Bruce Sterling / Beyond Beyond @ WiReD
Bruce Sterling / Beyond Beyond WiReD catches news you missed. Example.
April 5, 2009
March 28, 2009
February 4, 2009
Austrian Economists
austrianeconomists considers various matters
Example: on failure:
When Dave Prychitko and I were students of Kenneth Boulding, Mr. Boulding told us both once that if economists really wanted to learn we would study the waste baskets of our peers not what gets published in the journals. Like most "bouldingisms", his statement while odd upon first hearing is actually profoundly true once you think abit about what he is getting at. We learn much more from our failures than we learn from our successes if we open ourselves on the lesson to be learned.
Contrast 37 Signals's Signal vs Noise SvN's take:
I don't understand the cultural fascination with failure being the source of great lessons to be learned. What did you learn? You learned what didn't work. Now you won't make the same mistake twice, but you're just as likely to make a different mistake next time. You might know what won't work, but you still don't know what will work. That's not much of a lesson.
January 1, 2009
The Real Deal
therealdeal vs The Real Deal.
New York real estate action.
September 1, 2008
Shadow Stats: More on Government Economic Statistics
Shadow Government Statistics promises 'Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting': shadowstats.
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.
October 20, 2005
Daily Howler
Daily Howler chronicles the errors and omissions of beat reporters.
It should run as as series of footnotes below the broad pages of
the main stream media, as law review footnotes run below the
simplified article text, or better, as mash up with a Joel, Tom,
and Crow providing counter-commentary below the official
broadcast.
Example: Chief Justice Robert's proletarian roots vs Vice-President
Gore's agrarian roots.
October 10, 2005
infoproc / Stephen (Steve) Hsu
Infoproc (Steve) is a physicist interested in economic inference.
Example: exporting risk, Redmond visit.
October 9, 2005
Voluntary Exchange
Voluntary Exchange is a small econ and public policy blog.
October 2, 2005
Bankstocks / Tom Brown
Bankstocks' daily and occasional news on banking, and investing
in banks (with Matt Stichnoth).
Good fresh content plagued by broken JavaScript.
September 29, 2005
Blame Dick, but not for Indentity
ex-Hip, ex Active Perl guy Dick Hartd now chases marrying privacy
and convenience in a single sign on.
And he appreciates fine cars, travel, and wine.
An excellent presentation at O'Reilly's Open Source 2005.
September 27, 2005
Beldar Law Review
Beldar's legal review.
On Eliot Spitzer:
Whose job, as he views it, is to use the power of the State of New
York to enforce not "the law per se," but ... well, whatever he office whatever his keen insight perceives as being
damn well pleases whatever he thinks will get him elected to his next
target
within that broader, unwritten social compact. (Or maybe its
penumbras and eminations.)
September 17, 2005
political theory
politicaltheory offers a potpourri of headlines, from MSM, and think magazines.
Minimalist design.
September 11, 2005
Roubini Global Economics
Roubini Global Economics Monitor:
Hedge funds: Measuring hedge funds' risk
September 7, 2005
Daniel Gross
Daniel Gross, economic commentator, is consumer-centric
and a left-leaning fact checker
August 18, 2005
Property Grunt ++
Property Grunt is NY-centric and offers charming vignettes
with commentary. Hereby boosted from blogroll 4 to blogroll 2.
August 16, 2005
Buzz Machine / Jeff Jarvis
Buzz Machine: The wisdom of _People_ and _TV Guide_, combined.
August 15, 2005
Financial Rounds: Academics argue gently
Financial Rounds on how to argue gently *.
See also Suzette Haden Elgin ...
FR visits the FMA and finds another golden oldie: NotN.
Continue reading "Financial Rounds: Academics argue gently" »
August 13, 2005
NewEconomist
How I Learned to Love Economics (New Economist)
Going on the job market got rid of my self-esteem problem.
There's nothing like explaining why your work is important to a
new captive audience every 30 minutes to make you believe that your
work really is interesting and important.
At some point it dawned on me, I really did want to be a professor.
I can work hours and hours without stopping, so long as I get to
sleep in the next morning. (If only I felt that way about exercise.)
I like being able to choose my own short-term deadlines. I like doing
research. I have important questions to answer and I enjoy the freedom
to work on them.
The process of completing my dissertation has made it much easier
both to come up with new research topics and to figure out, ahead of
time, which projects might be viable. I know which subfields in my
area are understudied. I know what data sets have or don't have the
information I would need to answer those questions. Literature reviews
for new projects bring up questions that beget future work. I have an
agenda.
August 12, 2005
Matthew Yglesias
July 3, 2005
Economics Roundtable
Economics Roundtable aggregates interest rates, markets and other
economics topics.
