sasha
Eight to ten would be better. Try to keep a little more than one day’s posts on the front page.
S
The Market Ticker
Naked Capitalism
Long or Short Capital
BombIranForChrist
I like The Big Picture because he often includes big, purty pictures that I can actually understand.
Calculated Risk is surely great, but I am too dumb for it.
Angry Engineer
Another vote here for The Big Picture.
BombIranForChrist
Erm, link for Big Picture.
red plaid
The Big Picture:
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/
Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis:
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/
Naked Capitalism (I second Dan’s recommendation):
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
Randy H
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/
The Grand Panjandrum
I’m not sure how many to keep on front page.
Boy, oh, boy did you read Erickson’s post about throwing in the towel on McCain winning? Whew!
I read Robert Reich but he doesn’t post regularly. One smart fucker even if you don’t agree with him.
slaney black
Mogambo Guru!!!!!
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Writers/MogamboGuru.html
Laura K
I have to second the recommendation for Robert Reich. He doesn’t post on every financial matter under the sun, or every event in the financial news, but I always learn something when he does.
PeakVT
Calculated Risk
Big Picture
Beat the Press
Conscience of a Liberal
Naked Capitalism
Roubini
Perry Como
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/
Mish has been warning about this clusterfuck for a while.
And The Mogambo Guru is fucking hilarious.
MrSnrub
NPR has a great brand new daily podcast called Planet Money. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
I like to read Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis (he and his followers are not liberal, more libertarian, but the financial info is good).
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
I also receive newsletters from Money and Markets (Weiss Research).
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
Five is fine for me.
Sasha – eight to ten is not a single day anymore. ;)
The Populist
bonddad.blogspot.com
mrmortgage.ml-implode.com
housingpanic.blogspot.com
bankimplode.com
patrick.net
blownmortgage.com
and for laughs the kid who is a poster boy for all this mess:
http://www.truecasey.com (kid buys 8 homes in months and is foreclosed upon).
Perry Como
Nikkei is crashing.
Comrade This One
I also usually check out Ilargi at Automatic Earth. There is a daily posting now looking at/analyzing the previous day’s chapter of the nightmare, and then a wrap-up of the various news stories with the details of that chapter. He is highly opinionated, but has been spot on since I’ve been reading him (not long), and is an entertaining writer.
gbear
5 may too low.
10 is very generous.
7 is considered lucky, although
8 is lucky in China though:
In Chinese communities around the world, eight is considered the most fortuitous of numbers, making it much coveted for addresses, phone numbers and bank accounts.
If you’re Chinese, an eight not only portends prosperity but confidence and money worth even millions, depending where you are.
"In Hong Kong, a personal license plate with the number eight can cost millions of dollars," says Alhambra, California developer Raymond Cheng, who was born and reared in the [former] British colony. "A single eight on your license plate gives you status. People know you have to pay top dollars for it."
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
CNN is getting ready to report that Asian stocks are plummeting (breaking news, but after commercial)
Comrade Peter J
Five might be too low. Any chance that the list on the left with recent post headlines will return? If the list returns then a lower number of front page posts would be ok.
Suicidal Zebra
The Nikkei-225 opens down 10.8%. Ouchie.
p.a.
angrybear is a group blog, so therefore wide-ranging and chaotic in a fun way, and has a very nice blogroll.
Punchy
10 % down in Japan? I am going to throw up. That portends another huge Dow drop 2morrow. Mah parents r gunna b fuked….
crayz
WordPress should be able to cache the data on the page so that it really barely matters how many posts are on the front page. You should use a benchmarking software like Apache’s ab to test that theory out
You need any help with this web stuff?
Perry Como
Circuit breakers tripped and Osaka futures have been halted. That didn’t take long.
nadezhda
I second nakedcapitalism and Big Picture for excellent posts throughout the day (and sometimes night). Also agree that Dean Baker and Robert Reich are good, but they are less frequent and more policy-oriented posters.
Different strokes for different folks, but here are some blogs you might want to check out that produce stuff relevant to the current crisis. Lots of variety, so it depends on your background and specific interests.
Krugman’s blog is a must on the practical and political angles of policy as well as economics-made-easy in 3 paragraphs or less. He’s been ahead of everybody in this crisis. Certainly has demonstrated he deserves a big role come Jan 2009 (cross fingers).
Felix Salmon at Portfolio.com is excellent on the intersection of market behavior and policy, regs, what the Fed does etc.
Justin Fox at Time’s Curious Capitalist is also excellent at following the markets, policy initiatives, and explaining things.
Henry Blodgett has just launched ClusterStock which is more market and heard-on-the-street focused. IIRC, the lead blogger from NYT’s Dealbook just joined Blodgett.
For a one-stop shop for well-selected economics/policy posts, Mark Thoma stays on top of the economics blogosphere at Economists View, often with his own commentary added.
Brad DeLong has an interesting mix of his own commentary and copies of posts and articles from around the web at his aggregation site.
Brad Setser — Follow the Money is simply the best on foreign exchange, international balances, central banks and China, China, China. He now blogs at Council on Foreign Relations — used to blog with Roubini.
And Tyler Cowen always has pertinent observations.
