Reading Recommendation About Current Economic Conditions

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Permalink Reply by Nicola D'Amato on January 6, 2009 at 1:04pm

Hi Gary.

I hope you find this interesting...World Economic Situation and Prospects 2009

http://www.unctad.org/Templates/webflyer.asp?docid=10852&intIte...

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Permalink Reply by Scott Massey on January 6, 2009 at 2:37pm

I like Paul Krugman. Also the Planet Money podcast is good for current analysis, and has covered things from a historical perspective from time to time. Hope that helps.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin McC. on March 9, 2010 at 11:13pm

Okay, so I'm over a year late "joining" this conversation. The thread is new to me, though, so I thought I would share a link to William Anderson's Krugman in Dreamland blog. Enjoy.

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Permalink Reply by Gary Petersen on January 6, 2009 at 6:08pm

Thanks for both replies. I'll investigate both suggestions.

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Permalink Reply by Josh Kaufman on January 7, 2009 at 9:16am

Gary,

Here are the the clearest and most simple explanations I've seen, in article / blog post form:

1. A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis by Jess Bachman (wallstats.com)
2. The End of Wall Street's Boom by Michael Lewis (portfolio.com)
3. Inside Wall Street's Black Hole by Michael Lewis (portfolio.com)

Hope this helps!

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Permalink Reply by Bibhu Ashish Panda on January 14, 2009 at 10:57am

How about the book "The Predators ball" ?? This book is an eye opener about the way the equity market has been used to the advantage of a few individuals.

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Permalink Reply by Gary Petersen on January 15, 2009 at 6:11pm

Thanks for the links, Josh. The Michael Lewis articles, especially, were very interesting and illuminating reading.

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Permalink Reply by Tommy O'Dell on April 21, 2009 at 7:57pm

Hey I came across this video on the Presentation Zen blog. I find it really adds to the ones posted above. Informative and really really cool design.


The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

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Permalink Reply by Gary Petersen on February 7, 2009 at 7:23am

Thanks for all the resources, folks. They've helped me out. Here are three blogs on the Wall Street Journal site that someone from the Journal recommended to me. They've provided useful information, too:

MarketBeat: http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/
Real Time Economics: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/
The Wallet: http://blogs.wsj.com/wallet/

Gary

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Labenz on March 23, 2009 at 11:29pm

I realize that this is coming late, but I highly recommend calculatedrisk.com. Very thorough coverage and lots of stats on events as they happen. Good insight into housing and government intervention as well.

Cheers.

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Permalink Reply by Gary Petersen on March 23, 2009 at 11:53pm

Thanks for the suggestion, Nathan. I'll check the site out.

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Permalink Reply by Gary Petersen on March 24, 2009 at 1:37pm

Nathan, I took a look at the site you recommended. It appears to be just a list of sponsored links, some of which appear to be get rich quick schemes. I don't see the thorough coverage and stats you mention. Where are they hiding on the site? Thanks, Gary

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