Comments on: Are Financial Blogs Trustworthy?

By: Lugnut

Lugnut — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:44:21 +0000

Now you can debate Dennis on the best brands of Mac and Cheese, and the optimal number of days between shaving and changing sweat pants.

By: franklin420d

franklin420d — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:51:34 +0000

Manwich 5:51 – “The MSM still doesn’t have the slightest clue just how little credibility they have left with the American people (or ones that actually think for themselves). They’ll go down blaming everyone but themselves. Pathetic.”

But isn’t that the truth of anyone/thing that achieves high levels, but forgets the place they crawled their way up from.

MSM was there from he beginning, bringing people into a new form of media, yet as more and more people came to them, the more they though they dictated the flow of information, so they quickly became the media they replaced and when they thought they reached a certain level, there was no longer a reason to look back at what it was that caused their growth in the first place.

At that point how can they blame themselves for what they created, it is the fault of all those idiots who do not appreciate what they were give.

So if I understand correctly what you are saying, history is filled with people/things that have grown too big for their birches and it is sad and pathetic.

By: polizeros

polizeros — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:04:12 +0000

I would add Doug Henwood to the list. The Liscio Report (http://tlrii.typepad.com) that he co-authors routinely gets quoted by Alan Abelson in Barron’s .

He blogs at doughenwood.wordpress.com from a left perspective with thoughts on economics and comments on podcasts from his WBAI radio show.

By: deanscamaro

deanscamaro — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:13:31 +0000

I know this is a novice blog readers opinion, but not being a financial guru, advisor or extreme trader, the general theme of what I read here, from those who are obviously deeply imbedded in the financial world, is that one should not read the untrustworthy ones……”The trick is to learn which are trustworthy and accurate.”, as stated above. How does one, who is not constantly buried in the financial world figure out how to differentiate the good from the bad? Do the good ones have a dot on their forehead? There are a lot of us out here who have limited time to spend researching, but want to gain some knowledge from the experts to make rational financial decisions for their personal world. I got through the first three from the list above and hit a block. Media talking heads like Kudlow and Cramer are easy to laugh off, but trying to know who are the good and who are the bad “financial experts” is not that easy. Is it just a fact that people like me should stay off blogs like this?

Barry, you have blog topics that ask for input. Why don’t you run a poll on those that readers rate as the experts who have “well-researched and actionable information”, as stated in your intro?

By: Mark E Hoffer

Mark E Hoffer — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:55:44 +0000

First, I totally agree with the Conclusions of the Post, and “Washington’s Blog”, to me, is a really good source of info/intel that isn’t oft found elsewhere.

past that, w/ This: “The talking heads say that financial blogs aren’t trustworthy.

But the whole debate about blogs versus mainstream media is nonsense.”

we may care to wonder why they are projecting that meme..

I’ll offer these, in general: “Rockefeller: Internet is “Number One National Hazard””
“Bill would give president emergency control of Internet”
“Jay Rockefeller: Internet should have never existed ”
link, in specific: http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=Rockefeller+Internet+Security+Bill

were it so easy to address ‘issues’ one-by-one, at their face, things may not be as complex as they seem.

“I would argue that mainstream newspapers haven’t just lost readers because of the Internet as an abstract new medium, but that they lost readers because they became – with some exceptions – nothing but official stenographers for the powers-that-be. No wonder people have lost all faith in them…”
-from the post

We should note that stenographers do not ‘choose’ what they ‘report’(record), they, merely, transcribe what they are exposed to..
~~”"It looks like what people have been saying about Bob Woodward for the past five years, that he’s become a stenographer for the Bush White House.”
#4 here: http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=stenographer

By: beaufou

beaufou — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:54:17 +0000

Are mainstream media people afraid of becoming radicals or lunatics?
Watch out Barry, you might find yourself one day being the head of the US communist party, it isn’t what you say that matters anymore, it’s how many ways you can say it and how many replays you get.

By: VennData

VennData — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:30:05 +0000

Nobody knows anything.

By: Mannwich

Mannwich — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:30:55 +0000

I guess Dennis the Menace lost his battle with the bloggers. What a clown. Is he still on CNBC during the day or has he been axed altogether? I hope it’s the latter.

By: clawback

clawback — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:47:25 +0000

Psst….Tyler Cowen (not “Cohen”).

By: freejack

freejack — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:44:26 +0000

You missed one of the best group econo-blogs out there …

http://angrybear.blogspot.com/

….and yeah, we all miss Kash.