Review two blogs from this list of the 100 best blogs for economics students. Make sure they are from different categories, and don't repeat one that someone else has already done. Yes I realize that this means you will have to check the previous posts to see which ones have already been reviewed. The sooner you do this one the easier it will be. Reviews need to include:
1) Content
2) Appearance
3) Ease of Navigation
4) Apparent bias
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103 comments:
I did Econlog and The Economic Populist.
#1- Econlog
Content: Blog entries by economists about what interests them, politics and finance, films and cultural observations, and history and literature.
Appearance: The site looks very bland and boring, but it holds a lot of information about economics.
Ease of Navigation: There is a search bar to search the site and tabs on the side so it is easy to find certain topics.
Apparent Bias: Some people think that economics has come down to an attempt to take credit for marketing. Others say it is not necessarily that but more a giving thanks to those that helped make money.
#2- The Economic Populist
Content: Different professionals post blog entries and they have instant an economic news page, statistics page, and a daily news page.
Appearance: The site catches your eye with pictures and different styles for blog posts which make you want to read what’s on it.
Ease of Navigation: They have a google search bar that shows info on other pages. They have tabs on the top for specific pages.
Apparent Bias: Most people seem to think that the rich people are getting richer and the poor poorer and the middle class is disappearing. Some people are thinking ways that this issue could be fixed.
- Renuka Gondi
4th period
Elyssa Buntzel 4th period
Angry Bear & Businomics
Angry Bear:
1)Content: Blog entries from a group of educators and economists on things relevant in today's news and society.
2) Appearance: Overall very bland, and the AD on the page can be annoyingly placed. It is a very simply themed page.
3) Ease of Navigation: Everything is laid out very plainly and can be easily navigated through the topic tabs.
4) Apparent bias: Each blogger tends to have their own bias depending on where their field of education or work is. However, it is a collaborative blog site, so there is no overwhelming bias through the site.
Businomics:
1) Content: Stories the author, Conerly, believes can link business and economics. He lays the story out or provides a link, and then asks the readers opinion. (But there is no comments on his posts..)
2) Appearance: Pretty simple but it gets the point across; that you are here to read about Conerly's idea of business and economics.
3) Ease of Navigation: Also straightforward, navigation bars to archives and topic pages.
4) Apparent bias: I feel like it's just bias to himself. His book is promoted a lot, and his posts might as well be excerpts from his book. Also, his posts titles seem rather negative towards the economy, like everything will always be lousy.
Alyssa Wilson 6th period
Freakonomics & I will Teach You To be Rich
Freakonomics:
1)Content: blog based off of a book written in 2005, has expanded to the blog along with a radio show and a movie.
2) Appearance: nice and cartoon like. Makes me want to look through the tabs.
3) Ease of Navigation: the tabs are self explanatory and the site is easy to navigate.
4) Apparent bias: The blog seems to be centered around the ideas of the first book, so if it is biased towards anything it would be the ideas written in that book.
I will Teach you to be Rich :
1) Content: Blog entries letting followers know about Ramit Sethi's location and ideas, appearances (...etc).
2) Appearance: Sleek look, very business like and to the point.
3) Ease of Navigation: The tabs take you to wherever you need to go, there is not a lot of scrolling involved unless you have to look for a really old article.
4) Apparent bias: The bias of this blog would be towards the author's idea of becoming rich, there are obviously several ways to accomplish that goal, but he spells out his own ideas of how to accomplish the goal.
The blogs I did were I will teach you to be rich and Curious Cat.
1)I will teach you to be rich
Content: Remit Sethi discusses ways of making money to increase personal finance. It also talks about careers and the perks of entrepreneurship.
Appearance: The blog consist of three basic colors, black, white and yellow. It is very simple with pictures of Mr. Sethi.
Ease of Navigation: The site is very organized with four main tabs, then seven sub tabs with titles very straight forward. Most have to do with personal finance.
Apparent Bias: Remit Seth believes in his capability of making money and believes he has figured out the secret of economics.
2)Curious Cat
Content: The site consist of many blogs over investing and economics by John Hunter.
Appearance: The title is catchy and clever. Its theme is green and white, money colors.
Ease of Navigation : The first thing you see are tags which help narrow down blogs of a specific topic. Includes a Google search bar.
Apparent Bias: Expresses the idea that much of the rich people in the country get away with many things and that the U.S is pretty well off than other countries.
-Jenifer Galan
4th period
I must of been typing will someone posted theirs, so I redid my comment and one of my blogs.
1)Calculated Risk
Content: Bill McBride uses his experience to talk about finances, economics and management.
Appearance: The blog consist of basic colors, white and blue. It is very simple.
Ease of Navigation: The site is very organized with five tabs and a search engine powered by Google.
Apparent Bias: The bias would be Bill McBride because he emphasizes his ideas a lot on the subjects, since he has had a lot of experiences on the topics he talks about.
2)Curious Cat
Content: The site consist of many blogs over investing and economics by John Hunter.
Appearance: The title is catchy and clever. Its theme is green and white, money colors.
Ease of Navigation : The first thing you see are tags which help narrow down blogs of a specific topic. Includes a Google search bar.
Apparent Bias: Expresses the idea that much of the rich people in the country get away with many things and that the U.S is pretty well off than other countries.
-Jenifer Galan
4th period
Kimberly Mendez 4th period
Alpha Sources & Visualizing Economics
Alpha Sources:
1) Content: Blog entries focused on providing several different perspectives and ideas in order to overcome conventional economics.
2) Appearance: The site is simple and dull. Doesn’t really capture a reader’s attention.
3) Ease of Navigation: It has a very simplistic and convenient layout. It has a search bar, tabs, archives, and helpful links off to the side.
4) Apparent Bias: Each article in the blog is diverse and doesn’t lean heavily towards one specific side although it does stay relevant to the theme of the blog.
Visualizing Economics:
1) Content: Blog entries describing the nation’s economy through charts, graphs, and other helpful data visualizations.
2) Appearance: All the charts and graphs definitely grab the reader’s attention and makes the whole site seem more approachable and interactive without being too cluttered.
3) Ease of Navigation: Fairly simple layout. Has the standard tabs, search bar, and recommendations. No need for excessive scrolling due to the numerous tabs.
4) Apparent Bias: I feel like there is no bias because each graph and chart simply depicts economic data without having any influence from the author.
Benjamin Kurian
4th Period
Environmental Economics:
Content- A blog about natural resources, the environment, and climate change
Appearance- Very bland and simple-looking. Makes the page look very uninteresting and has too many links on the sides of the page
Ease of Navigation- Not very organized but has a search bar
Apparent Bias- Most of the blogs are one-sided
Seeking Alpha:
Content- Blogs on investing, the economy, and the stock market
Appearance- Looks very organized and grabs attention
Ease of Navigation- Very annoying because this makes you stop and make an account/sign in or you won't be able to read any of the articles. Once you do that, it gives you a link to download its app on your phone/tablet. Other than that, has way too many links on the front page but it's updated regularly
Apparent Bias- Against some big corporations and their methods. Other than that, it gives points for both sides of a story and very thorough explanations
Reuben Kurian
Period 6
The Anti-Becket-Posner Blog
1) Content: The blogs explain the views of Becker and Posner on topics and then explain why they are wrong.
2) Appearance: The theme is banal: the whole background is black while the font is white
3) Ease of Navigation: It's simple. The amount of scrolling needed is a bit excessive because of the lack of tabs, but I suppose the search bar at the top compensates for it.
4) Apparent Bias: This is definitely biased against the Becker-Posner-Blog. If you didn't notice that from the content, it says at the top of the page "A Blog Devoted To Correcting The Mistakes, Omissions, And Downright Nonsense On The Becker-Posner-Blog."
Deal Professor
1) Content: this site contains blogs about the most recent takeovers.
2) Appearance: the theme is simple and straightforward.
3) Ease of Navigation: There are multiple tabs to help you find what you need and also a search bar.
