Greg Mankiw’s Blog Greg Mankiw is a Harvard professor of economics. He has also authored a text that several economics departments use (I used his book when I took Econ 101) and from 2003-2005 he was chairman of President Bush’s council of economic advisors. Basically he is a very respected economist and overall smart guy….
TheLongtail.com TheLongTail.com is a wonderful blog that discusses long tails. What are long tails? The concept is described very well here. Basically it is that with the costs of a storefront coming down thanks to the internet it is easier and easier to target small niches that otherwise don’t get much attention. When that happens…
TheKirkReport.com The Kirk Report is one of the deans of investment blogs. Kirk was there pretty much from the beginning and he continues to provide excellent information in his posts. He posts on everything from trading/investing strategies to trader psychology. He also has regular LinkFests where he discusses market related news. There are a lot…
Bespoke As new as blogging is the folks down at Bespoke are pretty good at it. They launched their blog at the start of May and are already getting rave reviews from several other investment blogs and news sources such as WSJ and CNBC. How did they accomplish all of this in such a short…
RandomRoger.com Random Roger is a blog dedicated to investing. For the most part Roger focuses on the intermediate to long term with his investment wisdom and ideas. He focuses a lot on ETF’s and global investing along with what he is doing with his money and client money. He is very common sense oriented. Of…
CookingforEngineers.com Cooking for engineers is one of the more popular cooking sites out there. The writer Michael Chu apparently is an engineer and by the look and organization of the site he is. He started the blog a few years ago in an effort to have his own online recipe storage database. Obviously it turned…
TagsKitchen.com Tags Kitchen as the name implies is a blog devoted to cooking. TagsKitchen.com has been posting a ton of recipes lately in addition to its staple How To posts. Probably my favorite two posts are the Cooking Molten Chocolate Souffle and Baking Banana Bread. If you have never had a good chocolate souffle then…
Masterseek is a new business search engine. While this is a sponsored post I actually like this tool. I did a search for “Baupost Group” In case you haven’t heard about it, it is a hedge fund that last I heard is a closed fund and boom Masterseek has the contact info. It has a…
Bloggerwave is a new and exciting opportunity for bloggers. Basically they pay you to write reviews and ads on your site. I will be doing sponsored reviews from time to time and while this is one I think the aspiring blogger should go, sign up, and do a review. For now this is easy money…
Crossing Wall Street.com I get onto Crossing Wall Street.com almost every day. Why? Because it is full of common sense investment related information. Some of my favorite types of posts that they do are like this one US Stocks in Euro’s and in their earnings charts such as this one on VAR. Crossing Wall Street…