THE BEST FINANCIAL BLOGS…
John Carney at CNBC has put together a really nice list of the best financial blogs. Pragcap happens to be on the list (thanks John, the check’s in the mail!), but more importantly, the list contains a dozen or so other really excellent sites. Financial blogs have become, in my opinion, the single best place to obtain unbiased and informative financial news and opinions. The best part is that you get pick and choose which sites you visit and which sites will influence your decision making. Aside from analyst reports, I get 80% of my daily news from financial blogs. They’re invaluable resources and I read just about every one on John’s list (or at least try to).
John has collected a superb list with wide ranging perspectives. If you’re organizing a collection of financial blogs to read on a daily basis you can’t go wrong bookmarking almost every one of these sites and plugging them into your daily news feed. The diversity of this list will provide you with opinions you disagree with and ideas that will keep you unbiased and objective.
Check out the list here.
Yay, you are famous. And by extension I am famous. I’ll use that to my advantages when hitting on women later. Thanks Cullen.
You’ll find it more liberating and powerful if you tell women that YOU are Cullen.
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Since he put up his picture sadly that isn’t an option unless she’s really drunk (which, coincidentally, I prefer).
Congrats, Cullen. It is something when Krugman names checks your lil’ ole site in the NYTimes, and outsources his pummeling of Freshwater silliness to a grad student’s econoblog (Noah Smith).
I loved the financial blogosphere – more, better information from less-biased sources; actual back-and-forth conversations; and personal expression that most good blogs develop.
Keep up the great work – you (and Mosler and Fullwiler and…) are actually having an impact on the thinking of those that control or influence the levers of policy. Quite remarkable.
Awesome. Much deserved.
Woooohoooo…drinks on Cullen!
Prediction: When the truth about money gets out, all of you responsible will be sharing a laugh over the JG quarrel and the like.
Warren and I already have a plan to drink beers and go fishing when that happens. I’ve always told him – he gets the credit for all this. I’d have it no other way. Even though I don’t think he even needs or wants the credit….
Nice writeup. I’m glad to see you getting some credit (of course, Warren will always be the Royce Gracie of MMT).
Pragmatic Capitalism
Cullen Roche has done more than anyone to inform the Internet about Modern Monetary Theory, but he’s much more than a publicist for MMT.
His daily take on the markets is highly informative and infused with a burning enthusiasm for figuring out that all-important question: What’s next?
John Carney has some terribly misinformed MMT articles on his CNBC blog. I haven’t checked there in a while, but was curious what was up with that?
TPC
Congratulations, please keep up the good work; also I didn’t mention this on the other post, but I also look forward to MR. Please let us know when you & Beowulf get it going.
Have a good weekend.
Iluv
Excellent work, Cullen!
“Alternative”?
So you’re the Nirvana or Pixies or The Smiths of the money blogosphere? Rock on.
Yeah, not sure what’s up with that. All of the sites on there are pretty much the big mainstream financial blogs….Unless there’s some other financial blogosphere out there that I don’t know about. Maybe our sites are “alternatives” to the blogs from Reuters, CNBC, FT….I guess. We were around first though which would make them the alternates.
Cullen,
Your commment reminds me of Hillary Clinton claiming she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary because her parents were so inspired by his conquest of Everest. Unfortunately for her story, she was born before he actually climbed it.
On the “alternative” label.
I just wanted to emphasize that these were sites that weren’t embedded in or backed by MSM organizations. I actually think a lot of these sites are superior to a lot of the MSM sites and could go head to head with them. But since I actually work for a MSM site, it seemed inappropriate for me to evaluate my competitors.
No big deal either way.
Thanks John.
Congratulations! You provide a good balance of macro economics and financial management content, but, more importantly, your analysis has been right; e.g., no hyperinflation fearmonguering/the US is gonna go broke stuff. You have also attracted a group of people that make it worthwhile posting here.
Glad to see your efforts have been recognized. PC is awesome. I enjoy the level of intelligent discussion both by you and your commentors. There are some really smart guys out there and I’ve learned a lot.
Thanks and Congrats
Don
Congrats Cullen and keep up the good work! So, you’re winding up your hedge fund and focusing on investor education full-time, which will obviously mean more great content on TPC!
For me your blog is an absolute must-read every day
Just starting a different kind of financial services firm. I might come back to managing money, but I’ve lost the passion for it for now. It’s time for a change and running an investment partnership in the shadows isn’t really the legacy I want to leave the world (assuming I have anything to leave). Big changes coming in the next few quarters. More to come on that. I hope to really be able to make a difference….I want to really help people and the new venture will put me 100% in-line with that goal.
Congrats! You certainly deserve a spot there.
12 of those are on my daily read list. Not sure if that is a good or a bad thing…
But I hate that I had to click through that page-hit whoring slideshow!
AHHHH! Can’t they just give us a list?
You’ve done a great job here Cullen. All the other sites really are the alternates. I can’t thank you enough for what I’ve learned.
Congrats Cullen. Exposure to your blog is one of the few good things that has come out of me wandering into the financial services industry. And it’ll be one of the few things I take with me on my way out.
Great to see you on there. I’d say you can aim for Time’s annual list at the end of 2012!
short side of long is slowly becoming one of the best market timing and investment blogs on the web hands down.
Cullen — I’ll add my voice to the chorus of deserved congratulations. Your site was my introduction to MMT and it has been a wonderful learning experience. My interest in economics is life-long. I have a degree in economics from The Wharton School and MMT was the first explanation of macroeconomics that actually made sense to me. Thank you!
So glad to see you get some MSM recognition. Your blog, topics, opinions and commentators never get old (or at least they don’t age any faster than I do…)
Kuddos Cullen!
Well deserved!
Best,
Martin
Good for you Cullen, you definitely deserve it.
The thing to note about the list though is that its not really about which blogs are giving accurate information (Sumner is on the list and he’s a complete hack) but more about readership. Yes a lot of people are following Sumner and Zero Hedge but that just means a lot are being led to believe really silly things.
I wish he would take a tally of which sites have actually made correct calls the last few years. The hyperinflationistas at Zero Hedge would score a big fat goose egg and Sumner freely admits he doesnt understand banking and accounting so his predictions(he doesnt make many, he’s just a one trick “NGDP, NGDP, NGDP” cheerleader) likely fail to.
Barry Ritholz, while certainly not entirely within the MR paradigm, has actually called for much of the same stuff that you and the rest of MMTists have. He’s a pretty sharp cookie.
Yves Smith is becoming more and more MR/MMT by the week. She definitely gets where the huge gaping holes in modern economic thinking reside.