4) Apparent Bias: the blogs seem unfavorable toward mergers and acquisitions.
Lillian Nguyen
Period 2
Ideas and Vox
Ideas
1. Content: This site features David Friedman's opinion and explanations for his opinions about the news that we see on television along with his opinions on social issues.
2. Appearance: His blog layout is very similar to the home page on this blog. It is very appealing to look at as there is not a lot of strong and contrasting colors and is simplistic.
3. Ease of Navigation: The blog is difficult to search through, and I wish he had "next page" button or infinite scroll because in order to go to the previous posts, you have to look under "previous posts" and click underneath it. In addition, it is difficult to go back to most recent post.
4. Apparent Bias: There seems to not be a strong bias, but he does express his opinions well and takes into consideration that certain data are not reliable or valid.
Vox
1. Content: This blog contains articles about the present situations of world economies with a focus on policies.
2. Appearance: I dislike the way the blog looks because it looks cluttered, crowded, and looks like straight out of a search engine.
3. Ease of Navigation: The blog is easy to go through, and the choice of articles provide an easy way to get to the material I want to see. There are also interesting articles along the sidebar.
4. Apparent Bias: The blog seems to want to change the way banking systems work.
Amy Nguyen
Period 6
Naked capitalism and DataPoints
Naked capitalism
1. Content- This site has articles of current events concerning the world economy and connecting those events with future political benefits or disadvantages.
2. Appearance- I like how the blog looks because it appears very organized, and it does not have crazy colors to distract the eyes.
3. Ease of Navigation- The blog is easy to go through because it has tabs on the top of the page, the dates on the side to allow the viewer to look for something on a particular date, and each article is linked to a specific topic.
4. Apparent bias- I do not believe there is an apparent bias because most of it contains the blog asking the viewers to give their opinions on the current issue.
DataPoints
1. Content- The site contains graphs, the interpretation of those graphs, and predictions of the future economy based off the graphs.
2. Appearance- It appears lot be an official site with a simple color scheme, which makes look professional.
3. Ease of Navigation- The blog is easily to navigate because it has dates on the side, links on each article, and tabs on the top that are easily seen.
4. Apparent Bias- There is a slight bias for more of a free trade economy
Rachel Kuruvila 4th period
Undercover Economist & Market Beat
Undercover Economist:
1)Content: A collection of different posts about topics that are relevant in society, and to them personally.
2)Appearance: The website is not very colorful, but it looks very neat and organized. A little bit of organized chaos would have been nice.
3)Ease of Navigation: It was very easy to find my way around the website. All I had to do was scroll down for the most part.
4)Apparent Bias: There did not seem to be too much bias, because with all of the different posts, things seemed to even out.
Market Beat:
1)Content: Blogs by different economists about the market of certain resources. What I found to be a hot topic was gold and what the prices were and what was going to happen to them.
2)Appearance: It is very simple, however it is very easy to read all the information that is presented.
3)Ease of Navigation: It was very easy for me to read each blog. There were clear directions on how to get the full post to each blog.
4)Apparent Bias: With each topic, for the most part, there was more than one post. With this in mind, the reader is able to get the full perspective on many of the issues.
Laura Luo Pd 4.
(Policy) Money and Policy and (Sustainability) Block’s Indicator of Sustainable Growth
Money and Policy
1)Content: Different posts were reflecting how policies shape people's supply and demand type of deal. The contents ranges from various subjects like health, employment, and houses.
2)Appearance: A New Year Times blog that is filtered with their logo. The blog was very attractive to the eyes by being professional.
3)Ease of Navigation: Most of the posts are on the left side of the page. What irks me are the advertisements on the right side because they distract my point of focus.
4)Apparent Bias: Each post is subjective to stating what the author feels should be addressed.
Block’s Indicator of Sustainable Growth
1)Content: This blog deals with how economics persists within today's society. Some examples are from social media sites and house hold needs.
2)Appearance: The blog is very bland but in a good way. The way the blog was set is not very flashy; thereby, the background of the page is very comfortable for the eye.
3)Ease of Navigation: Most of the blog posts are in a vertical descent with the full written post on each blog. This problem was easily solved with a short navigation link on the right side. This format is applicable, but I would like a short abstract of each blog post instead of the whole article.
4)Apparent Bias: It seems like for each topic, the blogger is trying to post a good normative statement that these factors of growing economics are good. There wasn't much negativity in them. It was more like a solution type of deal personally to the blogger.
Tia Lal
Period 2
#1- Economics Help
Content:He shares general information on different aspects of economics and how to make it simpler to understand.
Appearance: Catches my eye with the use of blue color, but it's still pretty simple.
Ease of Navigation:There are tabs at the top, but when you go to another page, the tabs are different.
Apparent Bias: Most of the blog entries are about the UK economy and the EU.
#2- Econbrowser
Content: The entries focus on and are responses to current economic conditions and policies.
Appearance: There is a blue background, but it is uninviting and boring.
Ease of Navigation: There aren't any tabs. All of the entries are on the same page and just click the link to read the full entry.
Apparent Bias: The author seems to be unbiased and gives us all perspectives through graphs.
1) Planet Money
Content:It acts more like a news station with its own radio of different kinds of music and hundreds of podcast videos to view about what is latest in the world money wise.
Appearance: The site just seems boring if you don't take the time to look at the videos, and the logo is their only chance as a catch or possibly a joke to appeal to younger people.
Ease of Navigation: Just clicking on the site automatically escorts you to the list of videos and articles about changing trends in the world. The tabs are pretty self explanatory as it seems to cover everything but crime really. Only recent posts and discussions are easy to find. It's confusing because it seems like any other news sight, and I don't know what to look for.
Apparent Bias: The site seems to be more about what money is being spent on as to where it is all going compared to popular society itself in the United States mostly. It has stories from entertainment to science.
2)Oikos
Content: It only contains information about how the environment is connected to economics within Australia. It contains a little biography about the current author, which is actually the first post seen, meaning it really hasn't been updated on the home page since 2011.
Appearance: The site looks exactly like Mr. Pye's blog, except a lighter shade of blue and also with less links because it only gives access to whatever only the blog does. The author identity is also closer to the top of the page with a helpful overview/summary of the whole site at the very top like a header.
Ease of Navigation: It's too simplistic in the sense it seems like the owner deserted it for a better blog. It's very plain and only on the side bar with fewer viewers and commentators than Mr. Pye can ever have on his site. Oikos seems more like a personal diary of research stories.
Apparent Bias: It restricts itself by only caring about Australia's environment and how it is in economics with global warming and trade that the author happens to find out. He only gives out commonplace facts and his own analysis of the situation as if we are him in I, which is really annoying.
Amy Krauhs
Period 4
Manon Hughes 6th Period
Oikos and A Fistful of Euros
Oikos
1. Content: This blog contains articles about Environmental economics and Environmental policies of Australia.
2. Appearance: The blog is boring and extremely basic, clearly meant to convey information only.
3. Ease of Navigation: The blog is relatively easy to navigate, implemented with easy user interface.
Apparent Bias: The author does not show much of a bias.
A Fistful of Euros
1. Content: This blog contains information regarding European economics and the opinions held of said economics.
2. Appearance: A little jumbled looking, but more pleasing to the eye than Oikos.
3. Ease of Navigation: Very easy to navigate- there are tabs and hyperlinks to the side.
4. Apparent Bias: the author lets on to no bias of his own.
Todd Podbielski
6th
1.Dr Housing Bubble
Content: Elaborates on Current Housing Bubble and issues related in US in a recent time period.
Appearance: Bland, ton of pop ups on the side that are irrelevant
Ease Of Navigation: To see housing bubbles blog you just need to scroll down
Apparent Bias: ton of comments in each article, avoid biasses that may come from article, giving all perspectives
2.Oikos
Content: Australian environmental policy blog which focusses and elaborates on connections between environment and the economy
Appearance: Organized, green themed ironically
Ease of Navigation: Easy to navigate, its blogspot like Mr Pye's
Apparent Bias: Sort of liberal approach in some ways but still good thanks to comments from outsiders.
