Barron’s: Financial blogs come of age
Very kind words in the electronic investor column this week about your humble blogger.
“Many investors seek answers on financial Weblogs (blogs), where opinions and suggestions fly fast and furious. Barely formatted text strings a few years ago, many of these sites have blossomed into sophisticated information destinations with big-time venture funding and professional staffing. Some are more trafficked than the Websites of traditional publishers, and many, like RGE Monitor (www.rgemonitor.com), are mixed-media tours de force. RGE highlights the TV appearances of co-founder Nouriel Roubini, a New York University economics professor (www.rgemonitor.com/blog/roubini), which I guess makes it a vlog (video blog).
RGE OFTEN MAKES THE best Website lists of mainstream business publications like The Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com). It features granular coverage of the global financial crisis, and is steeped in macroeconomic expertise. A former White House adviser, Roubini headlines a collection of deep thinkers like former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers.
RGE Monitor links to the blogs of its commentators, including the Big Picture’s (www.ritholtz.com/blog) acerbic Barry Ritholtz (acerbic as in references to the Fed as “Wall Street’s bitch” and U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson as “Hank the Destroyer”). A frequent CNBC (www.cnbc.com) commentator, Ritholtz is CEO at quantitative-research firm FusionIQ. He opines on everything from trading tactics to macroeconomics (sometimes to Barron’s) on a site that averages more than 65,000 daily visitors.”
Also mentioned: Ticker Sense, Bespoke Investments, Minyanville, Seeking Alpha, and RealClear Markets. Congrats to all.
Acerbic? Moi ?
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MIKE HOGAN
Barron’s ELECTRONIC INVESTOR NOVEMBER 22, 2008
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB122731239351149445.html
November 23rd, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Humble?
November 23rd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
I think its more “funny” than acerbic…
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:05 pm
“acerbic as in references to the Fed as “Wall Street’s bitch” and U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson as Hank the Destroyer.” haha… made my Sunday afternoon.
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Acerbic = my wife. Sanctuary = TBP.
Go Barry Go.
November 23rd, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Barry,
I think you’ve made a positive difference on reader perceptions by shedding light on the continual financial mendacity and duplicity that threatens to drown out all critical thinking. I thank you again for your efforts.
November 23rd, 2008 at 3:04 pm
you’re probably the 2nd most non-humble of the commentators in the space. roubini takes the 1st place prize. have you read those facebook messages?
November 23rd, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I was using the term sarcastically, which never quite comes across in print properly.
I always loved the old Marx brothers bit: “He’s very humble — and a he’s got a lot to be humble about . . .”
November 23rd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Barry you should consider the adjective acerbic as a compliment. You don’t mince words and waste people’s time with sugar coated BS. That’s why I come here.
November 23rd, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Barry, I think you’re the BEST!
November 23rd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
from above, with which I heartily concur:
“Barry,
I think you’ve made a positive difference on reader perceptions by shedding light on the continual financial mendacity and duplicity that threatens to drown out all critical thinking. I thank you again for your efforts.”- AGG
“Barry you should consider the adjective acerbic as a compliment. You don’t mince words and waste people’s time with sugar coated BS. That’s why I come here.”- OBR
“Go Barry Go.”- TS
BR,
it’s time to stretch out the lead..
past that, I think the timing of their story bites, it could have, easily, been written 6 months ago, but, hey, paraphrasing Barnum: “As long as they Spell my Name right..”..
good going BR..
November 23rd, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Yeah, you’re good, Ritholtz. You’re so good, I write more on your blog than my own. But I wish Barron’s had a side item on the worst financial blogs and maybe I too could have gotten a few props. My three regulars would validate that no one maintains a blog like a run-down tenement as I do. Go CNBC Sucks!
November 23rd, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Oh that’s an easy question. I’d have to say it’s people on the DGRI InvestorVillage message boards.
The same people who are not only currently “working” MDVX on Investorvillage but on every single MDVX board in existence.
You can read about the particulars and the “players” on the Hotstockmarket MDVX site.
Happy pumping!