Coming Soon to Credit Writedowns

I’m back. The vacation is now over and I am ready to get down to business. I hope you enjoyed the other posters over the last two weeks. You have probably seen a few of the posts I have written since Saturday, so let me now tell you about an exciting change I have in store for Credit Writedowns

Vacation Mode

Right now, I am getting a bit of much needed rest and relaxation. I started a holiday last week that will continue through next week. So my own posting will be light and the links posts will be thin. Posts from other authors will continue as normal.

All the best.

Edward

Quick note on updates at Credit Writedowns

I have instituted a few changes at Credit Writedowns to which I wanted to alert readers. The changes were mostly for members but they affect all readers. I had heard from a few member readers that it wasn’t clear where member content resides as most of it is integrated into the normal post stream. So I have made a number of changes in order to make the member content much more recognizable as members-only content

The latest at Credit Writedowns

Hi Everyone, I just wanted to update you on the goings-on here at Credit Writedowns in the new year

Happy New Year Smiles

Coldplay is what I’m listening to tonight

Credit Writedowns Pro is now live

Finally the time has arrived. Credit Writedowns now offers Credit Writedowns Pro, a members-only forum for those interested in finance, markets and the economy. I finished up my first weekly newsletter piece this morning and have been working on some admin/backend stuff since then. There are a few kinks in the system but things look ok

Introducing Credit Writedowns Pro

The time is fast approaching when I start the new Credit Writedowns newsletter, now officially dubbed Credit Writedowns Pro. Here’s what will happen

Credit Writedowns Weekly Report, Vol 1 Issue 1: European and US Sovereign Debt

With the fundraiser week winding down, I am going to start making a few changes now. One thing we probably need is a synopsis of the past week’s posts in order to tie the week’s events together thematically. I will make this synopsis using the most read and tweeted posts plus the ones I think are most relevant to what’s actually happening in global markets and the economy.

This week there is a ton of stuff here. So, here we go with the weekly report volume 1, issue

The Credit Writedowns fundraiser begins today

Happy Monday! Today in this last week before Thanksgiving, we are launching our fundraiser to help pay for this site’s maintenance. I have had the distinct pleasure of funding this site out of pocket for the last three years. I am asking you today to help me keep it going as a free site, welcome

Update on Changes at Credit Writedowns

Thank you for all of the wonderful support in responding to my Monday post about changes at Credit Writedowns. Here are some thoughts on the feedback and next steps

We need your help with changes at Credit Writedowns

Credit Writedowns started in March 2008. When I got into blogging three years ago, I was using it as a way to hone my thinking about the subjects which most interested me and most affected me in my professional life. I never really intended to be a semi-professional blogger. But somehow I got hooked. And here I am still plugging away. I hope you have enjoyed the writing and learned a ton from our site.

Over the last couple of months, we have been putting out some great material at Credit Writedowns as events in Europe have reached a critical state. I have been devoting more and more of my own time to blogging as a result. I think you readers have enjoyed it because I have witnessed a pickup in the comments on our site. So, despite the troubling times, I have enjoyed it all, especially because of the intellectual exchange with readers.

This has been taxing and I don’t think it’s sustainable any longer. I am the major contributor here on the editing, writing and technical side because we have no dedicated day-to-day staff for either design or technical support. I wish there were more than 24 hours in a day! It reminds me of the sign of the corner market on West 43rd Street where I once lived that proclaimed “Open 25 hours”. That’s how I want to be!

But I can’t be like that. So I now face a choice (brought to a head at the behest of Mrs. Harrison!): either give up the blog altogether or find a way to integrate it sustainably into family and professional activities. I have decided to go with the latter and, to do that, I need your help

I don’t write about some topics for a reason

This is just a reminder that, while I write about a broad array of topics here (the economy, monetary policy, investing, banks, Europe, technology, etc., etc.), there are some topics about which I don’t know enough information to take an informed stance. I have views on these issues, but my expertise is limited enough –