Vox
1. Contains political analysis as well as their relation to current economics.
2. The blog is relatively appealing, a little crowded with information.
3. Easy to navigate overall
4. No apparent bias, facts only.
Manon Hughes 6th
Carlo Torres 2nd Period
Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up
Content:
Blog entries based on the opinion of solely Jeff Matthews.
Appearance:
Very bland. However, the blog is organized very well with archives spanning from 2005.
Ease of Navigation:
Has a blog archive, a search bar, yet there are no tabs.
Apparent Bias:
Believes that Warren Buffet is Paul McCartney... Provides enough evidence to support that belief, yet seems as if Jeff Matthews idolizes Warren Buffet a bit too much. I didn't think that Matthews' book on the Buffet was not a dead giveaway that he admires Warren until he compared him to McCartney...
The Everyday Economist
Content:
A blog dedicated to both Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. It consists of a detailed background of the situation including mathematical computations. It also consists of theories in economics, which are very interesting.
Appearance:
The blog is clean and pure... It reminds me of the Apple website, just so organized!
Ease of Navigation:
There are tabs, a search bar, archives, and a blog roll that consists of a few of the economic sites Mr. Pye listed.
Apparent Bias:
The Creator of this great website shows no bias opinions because of the involvement of math. Math is never bias. The Creator is just trying to show the reader economics in it's purest form.
Lynnie Dickson
Period 6
I did Planet Money and Economics Revealed!
1. Planet Money
Content: Planet Money consists of different blogs regarding the financial status of the global economy.
Appearance: This site follows a gray and white theme, but it is fulled with pictures regarding each blog post, like a thumbnail.
Ease of Navigation: Navigation for Planet Earth was tricky at first, but can be easily learned through exploration.
Apparent Bias: There is apparent bias due to the fact that the blogs are written by different people with their own opinions on how the money should be dealt with globally.
2. Economics Revealed!
Content: The site contains entries that explain economic fundamentals through examples from the modern era.
Appearance: The site follows a standard black and gray website template. It does not have an colorful visual presence.
Ease of Navigation: The navigation for the blog site is extremely easy. The left-hand side has a list of economic fundamentals, which can be clicked for elaboration and examples.
Apparent Bias: The blog site does not show signs of apparent bias. The blog consists of mainly statistical facts from examples more than personal opinions.
Celine De Leon
2nd Period
1.) Cafe Hayek
Content: Payment policies that don't make sense are being endorsed.
Appearance: The site includes a picture that shows an example as well as using humor.
Ease of Navigation: The article is on top with an included picture. The comments are displayed below the main article.
Apparent Bias: The site shows apparent bias towards those who do not favor some of Obama's policies.
2.) Macroblog
Content: A shortage in full-time jobs has occurred. The characteristics of workers looking for full-time jobs has remained the same.
Appearance: It is straight forward and contains lots of graphs to support his view.
Ease Of Navigation: It showed the main article and data to support it afterwards.
Apparent Bias:He doesn't seem to have a bias and just reports data to support his theory about the shortage of full-time jobs.
Aadithya Srivatsav 4th period
**Economists' Forum and The Big Picture
The Big Picture:
Content: Content tends to be more of news articles and trends in economics and also what the author of the website is reading; Barry Ritholtz
Appearance: It is designed like a machine with tabs that show you what all the website has to offer; it has a blog feel
Ease of Navigation: Very easy, as the articles are all out there for you and the tabs are big; again, typical blog like feel
Apparent Bias: Author is the only writer, so it is his only view points
Economists' Forum:
Content: Has many different articles written by different economists talking about current economic situations
Appearance: Very boring and dull, tends to feel just like any other newspaper
Ease of Navigation: Pretty decent as you can click on the writers and see all their articles although this is a subsection of a much larger newspaper
Apparent Bias: More articles about the European Union and it's countries and less on the rest of the world
Annie Jiang
Period 6
I did Dollars and Sense and Beat the Press.
Dollars and Sense:
Content- Blog entries from different writers talking about world issues, politics, and current dilemmas.
Appearance- The site looks like a magazine article so boring.
Ease of Navigation- There are tabs on the left side of the website, a search engine, and a drop down screen to select a month.
Apparent Bias- There seems to be not much bias in each article because it states facts about the incidents.
Beat the Press:
Content- Blog entries from different authors writing about the political systems around the world as well as the U.S. itself and about U.S.'s economy.
Appearance- This site is bright red and does not look boring at all.
Ease of Navigation- There are tabs on the top of the site, which branch to different sub-categories. There is also a search engine.
Apparent Bias- All the article titles display the most bias because it gears towards one position in the situation discussed, which, then, the articles itself delves into further bias statements relating back to the title of the articles.
Paul Stallings
Period 6
Capital Freedom and Mahalanobis
Capital Freedom:
1. Content: Capital freedom consists of blog entries where the author known as "Capital Freedom" explains legal proceedings, as well as current political issues.
2. Appearance: The Capital Freedom site looks very appealing, and is very well done. The only thing that could be improved on is how often it is updated.
3. Ease of Navigation: The blog is very easy to navigate. Each blog is archived under a certain month and year so it is easy to find exactly what you are looking for.
4. Apparent Bias: The author seems to take a neutral stance. She seems to present both sides of the story.
Mahalanobis:
1. Content: The content of the blog has to do with current economic activities such as inflation and unemployment.
2. Appearance: The appearance of the Mahalanobis blog is very clean and straight to the point. The blog also includes appealing graphs and charts.
3. Ease of Navigation: The blog is very easy to navigate because there are links that take you to certain topics.
4. Apparent Bias: The Mahalanobis blog appears to be very fair and unbiased. The author presents the blog in a very logical and informed way.
Patrick Stallings
Period-4
Dealbreaker
1.Content: This blog talks about financial news and headlines from around the world.
2.Appearance: The blog is very basic. Mostly white, with pictures of all the news stories.
3.Ease of Navigation: The search bar and different tabs make this blog easy to navigate.
4.Apparent Bias: The blogs appear to be unbiased while discussing economics.
Crossing Wall Street
1.Content: This blog deals with stocks and how stocks are changing day to day.
2.Appearance: The appearance of this blog is great. It has charts, graphs, and videos.
3.Ease of Navigation: This blog is easy to navigate. It has a search bar and has every month archived on the side.
4.Apparent Bias: It seems that this blog has no bias because it deals with numbers and quantitative data.
Zoheb Hirani
Period 4
Bronte Capital:
Content: It was pretty cool because the author was chasing a certain signature by Richard Nixon and trying to make some sense of it.
Appearance: It was easy to read, not too many decorations. He spaced his article out nicely.
Ease of Navigation: Blogs are available on the side pretty easily in different months.
Apparent Bias: He is really suspicious of Nu Skin, trying to uncover them as some sort of a con artist company.
The Baseline Scenario:
Content: Pretty cool stuff: The first article I read was about corporate political contributions. I thought it was interesting that the author thought that stockholders can complain about these incidents, just as a homeowners' association complains about rule-breaking neighbors.
Appearance: Beautiful font. Lovely execution. I liked the simple style.
Ease of Navigation: Articles are presented pretty quickly and briefly with a 'read more' option.
Apparent Bias: It feels like the writer is a little bit anti-government and feels that we are really in a deep hole.
Tiffani Weir
2nd Period
Chicagoboyz and Dear Economist
Chicagoboyz
1) Univerisity of Chicago alumni examine current events with the slant indicative of the Chicago Economics Department.
2)The site appears to be very informative, but it does not catch my eye at first glance.
3) The blog is easy to navigate through because there are specific categories you can choose to read from or you can read there more notable posts.
4) I don't see any oustanding bias because each post is from a different writer.
Dear Economist
1) It is a column in the Finacial Times that answers reader's personal economic problems.
