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Top ten blogs to read during the banking crisis
Here is a list from The Times of London. I would add Felix Salmon, Paul Krugman, Arnold Kling, calculatedrisk, Dealbreaker, Brad DeLong, Naked Capitalist, and others.
I thank Mark Brady for the pointer.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on October 10, 2008 at 03:03 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink
Comments
Do you mean 'Naked Capitalism'?
Posted by: gaddeswarup at Oct 10, 2008 3:36:26 AM
I'd add Sad Guys on Trading Floors; sadguysontradingfloors.tumblr.com.
Posted by: Indregard at Oct 10, 2008 4:45:57 AM
I like Tyler's list. Oliver Kamm the world can do without reading. It's like reading Anne Coulter or Michael Moore.
Posted by: Finnsense at Oct 10, 2008 5:07:45 AM
I would add Mark Thoma by name. Both for his own commentary and all of his links. Economist's View is an outstanding blog - as is yours.
Posted by: Scot at Oct 10, 2008 6:10:54 AM
Most of the blogs Mr. Cowen names are too partisan to be useful. (Maybe by now Paul Krugman knows what a carried interest is, or that Fannie Mae wasn't a competitor of Countrywide, but I doubt that he really understands the financial markets.) I would add acrossthecurve.
Posted by: y81 at Oct 10, 2008 7:24:49 AM
I read the Big Picture and Calculated Risk, and enjoy those.
Posted by: Dave at Oct 10, 2008 7:39:30 AM
You forgot "Across the Curve", essential reading on understanding the underlying flights to quality.
Posted by: Alex at Oct 10, 2008 7:41:26 AM
You forgot Roissy in DC.
Posted by: Ninja Zombie at Oct 10, 2008 7:52:27 AM
Winterspeak has been posting a lot more since the crisis began.
Posted by: Ted Craig at Oct 10, 2008 9:55:18 AM
lewrockwell.com seems to be a good one as they were more accurate in their analysis than the fed-treasurer-supporter sites Tyler is promoting.
Does anyone think we should have info on the Presidential working committee on financial markets made public yet? or is secrecy still the best policy for manipulatibng markets?
Posted by: Gabe at Oct 10, 2008 9:57:46 AM
Had to give up on DeLong when the ratio of partisan hackery to economics got to be totally overwhelming. It's a shame, but it'll probably be safe to go back after Nov 4.
Posted by: Slocum at Oct 10, 2008 10:41:51 AM
i think calculated risk is among the best. except i cannot deal with the hundreds of comments and the first!!11!
i go back and forth on Mankiw. for a while all he posted was stupid links to partisan bs, but he's gotten a lot better lately.
Posted by: pants at Oct 10, 2008 10:42:10 AM
I created a Cullect.com reading list of the blogs: http://cullect.com/Banking-Crisis-Blogs
Posted by: Garrick Van Buren at Oct 10, 2008 11:09:54 AM
I would add Steve Sailer's blog, isteve.blogspot.com.
Posted by: David at Oct 10, 2008 2:28:50 PM
Thirded on acrossthecurve. I also find Alea quite useful.
Posted by: Bernard Guerrero at Oct 10, 2008 11:54:50 PM
I don't understand why Krugman makes these lists. He seems to get more respect than you'd expect from a guy who is so often wrong and who clearly has an ax to grind. Remember when he said 9-11 would be good for the economy because, gee, now we need all these new buildings?
Posted by: at Oct 11, 2008 4:01:12 AM
how can you possibly leave out professor Roubini's blog?
Posted by: roga at Oct 11, 2008 6:38:38 AM
interfluidity should probably be added as well.
http://www.interfluidity.com/
And, for much needed comic relief - or gallows humor, as the case may be - Long or Short Capital is also becoming required reading for me.
http://longorshortcapital.com/
Posted by: Eric at Oct 11, 2008 8:54:57 PM
Anne Coulter or Michael Moore do not belong in the same sentence; one of them attacks bereaved widows, and the other one is funny.
Also, for everyone who thinks they know Krugman or DeLong or anything better than Cowen: including a link to make your point could make you, if not convincing, at least remotely plausible.
Posted by: Janus Daniels at Oct 12, 2008 9:12:34 AM
