“Batting 8th Today . . .” To a blogger, making RealClearMarkets.com is a bit like a novelist being mentioned on Oprah’s book list: it delivers an instant, nationwide “pop” in your traffic (actually, international — RealClearMarkets.com reaches readers in dozens of countries, not to mention senior policy makers in Washington, Wall Street-types, etc.). So, it’s...Read More
“Dear New York Times Op-Ed Department . . .” Just in case any readers of this blog know anyone, I just posted the following on Craig’s List: I write a highly-regarded (but relatively lightly read) real estate blog, and am looking for someone who can help get my pieces/posts published on high traffic, national sites...Read More
Want insight into Warren Buffett’s latest annual letter to shareholders? You can read analyses by the “usual suspects”: financial writers at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, etc. And/or you can read mine — featured on RealClearMarkets.com today (and this blog yesterday).Read More
Misleading, Sensationalized Headlines Just days ago, Barry Ritholtz called out The Wall Street Journal for its (increasingly) misleading, out-of-context headlines. I just ran into another example yesterday on the otherwise credible RealClearMarkets.com, which aggregates the top 30 or so business-related print and blog pieces daily (mine have appeared more than a dozen times in the...Read More
Playing “Sovereign Monopoly” One sign that a blog post has “legs” is how many people read it: at the moment, “Clinton’s Folly” is getting about a hundred hits an hour, from all over the world (thanks, RealClearMarkets.com!) Another sign is that the piece proves to be “fertile” when it comes to generating off-shoot ideas. “Clinton’s...Read More
LA Times, Washington Post, Forbes — and City Lakes Blog! RealClearMarkets.com is probably the leading aggregator of business-related commentary in the world. Its lineup today includes pieces from The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Times of London, Business Week, Bloomberg, and Forbes. Oh, yeah: and a post from this blog, “Clinton’s Folly,” that...Read More