2) The website looks professional and well designed.
3) If your someone who reads this blog for entertainment it is easy to navigate, but if you are looking for specific topic it will not be easy to find.
4)The is a bias because the writer of the blog is giving his opinion of other peoples issues.
Citizen Economics
Deal Professor
1. Content: This blog includes articles over healthcare, finances, politics and government, book reviews, science and technology, and numerous other topics.
2. Appearance: I like a cleaner look for websites/blogs. I appreciate how the authors do not have too much "messy" additional information on the website (such as too many ads or too many different color schemes going on).
3. Ease of Navigation: This website has everything is organized into categories, chronological order, and recent popular posts on the side. There are also different tabs at the top of the page directing you to other information. The website is easy to navigate and loads quickly.
4. Apparent Bias: The authors provide unbiased information regarding numerous different topics.
1. Content: Mergers and acquisitions in the business world.
2. Appearance: The appearance is very neat. The blog is white with black lettering.
3. Ease of Navigation: The website is easy to navigate and is user-friendly. Further, the search bar at the top and the tab bar makes for easy navigation within the site.
4. Apparent Bias: The Deal Professor section of the New York Times is unbiased.
Nina Jiang
4th Period
Nima Faegh
Period 4
I did EclectEcon and American Association of Wine Economists
1. EclectEcon
Content: This blog consists of political and economic discussions. For example, the front page lists the opinions of the writer on Israel, Hamas, the economy, and the political situation of the Middle East.
Appearance: The site looks outdated, and the last post is from 2008 which makes sense. There is a yellow, white, and brown color scheme which does not bring pleasant memories to mind. It is pretty straightforward however.
Ease of Navigation: Navigation is very simple and coded well. A search bar at the top allows you to search google for everything you need. Other blogs are listed in the sidebar.
Apparent Bias: Due to the fact that the author lists other blogs on his website, it shows that he is trying to show all sides of economic situations to the reader. He is clearly not majorly biased, however he does state some of his political beliefs.
2. American Association of Wine Economists
Content: The site explains various economically efficient ways to use, store, and grow food and wine, as well as entrepreneurship.
Appearance: There is a simple modern black and white theme, with embedded youtube links and relevant pictures.
Ease of Navigation: Because there are only 2 articles on the entire site, it is pretty simple to navigate. Just scroll up and down.
Apparent Bias: No bias is shown on the website. It simple lists ways to store wine. Another article lists tips on starting your own business.
I did carto unbound and real time economics
Nevin Thomas
2nd period
#1 Real Time Economics
Content: Economics write blogs about exclusive news on the U.S. and the global economy and wall street.
Appearance: I think the layout is very appealing, it has a nice modern look.
Ease of Navigation: They have many shortcuts and toolbars for a quick transition
Apparent Bias: The biases are toward the people that create posts about there own country and build them up because this is world economy too
#2 Carto Unbound
Content: It gives essays and responses by economists and their ideas
Apperance: It has a nice simple appearance not to modern but an easy feeling
Ease of Navigation: Its very easy to navigate tohrough this website with the search bar and all you do is scroll
Apparent Bias: The economists who have the ideas are biased toward there own thoughts and do not think of the opposing side or the responses. its very argumentative
China Economics
-Content: All entries written by Rob Elliot who is an economist with an interest in the Chinese economy. All entries/articles are strictly focused on the Chinese economy.
-Appearance: The site is pretty straightforward but plain.
-Ease of Navigation: It's fairly easy to navigate around the site. It reminds me of a database since you have to click on the article titles to get the full content of each entry.
-Apparent Bias: Elliot focuses mostly on facts and tries to remain neutral on the subject to keep it informational.
Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal
-Content: Entries are written by a Berkeley professor and reports about current events and its relations to the economy.
-Appearance: The site looks quite displeasing to the eye and very boring and doesn't seem worth a second look.
-Ease of Navigation: The articles on his page list on forever, so finding a certain article may be difficult since it's not organized well.
-Apparent Bias: DeLong makes his bias quite noticeable and comments on events negatively and condescendingly if they don't coincide with his own beliefs.
Christine Nguyen, period 6
China Economics
-Content: Rob Elliot, an academic economist, writes all the entries and they are all focused on the economy in China.
-Appearance: The page itself is fairly plain and boring, but it also resembles a database.
-Ease of Navigation: The site is easy to navigate around, and clicking on articles will give a fuller entry.
-Apparent Bias: Elliot tries to remain neutral about the Chinese economy, so he keeps it very factual and informative.
Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal
-Content: DeLong is a Berkeley professor and submits entries about the economic insight on current events.
-Appearance: The site is very displeasing to the eye and looks very boring and is not worth a second look.
-Ease of Navigation: DeLong posts all his articles on one page, making that page extremely long, so finding specific articles would not be easy on this site.
-Apparent Bias: DeLong seems noticeably biased in his entries, and when he disagrees with one of the current events, he writes about it negatively.
Christine Nguyen, period 6
The Sports Economist
Content: The blog takes takes concepts from economics and gives examples of these concepts with a reference for sports to make understanding them easier.
Appearance: This blog looks like one of those 2005 beginning of the modern era of the internet type websites, or a teacher's personal website. Very basic color scheme and format, but simple enough to be able to navigate through the website for the most basic internet user.
Ease of Navigation: Simple, straight to the point, many links to similar websites found conveniently on the sidebar.
Apparent Bias: The author is passionate about sports and can sometimes get off topic.
Richard's Real Estate and Urban Economics Blog
Content: Content is not particularly in depth in a majority of the blog posts, posts are usually short summaries, and finally, the blog seems to have been abandoned by the author, as the last post was over 9 months ago.
Appearance: This blog looks very clean, content is well organized into categories, and there are plenty of links to other websites in the sidebar. Except that the sidebar rumbles, which is very annoying to look at.
Ease of navigation: Content is categorized by month and year in the sidebar, so it is very easy to jump to a specific blog post, links are all lined up well, everything seems very normal.
Apparent Bias: The author seems pissed and the most recent blog posts show his anger towards a variety of different subjects that he isn't happy about.
Jeffrey Zhou
6th
Jennie Chen 2nd Period
Infectious Greed and The Hearing
Infectious Greed
1)Content: A financial blog that is updated with twitter updates of the news around us.
2)Appearance: The blog looks very busy on the home page with its many twitter posts and bold headlines.
3)Ease of Navigation: The tabs are easy to access and the updates are posted by the month.
4)Apparent bias: There is not a particularly evident bias towards anything in his posts, however he does post a lot about large companies and what is happening with them.
The Hearing
1)Content: An economic policy debate from written opinionated articles.
2)Appearance: The page is on the Washington Post and it is very straightforward. The background is completely white, making it simple with only the words to stand out.
3)Ease of Navigation: The articles are all aligned and on one side with previous articles also under the current one for easy access.
4)Apparent bias: The articles lean towards a biased opinion of large corporate companies and how their money is spent. As well as having a strong opinion, they also state multiple things about health programs that many Americans debate about as well.
Cecil Sabu
Period 2
EconoSpeak and Free Exchange
1.) EconoSpeak
- Content: It consists of different authors and their opinions on various economics topics.
- Appearance: The site seems kind of bland and cluttered. However, there are some blogs that include diagrams and pictures.
- Ease of Navigation: Posts can be found through links based on month and title, and links to popular posts are on the side.
- Apparent Bias: Bias varies depending on author. Each author has their biases towards the topic that they are discussing.
2.) Free Exchange
- Content: This blog is about how to decide on which college to attend.
- Appearance: It seems more like an article than a blog. There is just one page with information about what to consider when picking colleges.
- Ease of Navigation: There isn’t much navigation that can be done. The site is just one page with a few links to other websites.
- Apparent Bias: The author may have incorporated his biases toward college based on his experiences.
