Greetings good folks!
What follows is a post I’ve been meaning to do for a while, and I was especially encouraged to do after the ridiculous success of my satirical post “Blogosphere, We Get It…“. I feel that I left out a lot of great blogs, and wanted to put together a more comprehensive list.
A while back, before he was uber famous and when he didn’t get more TV time than George Stephanopoulos, Josh Brown put up a fantastic post outlining some of the major (and less major) players in the financial blogosphere that you might want to be following. I benefited considerably at the time, as my journey into the blogosphere was still young (and still is).
But the blogosphere has changed greatly since that post. Some have vanished, and many, many good ones have joined.
This list is by no means complete, and I’m sure I have forgotten many good ones, so please let me know in the comments (or email me) if you think something needs to be included. In fact, I know I have forgotten many good ones, so I will likely be making considerable additions to this over the next week.
Unlike Josh’s post where he ranked blogs by their merit, I’m going to rank them randomly. It may be more difficult to parse, but because readers have such broad interests and can gather so many different types of information out of any one site, I decided I didn’t want to tell people which ones are the best as their opinions and goals may differ from mine.
I have included several think tanks in the list, accepting the risk that someone bitch about the content and claim that the entire list is biased. I suppose it’s strange to group them with bloggers, but many of these sites now operate essentially as blogs, and it would be silly to ignore them when they can sometimes provide very helpful information.
All traders, or blogs primarily focused on trading activities, have been grouped into a single category. This is to make things difficult. But also, to allow me to emphasize that all investing activities are interrelated. Don’t box yourself into a narrow belief system.
This list isn’t exclusively financial blogs, but more of a financially-focused person’s information feed. Some broader politics and technology blogs are included. I encourage anyone interested in the particular topics to check out all blogs listed, and show some love to the guys down in “Other”. They are down there because I wasn’t quite sure where they belonged, not because they are a lesser quality of blog. Let me know if you think a blog would be more accurately represented in a different category.
Without further ado, the financial blogosphere.

Mainstreamers
- Josh Barro - Forbes
- Derek Thompson – The Atlantic
- Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone
- Justin Fox – Harvard Business Review
- Andrew Ross Sorkin – NYT Dealbook
- Herb Greenberg – CNBC
- Doug Kass – The Street
- Kevin Drum – Mother Jones
- Joe Weisenthal – Business Insider
- Jesse Eisinger – Pro Publica
- Emanuel Derman – Reuters
- Felix Salmon – Reuters
- Ezra Klein – Washington Post
- Matthew Iglesias – Slate
- Paul Krugman – NYT
- Floyd Norris – NYT
- John Carney – NetNet
- Steven M. Davidoff – The Deal Professor – NYT Dealbook
- Megan Mcardle – The Atlantic
- Jason Zweig – The Intelligent Investor – WSJ

Broad View
- Barry Ritholtz – The Big Picture
- Beate Reszat
- London Banker
- Project Syndicate
- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
- Patrick Chovanec – An American Perspective From China
- Josh Brown – The Reformed Broker
- Econ Matters
- Visual Capitalist
- Mark Dow
- Value Walk
- Investment News
- Open Democracy
- Finance Addict
- Keith Hennessey
- E-Financial News
- Rolf Norfolk – Broad Oak
- Craig Pirrong – Streetwise Professor
- Gail Tverberg – Our Finite World
- 24/7 Wall St
- Bespoke Investment Group
- The Epicurean Dealmaker
- Weakonomics
- Quantivity
- Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism
- Nouriel Roubini
- Jeff Miller – A Dash of Insight
- Angry Bear
- Tadas Viskanti – Abnormal Returns
- Market Folly
- Mike Konczal – Rortybomb
- Walter Kurtz – Soberlook
- Michael J. Panzner – Financial Armageddon
- Cullen Roche – Pragmatic Capitalism
- Zerohedge
- Mike Shedlock
- Prieur du Plessis – Investment Postcards
- Bronte Capital
- The Psy-Fi Blog
- Paul Kedrosky
- The Capital Spectator
- Alea
- Bearish News
- Eric Falkenstein – Falkenblog
- Bonddad
- Market Montage
- Leigh Drogen
- Eddy Elfenbein – Crossing Wall Street
- Wade Slome – Investing Caffeine
- Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up
- My Investing Notebook
- Julian Hebron – The Basis Point
- Barbarian Capital
- Jr Deputy Accountant
- Ultimi Barbarorum
- Stone Street Advisors
- Cassandra Does Tokyo
- Steadfast Finances
- Wall St Cheat Sheet
- Wall Street Oasis
- The Daily Reckoning
- Credit Slips
- eWallstreeter
- Simoleon Sense
- Prophet Without Profit
- Also Sprach Analyst
- Deus Ex Macchiato
- Macro Exposure
- Macro Man
- Marc Chandler – Marc to Market
- Accrued Interest
- Growthology
- The Slog
- Ken Jarboe – The Intangible Economy
- Wall Street Rant
- Interloper