June 21, 2005
Tom Peters
The excellent Tom Peters offers pithy business advice for the post-modern
economy. Well organized site.
June 9, 2005
Charlene Li / Forrester
May 22, 2005
dan bricklin
Dan Bricklin: a graybeard of personal computing annotates
conferences and ponders Open Source.
May 20, 2005
Ask Bjoern Hansen
Ask Bjoern Hansen and his notes.
Perl coverage and recent detailed reviews of Mac OS Tiger qualifies
him for my alpha geek blogroll.
May 17, 2005
Inmann
Inmann, mortgage blogger, is barkerishly spammy.
Useful listing of mortgage headlines; links are to pay-per-view versions
of what can was distributed by wire services.
May 7, 2005
google personal seach history
Google Blog-o-scoped reviews Google's new search history retention
and recall.
May 6, 2005
Ben Hammersley
Ben Hammersley, web-centric technology coverage, presentented with
excellent minimalist page layout.
May 4, 2005
Jon Udell
Jon Udell offers pragmatic computer technology reviews with
can-do examples. A favourite writer since Byte magazine.
At O'Reilly, InforWorld index.
Example recorded actual product demos like this Oxygen XML
editor kill vapourware angst of Dan Bricklin's slideshows.
April 28, 2005
Urban Review STL
Excelent Urban Review STL architrectural review of Saint Louis, MO
housing and commercial real estate.
April 8, 2005
Economist's View / Mark Thoma
Economistsview offers leftist hardcore partisan commentary, often Oregon-centric, posing as economic analysis. (archives).
Update 2006 May: value added.
Update 2005 October: Offers pointers to academic papers and Fed speeches.
April 1, 2005
Busy Busy Busy
busybusybusy is a great leftish summary the
day's talking heads' punditry.
January 17, 2005
Daou Report
Daou Report ia blog portal with refreshed ledes.
Mostly political; page layout shows left is left and right is right.
January 10, 2005
In the Agora
In the Agora is a nice name for an Indianapolis-centric current
events blog by Zach Wendling and Paul Musgrave.
Recent controversies: Daylight Savings time.
December 29, 2004
Harris Yong
Harris Yong's (snow driving) and car and tire reviews.
Pics index, and Dragon drive review, and cupholder movie.
December 10, 2004
Political Animal / Kevin Drum
Kevin Drum is Political Animal, the in-house blogger of
The Washington Monthly and something of a clearinghouse
for smart liberals.
Update Dec 2008: Moved to Mother Jones. as Kevin Drum.
December 8, 2004
The sports economist / Skip Sauer
The sports economist by Skip Sauer covers stadium economics,
player-league bargaining, and more.
November 22, 2004
Tim Blair / Spleenville
Tim Blair / Spleenville, lively and colourfull blogger from Australia has a new blog.
November 18, 2004
The Left Coaster
The Left Coaster. A liberal blog
with more thinking than linking.
November 3, 2004
Gothamist
Gothamist is Jan Chung's upbeat, conformist blog about
how to spend small sums of money in Manhattan.
Shop ! Eat ! Drink ! Blog ! Photoblog!
Like a Sears catalogue for the Sex and the City folk.
October 22, 2004
Atrios Eschaton / Duncan Black
Atrios Eschaton, aka Duncan Black's late breaking partisan
democrat news and spite, punctuated by occasional thoughtful commentary
about Ricardian equivalence. ('Eschatology' is a long word
for end game.)
Update 2008 August:twittering
On ABC's The Note:
I've been reading the Note since the middle of the 2004
presidential campaign, and I must say it's one of the funniest
things I've ever encountered. It's the perfect parody of the
insular, snobbish, in-crowd mindset of Washington journalism.
You've captured everything: the craven subservience to power,
the swooning over empty Republican chest-beating, the total
ignorance of issues that matter to non-millionaires, the snide
sidelong shots at people who understand those issues, and -
particularly when you talk about Howard Dean - the pissiness of
people who believe themselves elite and can't quite understand
why nobody else is listening to their pearls of wisdom.
It's like a transcript of a cocktail party attended exclusively
by ultra-rich child molesters and whores. Congratulations on
the brilliant work, and remember the words of satirist Michael
O'Donoghue: "Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy."
More like this: Archives.
Unaffiliated with Immanentize the eschaton.
October 15, 2004
cat slashdot | grep alterslash
alterslash is the thinking man's Slashdot dump.
October 14, 2004
Chicago Boyz
October 3, 2004
MyDD :: Due Diligence of Politics / Chris Bowers
MyDD :: Due Diligence of Politics -- Chris Bowers.