Rachel Chang
2nd period
Greg Mankiw's Blog
Content-He discusses a wide variety of topics including corporate tax inversions, the brightest economists, and coase theorem
Appearance-the layout is white and simple, yet easy to read with large headings. His bio is conveniently placed on the right margin
Ease of Navigation-His links are easy to access, all located to the right under different subtitles
Apparent bias-He is a professor at Harvard University and does not appear to be very biased.
Robert Reich
Content-As a professor, he mainly focuses on school and education and the inequality he notices. He also branches off to broader topics such as the American democracy
Appearance-The website is not very colorful, but the page is completely filled until halfway to the bottom, where two-thirds is empty space
Ease of Navigation-it is relatively easy to navigate through his website, with text down the middle and videos to the right
Apparent bias-He discusses social classes a lot, and as a well-acclaimed author and chairman, his status/position may give his opinions a bias
Bethany Williams, period 2
The Economics Roundtable & Economics Logic
The Economics Roundtable
Content: It appears that there is plenty of good content, dealing with economics, such as news dealing with jobs, S&P, and developing countries. There is also content dealing with politics and laws that is found on this webpage.
Appearance: This site was bland and looks more like a mathematical website, due to the colors and the graph in the upper lefthand corner. The fonts used are easy to read.
Ease of Navigation: The site is easy to navigate due to the bookmark links at the top, such as Economics, Finance, Law, etc., and different models are found on the righthand side of the webpage.
Apparent Bias: There doesn't appear to be a bias due to the fact that most of his articles are written by someone else, and you can find each of his posted articles under links for the different people he gets them from.
Economics Logic
Content: There seems to be relevant and useful information dealing with the economy. He brings in useful outside information that is where he is forming his post from. However, the blogger hasn't posted in a while so there is no recent information. In past posts, he has discussed deflation in Japan, and tax refunds.
Appearance: The colors are neutral so it doesn't hurt your eyes, and there is not a lot of clutter making it easier to focus on what you are reading. The font on the margins is hard to read due to being very small, however.
Ease of Navigation: The different posts are separated by when they were written, which links to that are found in the left hand margin. It appears to be relatively easy to navigate this website and all the links found inside an article appear to work.
Apparent Bias: There doesn't appear to be a bias due to the blogger posting about a wide variety of subjects.
Stumbling and Mumbling
Club for Growth
Stumbling and Mumbling
Content: This blog seems to have a lot of information about many different topics. It addresses every aspect and kind of shows both sides to the story. It brings in other professional opinions in the blog post to add more to the story.
Appearance: The site is pretty plain. There aren’t pictures. It’s just post after post. There are also links to the side of the posts.
Ease of Navigation: This site is very easy to search. You just scroll to see all the posts. Throughout the text in the post, some words are highlighted with a link attached in case you don’t know what the word means or is referring to. There are also other links on the side of the blog.
Apparent Bias: This blog seems to be more liberal to me. It seems to support things that are bigger and more risky. For example, they support the government giving more money to banks and to rich people instead of the lower classes.
Club for Growth
Content: This blog seems to have good, strong content. They talk about what they are mainly about which is free enterprise and they bring a lot of information to the table.
Appearance: This website is an eye catcher! It has a picture and green and black as their main colors. There are words that are bold faced and little things that make it stand out.
Ease of Navigation: This website has tabs at the top where you click and it will take you to where you want to go. There is also a search bar at the bottom if you can’t find what you are looking for.
Apparent Bias: This website believes highly in free trade, good education for everyone, and spending control. I would say that it’s more of liberal beliefs than conservative, but I feel that there is a mixture of both.
Krista Killam
Period 6
#1 Economists Do It With Models
*Content- The blog more overly contains information pertaining to different news and stories that are floating around the world in subject to economics with the support of visually aids such as models, graphs, and charts. There are lots of political discussions and a lot of the topics lean towards ‘behavioral economics.
*Appearance: The site isn’t that very visually appearing as the background is simply white, however the post feeds are cluttered with different images and posts everywhere. The entire space isn’t used either as 2-3 inches of white space is left bare on both sides of the screen.
*Ease of Navigation: The site is more easy to navigate because of the various tabs/links set up at the top and since all the posts are posted on that home page, its easy to just scroll down and find all the posts according to their times.
*Apparent Bias: In various posts from the blogger he/she expresses his opinions from time to time as for example their most recent article: My Favorite Course Theorem Illustration is Taking Over The World.
#2 Manarin on Money
*Content: Most of the information posted on the blog are different perspectives that the writer has on economics. His recent posts are all about taking different courses of action to fix different issues in the economy.
*Appearance: The blog seems very simple and formal without any sort of visuals that really strikes the viewers with awe. The background is more of a shade of grey and the their logo of a bear and a bull are seen.
*Ease of Navigation: Unlike other blogs that I’ve seen, everything isn’t as clustered together. Different tabs and links are fully able to take you to different parts of the site and even the blog posts aren’t as numerous in trying to locate or find a specific post.
*Apparent Bias: Because the organization is one that seeks customers and future clients, there isn’t much bias seen in the blog based on its posts, but they do favor their organization in comparison to others.
Sherin Johnson
6th Period
Neuroeconomics and Institutional Economics.
*Neuroeconomics
Content: Neuroeconomics is a research program that strives to build a biological model of decision-making in economics.
Appearance: The site is very simple, to the point, and rather bland to be honest. There is nothing that catches the eye nor interest.
Ease of Navigation: The font is pretty small and it takes a bit of searching the home page to find where to find things but the blog is not too complicated.
Apparent bias: Biased in their experiments and theories. They believe that their own way is better.
*Institutional Economics
Content: A neo-classical approach to economics that looks at financial markets and the economy.
Appearance: The site attempts to look interesting by choosing blue as part of its color scheme, but the site remains bland and uninteresting.
Ease of Navigation: On the side are links to blogs and there is a search bar.
Apparent bias: The blog has a liberal view towards the economy and financial markers.
#1. WinterSpeak
Content: A blog that talks about how the latest technology affects the economy.
Appearance: A simple black and white website. It has a very boring layout.
Ease of Navigation: Very simple to use. A list of every blog entry is listed on the side.
Apparent Bias:It has several people on the blog arguing if the recent tech is hurting the economy or not.
#2. Sports Economist
Content: A blog that entries how sports affects the economy.
Appearance:It has a professional look with some style.
Ease of Navigation: Very easy to use. Has a search bar and links to their articles. Also headlines at the top.
Apparent Bias:Not much bias because it just shows articles from the news that affects the sports economy.
Amitabha Mitra
6th Period
The Prudent Investor and Harvard International Review
The Prudent Investor
Content: This blog primarily examines financial and political news to inform the public about the downsides to current economic models.
Appearance: The website seems a little plain with its plain colors and unused space. Most of the articles are accompanied by video that help grasp the subject of the article.
Ease of Navigation: The site has a search bar and quick links on the side. It does seem a little cluttered and the font is small but it is readable.
Apparent Bias: The blog predominantly focuses on the world in conservative sense. The articles submitted talk about how all the various things world governments are doing wrong.
Harvard International Review
Content: The blog centers on economic study from the opinions and view of members of the academic, professional, and international communities.
Appearance: The website is very clean and professional to look at. It is pleasant to the eyes with its color theme of black and red while still staying minimalistic in its framework.
Ease of Navigation: The website is very easy to navigate intertwining various tabs and recent articles on the side. It also has a search bar and news feed at the top.
Apparent Bias: I don’t think there is a bias because it partially relies on the users interacting with the articles by asking questions at the end. Therefor they present the news without bias to get an accurate response from the readers.
Steve Philip
6th Period
Jacqueline Gann
2nd Period
The BIg Picture & Seeking Alpha
The BIg Picture:
1) Content: Blog posts from the author, Ritholtz, about what he, as a money manager, looks at.
2) Appearance: The blog is neither bland or interesting, it is average, everything has its place and it is organized.
3) Ease of Navigation: Everything is in its place and it is easy to find everything because of the well organized side bar.
