WTF? 10 Best Gloom And Doom Sites
This is one odd list: Really? Greg Mankiw -- Doom & Gloom? What the hell is that about?
Here's the list, the full commentary is at the site:
1. Daily Reckoning
2. Clusterfuck Nation
3. The Big Picture
4. DollarCollapse.Com
5. Angry Bear
6. Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis
7. Naked Capitalism
8. Peter Schiff
9. GREG MANKIW'S BLOG
10. The mess that greenspan made
I don't know whether to be proud or insulted . . .
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From anybody associated with Bush that is definitely a badge of honor.
Posted by: STS | Jul 1, 2008 2:10:19 PM
Barry,
Your obviously way too pesimistic and too analytical. Try writing about something nice like kittens or something. ;-)
PS Keep up the good work. Many many thanks for digging into the real data and info.
Posted by: Greg | Jul 1, 2008 2:13:43 PM
First of all, Mankiw's site is hardly a blog since I effectively made him close the comment section. Furthermore, the buffoon hardly even says anything himself. His "blog" is at best a *linkfest*.
Not to mention he's unctuous !
Posted by: CaptiousNut | Jul 1, 2008 2:19:24 PM
Barry. You should be insulted that something called Clusterfuck nation is ahead of you, written by some chap named Kunstler, of all things.
- AT
Posted by: Andy Tabbo | Jul 1, 2008 2:21:17 PM
I like CF Nation, he gets carried away sometimes, but is a good writer with good observations (summary: we are f'd)
Posted by: JAN | Jul 1, 2008 2:22:49 PM
Someone with some scripting skill is gaming the poll to amuse us....it's pretty f*cking funny that someone managed to get him on that list.
Posted by: KnotRP | Jul 1, 2008 2:23:48 PM
BR, Maybe it's time for another one of those "nothing but good news days"?
Posted by: ARISTOTLE | Jul 1, 2008 2:41:14 PM
NOW THIS IS GLOOM AND DOOM !!!
Kunstler:
So where we are at now is the equivalent of standing in the slop by the ocean shore under a gathering hundred-foot-high wave that is about to come crashing down on our heads. Since I sure don't know everything, I can't say how this will all play out in the months ahead, especially with the presidential election coming at the exact moment that voters will be turning on their furnaces for the cold and dark winter beyond. I would venture to say that so far our society as a whole has done a piss-poor job of comprehending the situation. But there is still the possibility, with four months of politicking left, that the nature of our predicament can be articulated in a way that few can fail to understand, the way Mr, Lincoln articulated the terms of the Civil War on the eve of its fateful outbreak.
Sorry, Barry. Your gloom is like an Amway salesman on Ritalin compared to this.
Posted by: Douglas Watts | Jul 1, 2008 2:41:19 PM
Lists are created to attract our rat brain's attention, which is why they are used by so many media sources, especially blogs.
You should be "proud" that you are on the list but "insulted" that your blog is associated with yet another mindless, attention-stealing list to attract readers...
Posted by: The Financial Philosopher | Jul 1, 2008 2:43:08 PM
Doom and Gloom?!?
I don't get it. I don't get it at all.
Posted by: mickslam | Jul 1, 2008 2:59:56 PM
Who's gloomy? I made more money trading the short side in June than I make in most years.
Some of that was due to ideas from reading posts and comments on this site.
Doom and Gloom? No, it's this little thing called reality.
Tx, BR
Now back to my vacation!
Posted by: Vermont Trader | Jul 1, 2008 3:12:06 PM
Mish's site is easily the best of that bunch
Posted by: Victor | Jul 1, 2008 3:14:12 PM
Be proud. Barry.
Reality isn't for sale. Perception mangement is the hallmark of successful mendacity. The liars had a good run. The cat's out of the bag and they keep trying to pretend nothing is chasing the rats. They are cornered and looking for the exits. They are a bunch of Bagdad Bobs.
I notice "they" are throwing money at the market with the PPT today. They are getting desperate. Just imagine how much they'll need to throw around July 21.
Posted by: AGG | Jul 1, 2008 3:15:33 PM
Happy, happy, joy, joy is simply an inappropriate reaction to our current economic situation. If anything, BR, you are a realist. Ignorance is bliss.
Posted by: Marcus Aurelius | Jul 1, 2008 3:17:42 PM
I have never interpreted your analysis as doom and gloom. I actually think you are a bit of a optimist and hopeful about the future. Your "problem" is that you have chosen a path of critical thinking versus accepting what is being handed out.
Reality is that individuals need to take care of themselves. We no longer should expect or can expect some entity or agency to take care of us. This does not mean we all go buy 40 acres and drop razor wire on the perimeter and grow food. It does mean that you work with people you trust and do not live beyond your means.
Posted by: JT | Jul 1, 2008 3:24:50 PM
the asshats get tripped up equating 'doom&gloom' with reality. they do not like reality or the truth. reality and truth are best served here. many thanks for what you do each day.
Posted by: reality bites hard | Jul 1, 2008 3:30:42 PM
Surely Nouriel Roubini deserves at least an honorable mention on any list of gloomy bloggers.
Posted by: Estragon | Jul 1, 2008 3:34:03 PM
strident now all the time.
And I say this as a confirmed pessimist.
Posted by: General X | Jul 1, 2008 3:34:57 PM
All I wish to say at this point is that it seems that your blog is only one of a handful of sources on the web that actually analyses data in a dispassionate manner, rather spinning it in your role as a cheerleader, either for doom or for "prosperity"
Posted by: Anon | Jul 1, 2008 3:35:03 PM
Try to be realistic and have an opinion that generates some cognitive dissonance and you're dealt a quasi-ad hominem attack, and labeled a permabear.
Real professional. It appears that someone still has the coping mechanisms of an eight-year old.
IF there is a major recession/profit warnings/etc. the bottom will fall out of this market like a trap door and crush today's bottomfeeders as pundits like that site get some reality-induced fear.
Naturally as always YMMV.
Posted by: on the internet no one knows that i'm a westie | Jul 1, 2008 3:38:36 PM
The list maker a douche who can't read nor recognize what is coming for us come hell or high water.
It's the pioneers that always took the arrows. Wear them proudly.
Posted by: John W | Jul 1, 2008 3:39:13 PM
What would be the top ten anti-gloom and doom sites? Are there such things that are not affiliated with a major media outlet or investment bank???? I would love to find one....
Posted by: john f | Jul 1, 2008 3:47:55 PM
It isn't your fault that reality is gloomy!
Posted by: Renting in Mass | Jul 1, 2008 3:50:02 PM
Oh, come on.
What sort of list is this? No Roubini?
And what about gloomboomdoom.com? (Marc Faber)?
Posted by: bumble | Jul 1, 2008 3:57:25 PM
Doom and Gloom - the new right-wing code name for "Reality".
Posted by: donna | Jul 1, 2008 4:03:25 PM
