Shadow Stats: More on Government Economic Statistics
Shadow Government Statistics promises 'Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting': shadowstats.
September 1, 2008
August 12, 2008
FT Alphaville
FinancialTimes' ftalphaville. Instant trends, market moves, as seen from the City outside the USA.
August 4, 2008
Housing Wire
Housingwire is a lively news source for the mortgage and residential real estate industries.
July 27, 2008
Urban Digs:economics of NYC real estate
urbandigs tracks real estate in NY -- more aimed at investors than at consumers.
July 8, 2008
Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter tallies failed lenders
The Implode-O-Meter is the brainchild of Aaron Krowne, a former researcher
at Emory University in Atlanta. A computer scientist and mathematician,
Mr. Krowne, 28, started the site in 2007, believing that the troubles in the
housing market, and by extension the mortgage industry, would worsen.
He was right -- and the Implode-O-Meter took off. Traffic on the site soared,
reaching as many as 100,000 regular visitors, and advertising dollars rolled in.
Mr. Krowne quit his day job and hired 10 people for his company, Implode-Explode Heavy Industries.
"The crisis has come in waves," Mr. Krowne said. "It just keeps coming."
Business: Loan Pains Turned Site Into a Hit
By LOUISE STORY
Published: July 8, 2008
The Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter, a Web site, is gleefully tallying the
number of lenders that run into trouble.
June 16, 2008
What do you want out of law school ?
What do you want out of law school ? Lawyers !
When do we want them ? Now !
A more refective take on the attorney factory.
[Via lawandletters]
September 23, 2007
Several comments have criticized Krugman
Several comments have criticized Krugman for shifting his position,
but I think what has shifted is the second part. He still knows all the
models, and the models he prefers still work as well as ever. But as
for guessing which applies right now in the face of insufficient
information, all he can do is place a wager. It might be better than
most non-economists can do, but it might not be that much better,
and it might be worse than some people can do out of just happening
to have the right kind of intuition for the current situation--or simply
holding doggedly to the same single bullet theory until it finally
happens.
From Krugman Was An Economist
Update 2007 Sept: What's not to like about Paul Krugman.
September 19, 2007
unfogged
unfogged, guilty pleasure group blog. Example musing and pointer
(The main problem with modeling is that any complex model
encapsulates dozens or hundreds of the modelers’ assumptions,
none of which are necessarily wrong, but many of which could
be interpreted differently by reasonable people at the next
meeting.) and erudite salaciousness in a quest for comity.
July 7, 2007
Digital Money Forum
Digital Money Forum keeps on top of electronic payments.
Example: ATM anniversary.
June 22, 2007
IBanking Oasis
ibankingoasis hobnobs with the junior monkeys of investment banking.
Example: their life in NY.
June 18, 2007
Gary Weiss
Gary Weiss' Investment muckracking.
Example: Ticks in naked shorts.
June 16, 2007
Bank Tech News
banktechnews about payment, transactions and settlements.
Blocking ACH Fraud and debit filters
June 14, 2007
Payments News
paymentsnews, example of mobile-phone based transactions.
Excellent design.
June 2, 2007
Autoblog relaunch
Autolog has cleaned up its design, and keeps posting
about twice an hour.
Notable: Relaunch and companion Autoblog Green lusts after
the new MINI Cooper D.
Previously: Autoblog enjoyed the MINI back in 2004, too.
May 25, 2007
Naked Shorts / Greg Newton
Credit Derivatives: Where’s the Risk ?
CDO implosion coming, by nakedshorts.
May 1, 2007
Fortuito.us web evangelism
Fortuito.us webtastic web evangelism by metafilter guy
April 1, 2007
Mortgage Who's who: Bob Tedeschi on mortgages at NYT
March 18, 2007
Julian Sanchez
Reasonable JulianSanchez notes the prophecy of Max Headroom,
March 5, 2007
FastLaneDaily
Fast Lane Daily portal of driving and automotive blogs.
January 25, 2007
Division of Labour / group econ blog
Division of Labour econ blog finds Milton Friedman week,
with market conservative leanings.
January 15, 2007
All About Alpha
AllAboutAlpha, example:
value premium, value pricing.
return = alpha + beta * (market return)
January 10, 2007
FX UDS EU by Bond Dad
FX: US$ vs Euro, US$ collapsed 2002-2005.
Noted by Bond Dad.
December 17, 2006
Housing markets at Seeking Alpha
December 7, 2006
informationarbitrage / Roger Ehrenberg
Information Arbitrage / Roger Ehrenberg
Examples: Why make content that others monetize ?
The socialist realm of user-generated content.
Wall Street Compensation: A Flexible Model for a Changing World.
October 2, 2006
All about Alpha
allaboutalpha, another investment and finance strategy journal
where Alpha Male opines about portabe alpha.
September 28, 2006
Michael Covel
Michael Covel, turtle investor.
Watch out for scams.
September 27, 2006
Financial Rounds
financialrounds, an east coast finance
Professor.
Example: Scams.
August 12, 2006
Carnivalofrealestate
Carnival of real estate
Best of Real Estate this week.
