- 1 on crossing wall st - eddy has been @ the game for a hot minute
did anyone say Going Private? not really news but well written and interesting
Adding to the list (last 2) * macro-man.blogspot.com * http://www.crossingwallstreet.com/ * naked capitalism * interfluidity * econbrowser * accrued interest * across the curve (excellent FI blog) * http://www.bloggingstocks.com/ * NYT Dealbook * FT alphaville – similar to Dealbook but more irreverent * Greg Mankiw’s blog is pretty good when he updates it. * Marginal Revolution blog * Freakonomics blog * Abnormal Returns * http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/ for housing/housing finance * Bloomberg (for Treasury yields, commodity prices, and FX) * Drudge Report for general news * http://www.traderfeed.blogspot.com/ * http://www.clusterstock.com/ * bigpicture.typepad.com * Mish’s Global Ecnomic Trend Analysis * Brad Setser (EXCELLENT analysis on fund flows) * Paul Krugman * Dealbreaker (great coverage of news but a not so serious tone) * Beat the Press (Dean Baker) * FT Economist Forum
Don’t forgot 24/7 Wall St, those guys have some great market commentary!
NakedPuts Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Analyst Forum. > > "Drudge Report for general news " - always good to > know people are getting their news from unbiased, > objective sources. Seriously though, why should > you ever want to listen to people who disagree > with you? This is one of the stupidest comments I’ve ever encountered. Drudge Report LINKS articles from all over the news–it doesn’t write anything (except 2 or 3 breaking stories it might break every week). It rarely links commentary–it links general news about the world from all kinds of sources, with the AP, Reuters and Breitbart being the plurality of links. The current headlining story at noon on Saturday is linked from the AP. The next one down on the left is Brietbart. Below that, Reuters, then AP, Breitbart, Financial Times, Yahoo, Yahoo, LA Times, Bloomberg, etc. Some sample headlines: French PM Says World on “edge of the abyss” Unemployment Rate Steady at 6.1% Russia Sees End to US Domination Proud Pelosi Wells Fargo Acquiring Wachovia for $15.1 Billion Out of 36 currently linked stories, only 1 or maybe 2 of them are overtly conservative. This is fairly typical. Unlike you, nakedputs, I have a job and don’t have the liberty to surf the net at will during the week. I guess I should take your advice and get my non-biased news from the DailyKos or the Huffington Post or maybe MSNBC or The Nation rather than the AP, Breitbart, or Reuters.
kkent Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > NakedPuts Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Analyst Forum. > > > > "Drudge Report for general news " - always good > to > > know people are getting their news from > unbiased, > > objective sources. Seriously though, why > should > > you ever want to listen to people who disagree > > with you? > > This is one of the stupidest comments I’ve ever > encountered. Drudge Report LINKS articles from all > over the news–it doesn’t write anything (except 2 > or 3 breaking stories it might break every week). > It rarely links commentary–it links general news > about the world from all kinds of sources, with > the AP, Reuters and Breitbart being the plurality > of links. The current headlining story at noon on > Saturday is linked from the AP. The next one down > on the left is Brietbart. Below that, Reuters, > then AP, Breitbart, Financial Times, Yahoo, Yahoo, > LA Times, Bloomberg, etc. > > Some sample headlines: > > French PM Says World on “edge of the abyss” > Unemployment Rate Steady at 6.1% > Russia Sees End to US Domination > Proud Pelosi > Wells Fargo Acquiring Wachovia for $15.1 Billion > > Out of 36 currently linked stories, only 1 or > maybe 2 of them are overtly conservative. This is > fairly typical. Unlike you, nakedputs, I have a > job and don’t have the liberty to surf the net at > will during the week. I guess I should take your > advice and get my non-biased news from the > DailyKos or the Huffington Post or maybe MSNBC or > The Nation rather than the AP, Breitbart, or > Reuters. I always get this response when I claim Drudge is partisan. “How can it be partisan, it’s just links?” Get real. After the VP debate the Drudge instant poll was running 70/30 in favor of Palin having won. That’s quite far from any other poll I saw and given Drudge’s site traffic I’m sure we have a sample size large enough for statistical significance. In the first line of the Wikipedia article about the site they state it’s a conservative website. Why did others feel the need to start an intentionally left leaning “Drudge Retort”? The fact that I got such a vitriolic response from a devoted conservative reader only serves to reiterate my point. Looking at my post again, I don’t read me offering you any advice on where you should get your news. If you think about it, every news source is a news aggregator, so why would you use one run by a stated partisan, unless you intentionally wanted your news prefiltered for you? Then again, you could make the same argument about me using WSJ.com. Did really just compare Breitbart to AP and Reuters? I won’t resort to cheap personal attacks either.
Matt Drudge is right leaning–to be more correct, he’s a self-described conservative, libertarian and populist (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7270685.stm), which are complete contradictions in most ways. Nonetheless, here are some current sample headlines all to LINKS from news agencies: “Palin on Offensive” Breitbart “Obama Calls McCain ‘Erratic in Crisis’” Politico “Springsteen Rocks Obama Rally in Philly” AP “Zogby: Obama Up by 4” Zogby “Palin’s Words Carry Racial Tinge” AP “Teens Pledge Allegiance to Obama” Youtube link “Month Away, Some Voters Can’t Decide” Wall Street Journal Non-political: “Germany Guarantees Savings to Avert Panic” Financial Times “City Wins Injunction Against Wells Fargo” Yahoo News “Dollar Reaches 13 month high” Bloomberg “Intelligent Computers Put to the Test” The Guardian (UK) Breaking news from Drudge: “Countrywide to Set Aside $8.4 Billion in Loan Aid…Developing…” The facts speak for themselves. It’s not relevant who runs the site or who the main traffic is–that’s classic ad hominem that removes the facts from the arguments. I also read RealClearPolitics, which is run by conservatives, but has about 50% of its linked headlines and material linked to liberal commentators and it compiles–for free–polling data from all over the nation from all sources without bias. I prefer one-stop shopping for news because of time and, frankly, work requirements–my company’s culture is a non-internet browsing culture. Plain and simple. At the end of the day, Drudge is a fast, reliable source of general world news for, ya know, people who have jobs. Get a job that requires you to, uhh, actually work for your pay check and tell me how many sites you routinely visit.
I am extremely unclear as to why you have twice insinuated that I either don’t have a job or have some sort of job which is lackadaisical in nature, essentially on the premise that this must be the case since I don’t read Drudge Report frequently. Please elaborate.