Traders
- Life Opener
- Tom Brakke – The Research Puzzle
- Scott Bell – I Heart Wall St
- Street of Walls
- Tim Backshall – Capital Context
- Hedgeye
- Blythe Masters
- Trade For Profit
- Wesley Gray – Turnkey Analyst
- Themis Trading
- Calibrated Confidence
- Ed Hodder – SEC Data Guy
- Credit Writedowns
- Bond Girl – Self Evident
- Peter Brandt
- Ivan Hoff
- Eli Radke – Trader Habits
- Economic Disconnect
- Dinosaur Trader
- Derek Hernquist
- David Merkel – Aleph Blog
- Phil Pearlman
- Howard Lindzon
- Cale Smith – Cale in the Keys
- David Blair – Crosshairs Trader
- Dynamic Hedge
- J.C. Parets – All Star Charts
- Mebane Faber – World Beta
- Bill Luby – Vix and More
- Market Ticker
- Kid Dynamite
- Jesse’s Cafe Americain
- Upside Trader
- ChessNwine
- Joe Fahmy
- Bill Cara
- Quantifiable Edges
- Afraid to Trade
- Alpha Trends
- Condor Options
- Tickerville
- CXO Advisory Group
- Greg Harmon – Dragonfly Capital
- Mercenary Trader
- Investing with Options
- Michael Dawson – The Trend Rida
- Attitrade
- Evil Speculator
- Sean McLaughlin – Chicago Sean
- Michael Bigger
- Greenbackd
- Dividend Growth Investor
- Roger Nusbaum – Random Roger
- Todd Sullivan – Valueplays
- Vitaliy N. Katsenelson – Contrarian Edge
- Humble Student of the Markets
- Insider Monkey
- Fat Pitch Financials
- Long or Short Capital
- The Fly
- Jeffrey Carter – Points and Figures
- Felder
- Robert Sinn – The Stock Sage
- Nanex
- Trading Markets
- Money Morning
- Green Faucet
- Phil’s Stock World
- Real Clear Markets
- Minyanville
- The Guru Investor
- Benzinga
- Barron Maestro – Stock Market Advantage
- The Wall Street Examiner
- Capital Chronicle
- Fintag
- IBEX Salad
- Expected Returns
- Crackerjack Finance
- Ticker Sense
- Iacono Research
- Macro Business
- Merrill Over Matter
- Fibs and Waves
- Market Timing Update
- Daneric’s Elliot Waves
- The Trader
- Wave Principle
- Index Universe

Economists
- Kantoos Economics
- Evan Soltas
- Andy Harless
- Scott Winship
- Economics of Contempt
- Brad Delong
- Economonitor
- Will Wilkinson
- Yoram Bauman
- EconLog
- Stephen Gordon – Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
- Catherine Mulbrandon – Visualizing Economics
- Miles Kimball – Confessions of a Supply-Side Liberal
- Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok’s Marginal Revolution
- Greg Ip
- Rajiv Sethi
- Megan Greene – Economist Meg
- Mark Perry – Carpe Diem
- Econompic Data
- Noah Smith – Noahpinion
- Modeled Behavior – (Now at Forbes)
- Austan Goolsbee
- Scott Sumner – The Money Illusion
- The Baseline Scenario
- Bill McBride – Calculated Risk
- Voxeu
- Freakonomics
- Steve Randy Waldman – Interfludity
- Mark Thoma – Economist’s View
- Greg Mankiw
- Econbrowser
- Jodi Beggs – Economists Do It With Models
- Cafe Hayek
- Austrian Economists
- Division of Labour
- The Becker-Posner Blog
- Chris Blattman
- Craig Newmark – Newmark’s Door
- The Incidental Economist
- Think Markets
- Econ Talk
- Fistful of Euros
- David Beckworth – Macro and Other Market Musings
- Linda Beale – At Taxing Matter
- Ajay Shah
- Antonio Fatas and Ilian Mihov on the Global Economy
- John Tepper – City Economist
- Creative Destruction
- Cyril Morong – The Dangerous Economist
- Dani Rodrik
- Demand Side Economics
- Economics Roundtable
- Diane Lim Rogers – Economist Mom
- Ryan Sanchez – The Poorman’s Economist
- Institutional Economics
- The Liscio Report
- John Williams – Shadow Government Statistics