4) Apparent bias: There is no obvious bias by the author, it just seems as if he is trying to inform the reader and get them to think as he does as a money manager.
Seeking Alphas
1) Content: The blog consists of graphs and data regarding the market at well as news stories and articles linked to it to try and help the reader understand and predict changes in the market.
2) Appearance: It is very organized although there are a lot of things on the page it is not overwhelming.
3) Ease of Navigation: It is very easy to navigate, the titles make the square even more easy to use.
4) Apparent bias: The multiple sources for articles and news stories allow for no out standing bias to be shown.
1. Economics Unbound
Content: Blog entires include a wide variety from global economies to polite to lifestyle. Everything topic is also thoroughly discussed.
Appearance: The site has many colorful tabs that catch your attention of the home page which is great. Each article also has a related picture which keeps it interesting!
Ease of navigation: when you first enter sight there are several pop ups, but after continuously pressing the "X" button the colorful tabs and headers take you exactly where you want to go and show you exactly what you need.
Apparent Bias: There is no apparent bias at first glance of this blog. Since it covers several different topics several journalist and economist have their own openings and say. I think it balances out because of the vase amount of entires sharing both sides.
2. Tea With FT
Content: This blog covers all things economics; people,places, and things. He keeps his entries short and sweet but still full of information which makes for an interesting read.
Appearance: This site is very boring and unappealing to look at, i don't know whats worst, the awful blue letters and red hyperlinks against the yellowish-brown back ground our the countless number of picture of his grandchildren that have nothing to do with his blog about ECONOMICS.
Ease of Navigation: His blog is very simple. His entries are listed directly on the home page listed by date. all you have to do is click next or search. Simplicity!
Apparent Bias: He is "A FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE WORLD BANK" which is the first thing listed on every page so, while he may know a lot he might be more inclined to side with them.
Briona Caruthers
6th Period
Ashish Jain 4th
Japan Economy Watch & Money and Policy
1)Japan Economy Watch-
Content: Basically an ongoing analysis of the Japanese Economy including their population crisis and what it has to do with the economy.
Appearance: Kind of like a Wikipedia page with no tabs on the top and more and more information as you scroll further down
Ease of Navigation: Not to hard to navigate... Although there are no tabs at the top, before starting another topic or section, bold typed letters provide information about it.
Apparent Bias: Not too biased. More of an informational sight about the Japan economy
2)Money and Policy-
Content: Part of a New York Times page and it looks like it focuses primarily on healthcare and medicine
Appearance: A bunch of articles put together on one page, not really any tabs for it
Ease of Navigation: pretty easy, just one click of a button away from reading the article you wish to learn more about.
Apparent Bias: Also not too much on the bias side, more focused towards facts about the Healthcare system.
Christian Do
4th Period
Marginal Revolution & The Idea Shop
Marginal Revolution
1)Content: It's a Blog by Tyler Cowen on a multitude of subjects about economy or something close to it such as agriculture, minimum wage, and globalization.
2)Appearance: Basically a blog that Tyler Cowen uses to re-post interesting information that he found and wants to share as well as adding in his opinion to some.
3)Ease of Navigation: Overall it's just scrolling down to find more posts, and no pictures.
4)Apparent Bias: Overall, he's just re-posting links to interviews and quotes, he doesn't really have an apparent bias in my opinion.
The Idea Shop
1)Content: A whole lot of math and formulas dealing with economics and algebra
2)Appearance: Overall, it includes pictures, formulas, and instructions so it is actually quite informative, but nothing too extraordinary.
3)Ease of Navigation: Simple, just scroll down to learn more math. pictures and formulas do help learning a bit more.
4)Apparent Bias: None, it's an informative website dedicated on educating visitors about math ranging from algebra, to calculus and stats which in our case, the math also happens to deal with economics.
Vox Baby
1)Content: A blog written by a professor of economics that talks about politics, economics, and events that take place between both subjects.
2)Apperance: One big picture and then everything else is really plain, but has a lot of different information.
3)Ease of Navigation: Very simple it has all the tabs on the side for whatever information you want to read and is very organized.
4)Apparent Bias: He expresses his opinions very deeply and openly.
Calculated Risk
1)Content: Shows information throughout every day on what is going on not really a lot to read.
2) Apperance: Very plain has a few pictures for some days.
3) Ease of Navigation: Not complicated at all has the past days informations on the side and then the future days information.
4) Apparent Bias: None, just and informative blog on what is going on everyday in the economy.
Julie Joy
6th Period
Karen George
6th period
I did William J. Polley and Organizations and Markets
William J. Polley
1.Content- William J. Polley speaks of the concern of free trade becoming a problem for jobs in America and how some jobs are becoming offshore.
2.Appearance- The site looks boring to the reader's eye. It's just green and white with information.
3.Ease of Navigation-There is an archives tab that directs you to the blogs and posts the author has done every month.
4.Apparent Bias- Some economists believe that free trade is good for the nation and helps the economy while others argue that jobs are being effected by the free trade.
Organizations and Markets
1. Content-This article speaks of how technology is advancing in society and different programs that are to be added to help in the business side of things.
2. Apperance- Has a lot more color and different tabs for different articles. Very appealing to the eye!
3. Ease of navigation- The link sent me right to the article so it was not difficult to find. There is also a search bar for further articles.
4. Apparent Bias- This article seems very neutral because it is comparing the pros and cons of the advancement in technology.
Karen George
6th period
Muizz Soomar (NPW)
2nd Period
#1: Market Power
Content: This blog consists of different writings from several economist who talk about the power of markets
Appearance: Usually when I see blogs, I think of boring pages with several pages of writing, but this blog consists of various videos and picture which grab my attention.
Ease of Navigation: This blog is very east to navigate through, it has search bars and many different topics on the side bars that you can choose to read from. They also have social networking so you can keep updated with them on facebook, twitter, etc.
Apparent Bias: The writers of this blog have their own viewpoints on the subject that they are talking about.
#2: MaxSpeak
Content: This blog consists of current economic issues that are occurring. They discuss different current events.
Appearance: This blog uses color and different pictures. It makes a reader more intrigued to reading the different topics instead of a boring and bland blog
Ease of Navigation: The blog is fairly easy to navigate, there are recent topics on the side bar and random topics on the other bar. All the topics are dated and ordered by date.
Apparent Bias: This blog will have various biases because the author make think of an event in such a way and other people may think differently about the subject.
Jacob John
6th Period
Cold Spring Shops
1) CONTENT- This site includes reviews of events including economic events that are occurring around the world.
2) APPEARANCE- The site is just one long page with hyperlinks to the left side, it is very simple and basic.
3) EASE OF NAVIGATION- There is not much to navigate around to except the hyperlinks to certain specific topics to the left side.
4) APPARENT BIAS- Responses are varied based on the topic of the post sometimes being negative towards the gov't to being positive about life.
Thoughts on Economics
1) CONTENT- This blog is abstract and is mainly critical of neoclassical and mainstream economics.
2) APPEARANCE- The blog is simple but just right with everything organized and placed strategically.
3) EASE OF NAVIGATION- This blog includes a search bar and is a long strip page with older entries first and hyperlinks to labels on the right clustered.
4) APPARENT BIAS- This site is steered towards the mathematics side of economics and consists of abstract topics with various views.
Midwest economy & Truck and Barter
Content- Blog entries about the Midwest economy. lot of details on regional economies
Appearance- lots of words and a few pictures
Ease of navigation- it was pretty laid out and there were a lot of blog entries
Apparent bias- each blogger had their own bias and opinion. i thought the overall bias was neutral
#2
Content- talks about how politics affect the economy
Appearance- too many words and no
pictures
Ease of navigation- it was an easy read and easy to scroll
Apparent Bias. they bloggers seem to be biases in their thinking. they believe that politics affects our economy
Minh Le
3rd Period
Abnormal Returns:
Content- Founded by Tadas Viskanta, Abnormal Returns strives to bring the best of the financial blogosphere to readers everywhere.