August 5, 2006
mortgagebankers
Mortgage Bankers have an association; news on refinancing, prepayment,
orginations, servicing, delinquency, foreclosures, MBS, ABS, securitization.
More like this: mortgage.
July 22, 2006
Random Rodger / Rodger Nusbaum
Random Rodger Nusbaum investment strategy.
Example: Get some exposure to foreign ETFs.
July 2, 2006
Andy Kessler
Andy Kessler telcom investing.
Skype (SkypeOut), Vonage E.g.s, Philly WiFi battles Verizon
and Silicon Valley history.
Also in the NYT.
June 26, 2006
NY Real Estate maps: Shark Bites
Curbed and Property Shark team for NY Property Map theme of the week at Shark Bites.
June 25, 2006
Capital Spectator
Capital Spectator on money, interest rates, and hedging the economy:
Examples: TIPS (inflation-indexed Treasury,10-year TIPS), market
watching fed funds.
June 24, 2006
Ticker Sense
Tickersense monitors the stock market and trendspots:
first day of the month, GoogleTrends.
June 21, 2006
sf metblogs
sf.metblogs, the thinking man's sFist.
Example: film fest.
June 19, 2006
Not Making this Up / Jeff Mathews
Jeff Mathews is not Making this up: Example:
criminal defence in the name of Jesus.
June 17, 2006
Law and tax: options dating
Chicago Law faculty finds a link between executive compensation,
performance, governance and tax law.
The purported goal of section 162(m) of the IRC (the provision
that limits deductibility) was to reduce total amounts of
executive compensation.
The problem cases involve the managers deceiving the board,
not the company deceiving the government.
June 11, 2006
Curbed: New York Real Estate / Lockhart Steele
Deflate real-estate hype. Update twice per shift. Former magazine
editor Lockhart Steele mocks overpriced condo listings and the
language brokers use to pump up and pimp out properties.
PriceChopper highlights grossly overpriced apartments and
takes credit when the asking price drops.
BubbleWatch links to optimistic market forecasts. Curbed's major
feature drawback is its New York-centric coverage and its
obsession with celebrity and luxury properties. Occasional
ganders at Los Angeles and Boston.
June 6, 2006
Bankers' Ball
Bankers' Ball, banking life, with CFA follies.
May 31, 2006
May 19, 2006
Trader Feed, Trader Psychology
Trader Feed opines on trading strategy and psychology.
By author of Psychology of Trading (Wiley, 2003) using
historical patterns in markets, Brett Steenbarger.
EX: feeling momentum.
May 18, 2006
Random Roger investing
Random Roger invests his portfolio,
and explains how, in the WSJ.
May 16, 2006
The Quant / Richard Booth
THE QUANT by Richard Booth: about the intersections of law, business, finance,
economics, and statistics. A law Professor.
May 14, 2006
Matrix @ Miller Samuel
Home buying reasons vary by generation and that open
houses are now on iPod video.
-- Matrix at Miller Samuel.
April 26, 2006
xplane Visual thinking
Visual thinking and marketing by Xplane.
Charmingly illustrated technology and business process graphics
remind me of Richard Scary's Busyown.
April 24, 2006
Subtraction
Subtraction by NYT designerism and ia by Khoi Vinh.
April 23, 2006
Wall Street Folly
Wall Street Folly: clipping service for the aspiring beta banker.
April 17, 2006
Bull Moose / Marshall Wittman
Bull Moose aka Marshall Wittman is a fair handed Democrat.
April 16, 2006
The Deal
Corporate merger, acquisitions, and take-overs: The Deal offers a
NY-centric view. See also Deal Breaker and Deal Book.
April 12, 2006
Club for Growth
Club for Growth is pro growth and proud of it.
April 9, 2006
Greg Mankiw
Greg Mankiw opines economically, mostly on current events, for
the benefit of his undergraduate Economics class.
April 8, 2006
Under the Counter
Under the Counter tracks who's who in investing.
March 19, 2006
Obvious or Trivial Except ... / Tim Worstall
Tim Worstall's Obvious or Trivial Except ... examines the
political economy of Paul Krugman.
March 18, 2006
stumbling and mumbling / Chris Dillow : winner's curse
February 7, 2006
genx40 / Alan McLeod
Generation X at 40 attracts civil thoughtful comments.
How Canadian.
Highlights: Friday chat.
Down with pervasive remote-sensing automated computerized
biometric surveillance - Up With Hats !
December 21, 2005
Evan Williams / EvHead Odeo
Evan Williams, blogging and podcast (Odeo) pioneer.
November 28, 2005
Catallarchy
Catallarchy -- praxiology for the masses: example.
November 9, 2005
Real estate sentiment at Miller Samuel Soapbox
Real estate sentiment and appraisal of the New York market at
Miller Samuel's Soapbox. [*]
2005 Dec: Promoted to blogroll2.
October 26, 2005
Dave Cross, data munger
Dave Cross, London based perl guy, has long been in my pingoshere.
Picks up on techs trends, not ASAP, but as they start crossing the
chasm. And summarizes them.
Also a fierce advocate for good customer service, with
emphasis on forthcoming non-deceitfulness over pampering.
And lefty local pantser.
Update 2006 Mar 01: Now on OnLamp.