Top 100 Blogs
In the Category of General Blogs or blogs which focus on a variety of topics. These blogs regularly present on a variety of topics and are a great way to start understanding economics or even to keep up with current economic events.
– Marginal Revolution
– The Big Picture
– Calculated Risk
– Naked Capitalism
– Economists View
– Grasping Reality with the Invisible Hand
– EconBrowser
– Capital Markets & Economic Analysis
– Robert Reich
– The Baseline Scenario
– Cafe Hayek
– Chris Blattman
– On the Economy
– Economists Do It With Models
– Dani Rodrik’s weblog
– The Money Illusion
– The Angry Bear “The Angry Bear blog is a very popular multi-author blog. This left-leaning blog provides incisive commentary on U.S./Economics, law and politics. Popular topics: Law, U.S. Economic policies, politics
Angry Bear was ranked 17th. Not bad!
Yes, that is very nice. But I don’t understand why they didn’t single out my insightful commentary on economic theory and stock recommendations for special praise.
Although maybe you do, run. 🙂
Bev:
Even the Star and The Enquirer are insightful. My MIL was stuck on the Star and was afraid the Cabbage Patch Dolls were causing Andi to have terror dreams as quoted by them. When you are on the mark, you are good and I know you are good. I also know when I am reading “Dear Abby.”
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/06/rarely-has-an-argument-refuted-itself-so-comprehensively Scroll down and see who you know in the comments section.
Or my legal acumen.
Don’t take it to heart! You know, as my father-in-law used to say regarding a whole fish roasted with the head on, which is a big EWWWWW for most people, “Some people don’t know what’s good.”
I came to agree with him. Please note he didn’t eat the fish’s head. He just cooked it with the rest of the fish and then removed it to serve the fish. The result was a very tasty roasted fish instead of a bland one. Old school French chefs agreed with him, according to Escoffier’s book of recipes and commentary.
This blog is terrific. Out in DKos and similar websites, people are behaving badly regarding HRC versus Bernie. Here it is possible to read about something other than “Rox and Sux.” Thanks, Bears. I always have this blog to look forward to every morning. 8-P NancyO
Nancy:
Angry Bear is good. The economics of it, the reporting on social issues, the legal side of it from Linda and Bev, we have much to shout about. We have some of the best economists posting to AB and fielding comments. Not bad . . .
Nancy actually the best tasting part of almost any fish is what is called the “cheek”. Which is the part below and behind the eye and above what would be the neck if fish had necks. But which is generally discarded when you cut off the “head”. This is particularly known among the aficionados as it regards “halibut cheeks” but is true for the whole salmonid/trout family. And in practice the only way to get access to it is to cook the fish whole. Now back in the day I had academic friends who in an effort to be more gourmet than the cooks in the restaurant insisted on eating the eye. Because COOOOL! But the rest of us knew just to salvage that scallop shaped portion of yummy flesh below it. Google it, you can find it flash frozen or fly-in fresh for only the price of “you don’t want to know”.
Econospeak is on the list at 68.
However, those numbers are not a ranking. I have had email with the guy doing that ranking, who thought that everybody knew it was not a ranking. What a fool. He recognizes now that he should not have put numbers in front of the journals. Of course everybody thinks it is a ranking.
The sign that the numbers are meaningless is that he has the blogs in categories. So if the numbers meant anything we would have a ranking of categories, where all the blogs in one category are ahead of all the others (he started with the general categoy), with all the ones in the next category above all the rest, and so on, and he has about five categories.
So, the numbers are meaningless. Sorry if this pops some bubbles here at Angry Bear, much as I am your fan.
(I found this out because I wrote to him to complain about his characterization of Econospeak, which I think he may have changed. He had it founded and run by me, which is inaccurate.)
Barkley:
No harm done. That we made someone’s favorable list is always a plus. 🙂 I did not see numbers either. I listed the 16 preceding and assumed we were 17th due to the order in “General Categories.” It would have been better to do alphabetical (then we might have been closer [if not] #1).
Thank you for the explanation.
Nah. I’m pretty sure it means that Econospeak is just not as good a blog as Angry Bear. 🙂
Food fight!!!
Bruce:
I was just poking at Barkley. Although the A in Angry moves us to the top and our economists are tougher than their economists.
Angry Bear? Gets us right to the head of the blogrolls and positions our economists for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize.
Run, just a thought.
– The Angry Bear “The Angry Bear blog is a very popular multi-author blog. This left-leaning blog provides incisive commentary on U.S./Economics, law and politics. Popular topics: Law, U.S. Economic policies, politics
Angry Bear is almost always my first stop, followed by Economist’s View and Grasping Reality…………..I am grateful to everyone here (and there, Yves, too), for thoughtful, often amusing, always informative commentary.