Appearance- The blog website has a very simple layout. The links are in red while the texts are in black, giving it an appealing look to the white background of the site.
Ease of Navigation- The blog is formatted similar to other blogs on the internet. Meaning the latest post is at the top and is the largest, while previous blog entries are below in chronological order. Also, the color code of text and link make it easy to navigate.
Apparent Bias- Because the blog is edited by Viskanta, the blog entries have clear bias to his ideals that were published in his book. One of the most obvious is the suggestion that investors should not watch the market on a second to second basis, and that investing should be made with confidence and patience.
Liberal Order:
Content- The blog features some advertisement of certain services. Does not appear to be an information based blog, but rather a blog that helps small businesses get their name out.
Appearance- The blog has a very nice green color to it. Not bad to look at.
Ease of Navigation- The blog has entries listed in chronological order. On top of that, the limited amount of entries make the blog extremely easy to navigate.
Apparent Bias- The blog has obvious bias to the services/small businesses that use the blog to get their name out.
I did Globalisation and the Environment and Ask Edgeworth
#1-Globalisation and the Environment
Content: Blog entries by economist about international and environmental topics.
Appearance: The site is very interesting. You first see pictures representing the economic environmental issues, and then there are blogs at the bottom each talking about different issues. Although, the site would have been more easily accessible with tabs.
Ease of Navigation: Overall it is easy to navigate, although, the categories on the side make it a little confusing since there are so many.
Apparent Bias: The blogger clearly believes the the bad economy is to blame for the natural changes in he environment, for instance, the climate change.
#2-Ask Edgeworth
Content: This is a blog for daily current events.
Appearance: I love the way this site is laid out. The new current events are on the righ side of the page with a column in the middle with different blogs and then the old current events are on the left side of the site.
Ease of Navigation: This site is easily navigable since everything is seen clearly.
Apparent Bias: The blogger just seems to give his opinion on current issues, he isn't really bias toward any side or anything.
Shivani Doshi
2nd Period
Tosin Olabinjo
4th period
Knowledge Problem and 10Q Detective
Knowledge Problem
1) Content: Lynne Kiesling and Michael Giberson write articles about news, theories, trends, and questions in the world of economics.
2) Appearance: The site looks fairly simple (maybe a bit boring) and is well organized.
3) Ease of Navigation: This sites use of categories, a search bar, and an archive in the form of a calendar allows for simple straightforward navigation of the site. It shouldn't be hard to find what you're looking for.
4) Apparent bias: In their answers to some questions the authors try to support the opinion they hold, but in doing so they often make sure to mention the other side of the argument.
10Q Detective
1) Content: The author David J. Phillips writes articles about innovative businesses in various industries.
2) Appearance: The site is fairly colorful and the background is eye catching. However, I feel that it could be organized better.
3) Ease of Navigation: This site also features a search bar and it uses a drop down list style archive. It would be nice if it had a list of categories or tags that I could look through. Despite that however, navigation is alright.
4) Apparent bias: There is some bias in that the author is intentionally attempting to present the businesses he writes about in a positive light. However, he does try to present the unbiased quantitative facts in most cases.
Nikhil Njaravelil
Period 4
China Economics Blog:
Content- this blog was written by Robert Eliot economist, with an interest in the Chinese economy and its local and global implications.
Appearance- The blog has a lot of information on it with the nice red color on it.
Ease of Navigation- Everything is pretty much in one page with link you can open up.
Apparent Bias- their isn't much bias in this blog.
Tim Worstall:
Content- Founded by Tim Worstall, pretty much talks about random topics
Appearance- It looks nice everything is laid out perfectly.
Ease of Navigation- Their is a lot of entries in this blog but it is easy to find all of them because its all in one page
Apparent Bias- has bias towards every blog he writes.
Jasmine Luke
6th period
1. The Idea Shop
Content: The blog talks about the mathematical aspects of economics for the educated economist.
Appearance: The appearance is overwhelming because all I see is formulas all over the place and how to use them.
Ease of Navigation: It is hard to navigate because you cant see older posts you have to manually scroll down to see all his posts.
Apparent Bias: There is no apparent bias because the blogger is not putting his opinion, simply stating proofs and mathematical formulas widely accepted.
2.Truck and Barter
Content: The Blogger talks down about big-time corporations and how there is an element of corruption within big corporations.
Appearance: The site is straight to the point, but the title seems irrelevant, I was expecting something a little more exciting to look at.
Ease of Navigation: The site is easy to navigate because you can easily find blogs based on the topic or date.
Apparent Bias: The blogger is biased towards corporations. He does not explain all the reasons for the economic actions of a company.
1) Ecological Economics 2) The Angry Economist
Ecological Economics (Ecology and Economics)
1) Content: Blog entries about recent technological advances, many which have to do with finding new energy sources, and the economy's ability to support them.
2) Appearance: very unconventional/unprofessional, entries are organized chronologically by date but aren't really put under categories.
3) Ease of Navigation: the front page is a little confusing, the only good thing is that it's newest to oldest (as you scroll down). There are tabs on the side which are easier to use.
4) Apparent bias: The authors seem to be criticizing the ecological aspects of new technology, which in turn, leads to a negative economic outlook.
The Angry Economist
1) Content: Harsh critiques of recent global issues and their effects on the world economy.
2) Appearance: seems to be run by one person. Disorganizes, with the only archive/category tabs being dates (not subtopics).
3) Ease of Navigation: Because there are no other tabs, it is more difficult to navigate. Even the pyeecon blog looks much more professional (and respectful) than it!
4) Apparent bias: As the name suggests, the author writing often has a very negative outlook on certain policies. He voices his opinion using strong vernacular language, allowing his opinion to become clear to even the common people.
*whoops. Forgot to put that I was in 6th period. -Yvonne Thong
**did I say 6th??!! I meant 2nd, sorry! -Yvonne Thong
1)Agoraphilla
Content:Blg entries by the same people, Glen Whitmen and Tom Bell, talking about what is happening in the economy now and their opinions towards it. This blog also includes links to more of Whitmen and Bell's favorite posts.
Appearance: This site's design is very straight forward and very boring, with little color.
Ease of Navigation: It is very easy to direct yourself through this site because everything is simplified. There is their post in one feed then a side column of other links.
Apparent Bias: This blog is clearly bias because their post are often stating their perspectives of certain topics and sometimes involve personal situations.
2)Harvard International Review
Content:Blog entries written by students, professors and researched of Harvard, mainly about current even most of which is connected to how it effects the economy.
Appearance: This blog is very sophisticated looking, everything is very organized but also comes with a search box in case.
Ease of Navigation: Fairly easy to navigate through the tabs but if a reader gets lost they can always use the search bar or look through the archive.
Apparent Bias: Because the blog entries have all different writers, their posts are clearly going to be bias to their opinions along with stated facts of current events.
Aiah Tisha Ebueng
2nd Period
Jocelyn Dang
6th period
Dr. Housing Bubble & Let's Fly Under the Bridge
#1: Dr. Housing Bubble
1) Content: The blog entries focus on the housing market in various areas throughout Southern California, focusing on the price increases and decreases in comparison to what the price tag offers. Also, it studies the amount of interest sellers are able to get and the percentage of buyers' income that buyers are needing to spend on housing.
2) Appearance: The blog is filled with advertisements all over the site, and its overall design is very bland and simple with no creativity.
3) Ease of Navigation: There is an archives area that allows readers to read blog entries from certain months. But there is no organization between topics on certain areas of Southern California. Immediately, the blog shows its entries from latest to past entries.
4) Apparent bias: There is no major bias, besides the fact that the blogger comments negatively on the high prices of the California market and positively on the lifestyle/setting of the housing. Besides that, the blog gives a neutral study on the housing market with a few side remarks.
#2: Let's Fly Under the Bridge
1)Content: The blog entries by Roland Patrick focus on daily events/economic news, where he reports them, while giving a few side comments of his own, adding humor and condescending thoughts on the event. The topics range from news about the automobile market to government involvement in business.