Biggish media blogs that are particularly relevant to the current mess include:
Slate has just launched a new econ-finance site, The Big Money. I’m not much of a Slate fan generally, but their regular econ journalist, Daniel Gross, is always interesting at Slate’s Moneybox. Frex, his recent take-down of the "it’s all the fault and poor blacks and Fannie and Freddie" is terrific.
The Economist has Free Exchange.
WSJ has Real Time Economics.
BBC has Paul Mason’s Idle Scrawl.
And the NYT includes Floyd Norris and Economix.
Idiosyncratic but often very good stuff can be found at
Angry Bear
Interfluidity — occasional, wonderfully insightful essays by Steve Randy Waldman
Abnormal Returns is a very handy daily link roundup.
comrade sparky
i will flaunt my techo-ignorance here and say the place loads much more quickly with text than with vid, but that may be flashgot or somesuch thingy. or my $%^%$$#@! airport card. so i am in favor of not too many on one page.
in addition to the above,
i recommend the blogroll at calculated risk–a good roundup
Krugman’s blog at the NYT, though i never do the assigned homework;
Econbrowser
Safe Haven has a collection of Daily-Reckoning-type folks (goldish/libertarian/technical)
Edge is doing something on behavioural econ but I haven’t looked at it yet.
i think Roubini, over all, does the best job of explaining to us of the laity, though we really need is a Robert Caro of finance (paging Michael Thomas?)
i will also put in a plug for my favorite small investigative blog, Eye on Miami, which goes into great detail examining "interesting" South Florida real estate transactions and their (ahem) relationship to local government. i think it’s what used to be called legwork once upon a time.
gerry
Just please don’t ruin your site like TBogg did.
Bill Arnold
http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/ (Mike Volpe) often writes about financial stuff. He’s conservative but relatively sane and not instinctively doctrinaire, sometimes taking on wingnut fantasies like the blaming of the subprime crisis on the CRA.
A good bridge to wingnuttia, that won’t drive you to drill holes in your head with an electric drill.
Various economists have blogs, some mentioned here.
Sean
This one can be scary because it is a lot of macroeconomics, but it is from the man who predicted this mess (and was laughed at) in 2004, Nouriel Roubini
http://www.rgemonitor.com/
A Squirrel
@Sean: I second Sean, if you’re in a mood for kinda heavy reading.
Almost all of the recomendations are very good.
ed_finnerty
besides those named (and I second Mish)
across the curve (todays post on IBM will scare the pants (or skirts as the case may be) off anyone)
The Other Steve
Fix whatever javascript is capturing my keystrokes!
I like to use pgup/pgdn and arrow keys to read the web.
Turbulence
Oh God yes! Reading comments is very very painful. I’m using Firefox 3 and if I had to guess, I’d say the problem was related to all the javascript errors that comments pages have on the new site.
Jasper
I will second the Big Picture. It has some very smart people commenting as well. As do many of the others like naked capitalism. Not many of the lead bloggers will give trading advice, probably for SEC reasons, I’d imagine, but the readers do and it’s sometimes very GOOD advice.
Really it’s amazing how many bright people are not a bit surprised at what is happening – called it years ago.
I have to post this link, however. It’s a debate between Art Laffer (inventor of the GOP Holy Grail of tax policy Laffer Curve) and Peter Shiff from TWO YEARS ago. Peter Shiff is amazing predicting what we are seeing right now. Laffer is shown to be a fool and a clown, which is fitting, IMO.
Anyone who thinks this mess wasn’t foreseeable MUST watch this video. You’ll be convinced it was, and angrier than you already are about our government allowing it to happen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfascZSTU4o
dopealope
I’ve found these podcasts extremely helpful:
Planet Money
dopealope
And this is a pretty good overall explanation of what is happening:
This American Life
skippy
i have a comprehensive list of links to great econoblogs on my sidebar, including calculated risk, krugman, bonddad, mish, rge, naked capitalism, and others.
this list is below my rather long list of political blogs, but it’s worth looking for.
and the good news is, i have a new category at the top of my blogroll called "skippy’s daily reads," and one of the five names is "john cole."
jTh
Please GOD, not only five per page. Ten, minimum, or fifteen would be just fine. "At least a day’s worth."
Brandon
http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog
Dr. Doom’s (aka Nouriel Roubini’s) blog. Pretty bearish economist who’s been right nearly 100% on the causes of this crisis, if not the form it would take. He’s been talking about the derivatives markets crashing for years.
Krugman’s blog (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com), obvious for a liberal, although some of his posts are too wonky for a person without a lot of economics knowledge.
I also like Brad DeLong (delong.typepad.com), who’s a berkeley economist in the same vein as Krugman, but who blogs more frequently.
Barry Ritholtz (bigpicture.typepad.com) is fantastic.
kommrade jakevich
We read a number of message forums, but I don’t feel comfortable recommending any of them due to the loony factor. Yes! There are people who acknowledge the economy is completely craptacular and rabidly support George Bush. I assume their heads are reinforced by steel bands. Plus, there are people who still insist everything is fine. And tin-foil hatists. I’m guess I’m saying that once you feel you have a grip on basic knowledge keep an eye out for a forum you feel comfortable with.
Assuming you haven’t had to sell your computer to buy cat food by then.
How about five pp but you put the list of 10 recent posts back in.
Also, the Black Wall of Oblivion still comes up.
DrDave
http://cunningrealist.blogspot.com/