Sonny Limatina
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I have footers blocked for a reason. Your posts have footer-like content in them for a reason. That's great, but as soon as I see them, I skip them.
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I have footers blocked for a reason. Your posts have footer-like content in them for a reason. That's great, but as soon as I see them, I skip them.
The CR Gallery is a collection of current graphs from the economics blog Calculated Risk.
About Calculated Risk
• Calculated Risk: Real name: Bill McBride (author since Jan 2005)
A full time blogger, Mr. McBride retired as a senior executive from a small public company in the '90s. Mr. McBride holds an MBA from the University of California, Irvine, and has a background in management, finance and economics.
• Tanta: Real name: Doris Dungey (contributor from Dec 2006 through November 2008). Tanta passed away on November 30, 2008. Please see: Tanta: In Memoriam and from the NY Times Doris Dungey, Prescient Finance Blogger, Dies at 47.
Nice comments about the blog:
1) Time.com 25 Best Financial Blogs, March 2011
“If you only follow one economics blog, it has to be Calculated Risk, run by Bill McBride. The site provides concise and very accessible summaries of all the key economic data and developments. One of the reasons McBride is able to do this so well is that he has an almost uncanny knack of recognizing which facts really matter. He began the blog in 2005 because he saw a disaster brewing in the form of the housing bubble, and tried his best to warn the rest of us of what was coming. I've followed him closely ever since, and I don't know if he's ever been wrong. My advice is, if you've come up with a different conclusion from McBride on how economic developments are going to unfold, you'd be wise to think it over again!”
Professor James Hamilton, Economics, University of California, San Diego
2) By John Carney Senior Editor, CNBC.com
"It’s very clear to me that this fact of the extension of unemployment benefits is widely misunderstood—and would have remained widely misunderstood if not for the meticulous and clarifying genius of Calculated Risk."
3) By Alen Mattich at the WSJ: The Best Economics Blogs
"Calculated Risk, produced by Bill McBride, is more focused on U.S. economic developments, particularly in the real-estate market. But investment banking research rarely gets to the nub of the issue as quickly or pithily as McBride following data releases and market developments. If you’re following U.S. macro trends, it’s a blog that demands frequent visits."
4) By David Weidner at the WSJ: Ten Wall Street Blogs You Need To Bookmark Now
5) Nobel economist Paul Krugman in the NY Times:
"Calculatedrisk, my go-to site on housing matters."
6) "y far the broadest, deepest, and smartest coverage of the subprme crisis and housing meltdown comes not from any newspaper but rather from the blog Calculated Risk."
Felix Salmon, Condé Nast (now at Reuters)
7) "Calculated Risk, ... posts not only offer running commentary on the news but also break down the economics of the mortgage game. ... Some of the commentary can be a slog, but no other site offers this level of analysis."
Business Week
8) Recent mention in the NY Times:
"Consider this chart from the Calculated Risk blog (and revisit it regularly). As the picture shows so vividly, we are still waiting for employment to turn back up decisively. Compared with previous recessions, the delay is simply stunning."
9) More recent mentions in the WSJ (just excerpts from my blog):
Here and here.
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For Tanta's media perspective, please see: Media Inquiries Policy.
First, you mean you couldn't give a shit.I could give a shit. Stick to the subject.
I have footers blocked for a reason. Your posts have footer-like content in them for a reason. That's great, but as soon as I see them, I skip them.
as I posted earlier yesterday
What does a totally different thread have to do with the subject at hand? Or Is sticking to the subject only important when you are being made fun of?Sonny, grow up, go to the Constitution thread, put on your big boy pants and answer my question to you.
What does a totally different thread have to do with the subject at hand? Or Is sticking to the subject only important when you are being made fun of?
I hesitate to ask this, but you're aware that you were responding to a post I made earlier when you weighed in, right? And that that post was directly about the subject, right? And that you even quoted it, right?At what point in this conversation did you ever address the subject?
Your first post was about my siglines and nothing else.
Now, go over and answer the question.
OK, just so I understand your position: You feel that my first post in this thread was about your fake footers, is that right?You only addressed the "footers."
Let's give him an A on aversion and and F on growth creation, and all agree that a C is a crappy grade on something as important as our domestic economy.
Merc's contention is that demand drives an economy and guess what, as I posted earlier yesterday, the government is demanding through coercion that banks make bad loans on homes...
Again! Look out for good times, a regular roaring 20's!
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Frédéric Bastiat
I have footers blocked for a reason. Your posts have footer-like content in them for a reason. That's great, but as soon as I see them, I skip them.
I don't know how to define an actual against a theoretical. We probably averted a deepening crisis, but in playing prevent defense, I think we also forgot to plan for the win.yeah but don't forget a C is a pass...
It's an easy question. Your position is that my first post in this thread was in response to you, is that right?
All Bush and Obama did was protect the people who created the problems, and hurt the people who pay for the folly.
It makes exactly no sense. You appear to be saying that the backlog of homes is causing employment difficulties. You do realize that the opposite is true, correct? That if people can't find jobs, they can't buy homes...right?
Yes, building houses puts people to work. But you have supply and demand mixed up, and you greatly overestimate the proportion of the work force that is employed by the housing industry. Further, you're confusing future homes--i.e., those yet to be built--with existing homes yet to be bought.
What propotion of the 9.2% unemployed would you say normally work in fields related to homebuilding?
Can anyone link this for me
and show me if its true?
Cause I doubt that it is
Especially the more recent writings
cause all ive seen is that it made it worse
Originally Posted by mercury14
Nope, straight from the Fed (which AJ quoted), Moody's, CBO, Global Insight, and Macroeconomic Advisors. ?