A few blog milestones worthy of mention today:
Technorati Rank: Top 1,000 (993)
RSS Subscribers: Over 20,000
Technorati Authority 1,768
Blog Reaction 11,017
That is simply too cool!
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Thanks to all of our new and longstanding readers!
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Knowing that the vote over the weekend in Greece was really a referendum on Euro membership, a majority of the Greek Parliament said yes to staying. European Finance Ministers meet again on Wednesday to solidify the 2nd bailout package for Greece at the same time hopefully a deal is consummated between Greece and its creditors this week. The Greek 14.5b euro bond that matures on March 20th is up by 2 pts. The optimism that all will be completed and contained AGAIN to Greece has yields lower in Portugal, Spain and Italy. The iTraxx Financial Index is also narrower by...
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July 3rd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Congrats. Great blog.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Congrats on this milestone. You’ve got a truly good blog and I often recommend it to friends.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Thanks to you to share your insights with us!
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:22 pm
congrats Barry! You are one of the best bloggers out there!!
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Barry, I don’t even know what an RSS feed is. I simply click on you web site 2-3 times a day whenever I’m on the internet to catch the latest. Thanks for your skepticism. Now that we no longer have Herb Greenberg I need an anti bullish antidote now and then to keep me from excessive irrational exuberance.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Kudos to your BR. I also just noticed in the Technorati web page image you displayed… look how they spelled “Digital Media”
Macro Perspective on Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology and Digital Meida
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Barry, congratulations…now use some of that juice to tell the world about how well our Canadian stock market is performing :-)
The Greek.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Life is simple:
There are only TWO KINDS of people in this world: THOSE who read The Big Picture and
OTHERS LESS FORTUNATE.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Everyone needs to look at The big Picture.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Barry, long time reader first time responder. There are many of us I am sure like myself who check in multiple times during the day to read your postings and check on the thread of comments. I thank you, and some of the contiributors for the education and enlightenment on many issues over the years.
Continued success with the blog.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Barry, if I may say so: dude, you rock.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Nice job, BR. You didn’t have to post pics of hot chicks on your blog to get the hits. Now THAT’S impressive!
I think all folks are looking for is an intelligent discussion of financial issues and an opportunity to interact. Bingo.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Hey Barry:
Congrats! I found my way here via Duncan’s (Atrios) linking, but now I check in directly.
I’m just an amateur in the economics realm, but your analysis and commentary have certainly helped make deciphering the situation a bit easier and much more enjoyable.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:06 pm
BR,
more proof that Quality sells itself.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
My feeling is that the success of this site is attributable to the fact that you tell the TRUTH. We won’t see a meaningful bottom until the deception and denial finally hits a capitualation phase. Obviously, were not there yet. The American public(Joe sixpack) are not that naive and their beginning to figure it out. You can fool some of the people some of the time… When the MACD, stochastics and rsi begin to turn up on honesty, the truth and realism, we’ll know a bottom is in place… Keep up the good work.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
BR, what Mark Hoffer said.
From one Steely Dan fan to another, keep thinking, keep writing, live long and prosper!
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Congrats on an addictive blog, Barry. It’s like crack.
And at least the website doesn’t say Digital Medea.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:25 pm
All those hits are probably the CNBC people checking in to find out what’s really going on in the markets :)
I am a TBP addict also.
Keep fighting the good fight.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:54 pm
OT
This is too funny.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303317.html?hpid=topnews
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:53 pm
“You didn’t have to post pics of hot chicks on your blog to get the hits”…
but then… one or two now and then wouldn’t hurt would it?
Maybe just the Sports Illustrated Calendar in the book list? Get a lot more clicks than those boring old money books.
July 4th, 2008 at 1:10 am
I discovered your blog via Seeking Alpha and, after realizing that it was far, far superior to any of the other content on that site, decided to cut out the middleman and began going directly to TBP. Now I visit this site multiple times a day and am disappointed if there isn’t an update, but I realize that you’re a busy person and have other things to do besides entertain/educate me.
July 4th, 2008 at 1:40 am
Well done, Barry – the best of its kind out there by miles
July 4th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Congrats guy,
You oined it!
I guess it just goes to show that sometimes you get more than just a punch in the nose for being a big mouth (;
July 4th, 2008 at 3:58 am
Hey just wanted to say I really appreciate your blog. I’m majoring in finance right now, and I honestly get just as much from reading your blog every day as I do from class–except it doesn’t cost nearly as much haha.
Thanks for sharing your always interesting perspective on the economy, investing, and society in general.
July 4th, 2008 at 7:42 am
First-time comment, although I’ve been reading TBP 2 or 3 times daily for over a year. Before that, I didn’t even know what a “blog” on the Net is. Now, I think I’ve found one that I not only enjoy, but TRUST as well. Too bad your voice is almost alone in the wilderness. Keep up the great work.
July 4th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Good show Barry. Like most of your visitors a check of your site at the start and end of the day is standard operating procedure. Quite apart from your own intelligent and commonsense insights I have to say the quality of a lot of the commentary is quite good too. You don’t seem to attract too many fruitcakes and I’ve actually learned things from your comments and those of poster. Keep up the good work.
July 4th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Enjoy the long weekend, Barry; you deserve a break.
I’ve got a sense we’re entering a new phase: the bullshit artists are being revealed, Larry K is changing his tune and Main Street is twigging to the new normal plus the BP is getting a promised make-over. That’s all good. Onwards and upwards I say (or sideways or way downwards, as the case may be) with the BP!
If I may presume to give advice in the form of encouragement: continue to resist all external efforts to categorize your work. That’s all distraction. Your dogged focus on compiling and evaluating empirical info while wearing your green visor in a dogma-free zone makes this blog important.
A
July 4th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Barry,
Thanks for all that you do. You truly are a philosopher! As a small token of my appreciation, here are some Michel de Montaigne quotes that seem to capture your spirit:
“I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.”
“I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.”
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
Cheers…
Kent (The Financial Philosopher)
July 4th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Good numbers, and no surprise to your long-term readers. More important is the “Class Guy” ranking. I can’t find my password to that site, but last time I looked you were in very good standing.
My only worry is the threat of animation in the new website design.