Think Tanks
- Global Policy Forum
- Open Europe
- Foreign Affairs
- Sunlight Foundation
- Urban Institute
- Brookings Institute
- National Low Income Housing Coalition
- Martin Prosperity Institute
- Kauffman Foundation
- Citizens for Tax Justice
- Roosevelt Institute
- The Century Foundation
- ProCon
- The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
- The International Institute for Strategic Studies
- Center for Responsive Politics – Open Secrets
- Economic Policy Institute
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Economics 21
- The National Bureau of Economic Research
- Tax Policy Center
- Mercatus Center
- The Independent Institute – The Beacon
- Adam Smith Institute
- Better Markets
- Ludwig von Mises Institute

Spin-offs
- New York Times’ Economix
- Financial Times’ FT Alphaville
- Reuters’ Macroscope
- Dealbreaker
- CNBC’s Pony Blog
- CNN’s Street Sweep
- WSJ’s Deal Journal
- WSJ’s MarketBeat
- NPR’s Planet Money
- WSJ’s Financial Adviser
- Financial Times’ Beyond Brics
- CNN’s Term Sheet
- WSJ’s Real Time Economics
- The Economist’s Free Exchange
- WSJ’s Heard on the Street
- Reuters’ DealZone
- Reuters’ Hedge World
- Reuters’ Alpha Now
- The Fiscal Times
- Reuters’ Counterparties

Tech

Others For Your Information Diet
- Above the Law
- Justin Kan
- Hedge Fund Invest
- Explore
- Take Part
- The Oil Drum
- Crooks and Liars
- Kay McDonald – Big Picture Agriculture
- The Sports Economist
- Farnam Street
- Jay Rosen – Press Think
- Dan Ariely
- Frugal Dad
- Robert Reich
- Compliance Week
- Chris Gaun
- Gregor Macdonald
- Nathan Yau – Flowing Data
- Footnoted
- Advisor Perspectives
- Rick Bookstaber
- Climateer Investing
- PE Hub
- LOLFed
- Re: The Auditors
- Money Science
- CFO
- Kids Prefer Cheese
- Overcoming Bias
- Andrew Gelman – Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- All About Alpha
- Brazilian Bubble
- Neil Collins
- Blake Goud – Sharing Risk
- Sudden Debt
- The Economic Populist
- The iBanker
- Time Price – The Price of Everything
- The Swap Report
- This is the Green Room
- Those Who Speak
- All Roads Lead To China
- Andrew Biggs – Notes on Social Security Reform
- Beezer Notes
- Bubble Meter
- Common Sense Forecaster
- Digitopoly
- Coyote Blog
- Greed, Green, and Grains
- Ben Jones – The Housing Bubble
- Steve Hsu – Information Processing
- Whale Wisdom
- TED
- Mortgage News Clips
- Tim Iacono – The Mess That Greenspan Made
- The Monkey Cage
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Only one accounting blog (re: the Auditors), and that one a niche blog? If you consider accounting to be part of the finance sector, then top blogs to note are:
FEI blog
The Summa
Accounting Onion
Grumpy Old Accountants
Going Concern
Taxes, also part of the financial sector, are well represented by:
TaxProf
TaxGirl
21st Century Taxation
I’ll check these out, thanks.
These are all great blogs, but they focus more on accounting as a profession and the regulations involving it. They would be better served on an Accounting Blogosphere list.
The Wall Street Ranter @ WallStreetRant.com !
Some interesting stuff, now following you.
Thanks, appreciate it!
wow what a great list, ton of work! thanks for doing it (great bookmark piece) and for including me…
There’s CliffKule.com too. It’s a mix of a bit of everything
This site is interesting, but appears to be just aggregation.
They do interviews and original articles weekly too
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