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.

ShareWillem Buiter has a very useful and provocative blog at the Financial Times website called Mavercon.  The Dutch-born former Bank of England MPC member is not afraid to take policy makers to task or call a spade a spade.
In his latest post on why banks are refusing to lend to creditworthy customers, he has some [...]

ShareA 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, [...]

ShareBrian 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 [...]

ShareWe 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 [...]

ShareI 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. [...]

ShareI have not posted all day because I have been spending most of the day doing site maintenance — importing the data from the credit crisis timeline into a database, which will make it a lot easier to update, backfill and make changes to the timeline. We now have about 700 discrete events catalogued [...]

ShareDue 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.

ShareToday 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 one [...]

ShareFor those of you who think that finance is mumbo jumbo and can’t make heads or tails of what anyone is talking about this time, I have a solution:
Bloomberg’s Financial Glossary
This is a great resource with over 8,000 entries and 18,000 links. It’s not a cure-all to weed through the terminology and complexity that [...]