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’Econ bloggers: outlook worse, again
Since we’re always curious to know what our blogospheric comrades are thinking, we’re highlighting a few items from the latest Kauffman survey of economic bloggers.
The previous survey, released in August,
Bloggers can’t do economics. Discuss.
A new-ish letter (H/T Greg Mankiw) from a Fed economist opens with the below:
In this essay, I argue that neither non-economist bloggers, nor economists who portray economics —especially macroeconomic policy— as a simple enterprise with clear conclusions,
[MoneyTech] The hedge funds are watching us…
Okay, maybe not ‘us’ as in FT Alphaville, but they are watching some other financial blogs.
From Tim Human at the Cross Border Group:
Data firm monitoring influential blog sites Hedge funds are testing out a data feed produced by monitoring a group of financial commentators that includes bloggers.
With great power… [UPDATED]
While FT Alphaville is not aimed at a retail investment audience*, we do attract a small number of “what should I do with my pension?” and “isn’t GKP amazing?” type commenters.
So it was with interest that we noted the results of a Harris Interactive survey which found that:
It’s a financial blogwar!
The pixels are flying: Felix Salmon at Reuters on Thursday took a gratuitous swipe at The Business Insider’s Henry Blodget, over the latter’s alleged failure to disclose the details of his past wrangles with the SEC and Eliot Spitzer,
Blogonomics, or the economics of writing for “free”
Mark Penn, chief strategist of the Clinton Campaign, sparked an uproar in the blogosphere last week when he asserted the following in the pages of the Wall Street Journal:
In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers.