20 Top Finance and Economics Sites for 2009
When I emailed a friend to say “Happy New Year” I suggested reading Paul Kedrosky on the economy. My friend responded with his current list of econ and financial sites. Since he is wicked smart, it is my ethical obligation to share this information with you.
(In a future post, I’ll share my own (non-overlapping) list of fiance and sites. It’s a hobby of mine.)
I still read Brad Setser (who you suggested), but I’ve added some other sites to my list over the past year.
I find Aleph Blog especially interesting.
John Mauldin has interesting guest columns, but they are often meant to excite the reader into purchasing a subscription for some service or other.
Angry Bear often has interesting blurbs.
Market Rant is a special case — it is beyond description but can be quite entertaining in a loudmouthed way.
Econobrowser often posts interesting articles.
Accrued Interest looks at bonds.
Marginal Revolution has abstracts of interesting articles, with links to the full articles. Check out “One ray of light, one bolt of gloom”. “Macroeconomics without supply” is a fun little blurb.
The Financial Times is really interesting. I liked the article “An Imaginary Retrospective of 2009″ because it was plausible but considerably different than what most people are expecting. We all know that the markets do not do what most people expect.
I also look at Der Spiegel
Thomas Nogales Financial’s Market Alert is worthwhile and has the advantage that there are relatively few updates. Tom Gleason puts out an article once a month and sometimes has an interim “special edition”.
A Dash of Insight is often interesting.
I just recently started reading Contrarianedge.
Investment Postcards summarizes what I read elsewhere, but sometimes the duplication is worthwhile because I don’t get so caught up in the minutiae.
Gregor.US is important for understanding oil.
Naked Capitalism links to lots of articles. It can be fascinating but it’s hard to get much done if I follow many of the links.
Markit gives the numbers for CDS for countries as well as corporate credit. It is the source Bespoke and others use. It’s one way to track how people feel about the US debt, as well as other things which may be mis-rated by S&P or Moodys.
Abnormal Returns is like naked capitalism — lots of interesting links and a huge time sink though very instructive.
Mike Shedlock’s (a.k.a. Mish) site is well-known, and for good reason.