Traveling: Mexico and Germany

Over the next two weeks I will be traveling and will have a pretty sparse and sporadic posting schedule. Next week is Mexico and then the week after is Germany. I am definitely looking to post but it probably will not be in the quantity you have come to expect. While I am on the

Site Maintenance

We will be doing some minor site maintenance this wekend.  Site access will be interrupted briefly Saturday night/Sunday morning around midnight

Site down

If you have been having difficulty accessing the site, my apologies.  The site has been down for part of  the day both yesterday and today.  We are working to fix the problem.  As a result, we have revered back to the old look and feel temporarily

Post Christmas admin message

Hello again. I hope you all had a good few days away. I will keep posting fairly light today as we have one day left until the weekend. This is a brief housekeeping post. I wanted to alert you to a number of changes we have made to the website

The 50 Best Business Blogs of 2008

It was a surprise and honor to visit the indispensable finance resource Business Pundit and find our site mentioned amongst the list of best business blogs for the year.

Thank you Drea for mentioning us. And thank you readers for getting the word out about our site. We hope to continue to meet or exceed your expectations for relevant and thorough business and financial analysis

In Memoriam: Tanta of Calculated Risk

Today I learned that we lost one of the most talented bloggers out there, Tanta from the blogsite Calculated Risk. Tanta had been battling cancer. She died aged 47 and will be missed not only by those who knew her but by her many readers and fans

Using WordPress Again — or at least trying to

A few weeks ago we attempted to switch the blog here over to WordPress from the Blogger platform. It didn’t go so well. In the interim, some of the technical issues seem to be sorted out. If you are reading this post, then we are all ready and set to go. By and large, everything

The Top 25 Finance and Economics Blogs

Brian Gongol comes out with a list of the most-trafficked business and economic blogs every month. This month, we made it onto the list at number 25. I want to thank everyone for reading this blog and helping it get into the top 25 so quickly. I started this blog back in March as a

Now using WordPress

We have now moved from Blogger to WordPress as the software for the site, but everything else should remain pretty much the same. You may have noticed we were offline for a few hours earlier today, but everything is back to normal — or at least it should be. Special thanks to both Tom and

Blog changes: Blogger or WordPress?

I am off to the beach this weekend, so blogging will be light. But I wanted to ask for help on a technical issue first. We have been using Blogger’s platform to run this blog for the past 8 months or so. However, we have run up against a number of issues that are limiting.

Market Crash: News Feed

Due to the market crash today, I will be making extra heavy posts. But, rather than over-post on the blog, I will be posting news items in the News Feed. Please check My News Feed in the sidebar

News Feed

Today I added My News Feed to the blog’s sidebar, so that anyone visiting the site can also see the news items that we post once daily as a part of my RSS Feed and Newsletter. The benefit of the feed and newsletter version is that all the links for the day are together in