2)Appearance: The blog is very simple with a clean, white design. It's not exactly eye-catching, but it is pleasant to look at.
3)Ease of Navigation: There is a side bar with links to the different months and the titles of blog entries, which make it easier for the readers to find what they want to read about. However, it does not exactly separate the blog entries by topic, which causes readers to look through each potentially interesting blog entry before finding one they like.
4)Apparent Bias: There is a slight bias in Roland Patrick's blog entries because he reports economic news from the standpoint of an American, being affected by economic disasters or boosts. Whether he is directly affected or not, he still reports it in a way that he shows his thoughts if the economic event did directly affect him.
Divya Joseph
6th Period
1)Let's Fly Under The Bridge
Content-Blog entries by Patrick Sullivan talking about the day's news and events.
Appearance-The apperance is bland but the layout overall is good.
Ease of Navigation-The blogs are easy to navigate because there are dates on the side that you can just click on to find a blog.
Apparent bias-The author who posts all the blogs as a neagtive outlook on almost all his posts about alot of the past.
2)SCSU Scholars
Content-this blog publishes posts about economic policy
Appearance-The website is attractive to the eye because there is color and pictures.
Ease of Navigation-There are dates on the side to help find blogs from a certain day but it would be better if there was a search bar.
Apparent bias-The bloggers all are from a conservative point of view.
Sylvester Inyang
2nd Period
#1:Coyote Blog
Content-The blog is about current events going on and they are written by different people
Appearance-Not appealing, the blogs are too bunched up.
Ease of Navigation- easy to use, on the right hand side there are links to dates.
Apparent Bias- I didn't really see a bias since the blogs were diverse
#2:Richard’s Real Estate and Urban Economics Blog
Content- It was very similar to the 1st blog i read, it has a lot of current news and ran by Richard green
Appearance- Very easy to read and navigate
Ease of Navigation- very easy on a scale of 1-10 a 9
Apparent Bias- More bias to Richard Green's point of views
1) PETER GORDON:
-Content: All of Peter Gordon's blog post is written by him. He writes an combination of economics and urban planning/Real Estate. Also, he recommends movies and books.
-Appearance: It has a nice cream background with black 12 sized font. The titles are red. It's really use to read.
-Ease of Navigation: The basic design of the blog makes it really easy to navigate through.
-Apparent bias: I think Peter Gordon isn't biased. Every blog entry is different and he has sources. Also he pulls blog subjects from newspapers and every day events.
2) Thomas Palley
-Content: All of Thomas Palley's blog post are written by him. He blog is about economic arrangements and conditions that are needed to promote democracy and open society.
-Appearance: The background is white with black 12 sized font. It's very plain and boring.
-Ease of Navigation: The simplicity of the blog makes it very easy to navigate through. There are tabs on the right that takes to his biography, articles, research, and contact pages.
-Apparent bias: I think Thomas Palley sides against the government and is on the constant look out for a mistake from them. He is on the public's side and economic policies that will help us.
- AMANDA SHAH
PERIOD 4
Timothy Krauhs
Period 6
1. Adam Smith Institute
Content: The blog is mostly focused on the U.K. economic issues in the current time.
Appearance: The sight holds a lot of information and the site has on some parts a bland look with decent graphics.
Ease of Navigation: The are many tabs, but the menu lumps the topics together by month rather then subject.
Apparent Bias: The site doesn't seems like the economy spending money on social services such as child services.
2. The Liberal Order
Content: This blog seems to contain no relevant information of economics.
Appearance: It tries a natural looks that just looks ugly.
Ease of Navigation: There is no form of a search bar so you will just have to hope to find what your looking for somewhere.
Apparent Bias: It is liberal website with a liberal view if anything economics were to be written.
Fabian Romo 4th period
American Association of Wine Economists & MV=PQ
#1- American Association of Wine Economists
Content:A website which focuses on the business of Wine, explaining as well as giving tips on how to store wine and manage it and gives insiders to people looking to start a business as well as a video and some pictures.
Appearance: The website has a very simple, white background while the left hand side of the website has a main topic while on the right hand side breaks the main topic into sub-categories.
Ease of Navigation: It is probably the simplest website I have ever seen, all you need to do is scroll up and down and read the information that is given.
Apparent Bias: The only bias I would say there is, is that of the admin's because it is their own personal opinions and tips on the business but there are some generalizations to some of the topics.
#2- MV=PQ
Content: The blog is laid out by different entries from the same author about different aspects of economics and how it relates to a variety of topics.
Appearance: The blog is very dull in my opinion and simple. There is a break from the left side, where there is links for readings, sub-categories, and the blog archive, while the right side gives you the entries.
Ease of Navigation: The implementation of the side links allows you to focus your search by giving certain topics and makes it easier to get what you're looking for. Also, the blog entries is simply scrolling down and clicking on the link that says "older posts" to view more.
Apparent Bias: Being that there is only one author posting these entries, that would give me the idea that his entries are solely his opinions on the matter of things, however, comments on his entries are allowed so it opens things up to discussion.
Zachary Frazier 2nd Period
VoluntaryXChange
Content: they post content about different and sometimes random topics that are trending in the US.
Appearance: the site looks kinda ratchet it has a bland and mediocre look to it. Kinda looks like its going to give my computer a virus.
Ease of Navigation: there are no links to other pages just you scroll down and read what they post.
Apparent Bias: they are taking what new anchors and journalist are saying and pointing out the stupidity and wrongfulness.
Taxprof Blog
Content: Basically they post big new stories about the economy and what might happen to it in the up coming days because of something.
Appearance: it looks like a real and well thought out and planned site. Looks like a professional news site.
Ease of Navigation: Very easy to use. Scroll down to see more stories and you can click on links to take you to other pages on the same topic.
Apparent Bias: Most of the articles are written by the same guy so what ever his bias is, is the one that the readers are reading.
Brian Huynh
4th Period
Heavy Lifting & Reality Economics
Heavy Lifting
1) Content : An economist who shares his opinions and keeps it short and sweet with his posts.
2) Appearance : Very bland with a white background but simple.
3) Ease of Navigation : Fairly easy but link are very small and cramped.
4) Apparent Bias : There is not much due to the blogger's use of pictures and graphs.
Reality Economics
1) Content : Very focused on the middle class but also talks about technology and meetings.
2) Appearance : The green is like a lime green and can be distracting.
3) Ease of Navigation : Very simple but the font is small and can be difficult to read.
4) Apparent Bias : Towards the middle class and not talking about the higher classes.
Samantha Fonseca
4th Period
Economic Dreams, Economic Nightmares
1. Content: Blog entries discuss current economic policies and the economic decisions of policy makers, wall street executives and investors.
2. Appearance: The website is very bland and boring. It does not look organized and looks kind of cluttered.
3. Ease of Navigation: Although everything looks unorganized, the tabs on the side of the page make it simple to navigate.
4. Apparent Bias: The blog reflects only the opinions of the author and those who comment.
OMB Watch
1. Content: The website conducts research and policy analyses and focuses on encouraging citizen participation and government accountability.
2. Appearance: The website is very formal and organized.
3. Ease of Navigation: The website is very easy to navigate with tabs that are very specific and straightforward.
4. Apparent Bias: The website is run by an organization that provides current event and blog entries focusing only on its own objectives.
I did Businomics Blog and Truck and Barter.
A. Businomics Blog
1. Content: There are mainly interesting and questioning articles that makes people think about economics in different ways.
2. Appearance: The blog itself could be made better because it looks bland with the only colors being white and blue, but uses images filling in people desire's of wanting to have pictures in whatever they are reading.
3. Ease of Navigation: The most interesting articles are put up front and links to other recent articles on the side. There is category of topics, so people can look at articles on just economics, health care, or whatever they please.
4. Apparent Bias: There does not seem to be too much bias, but in the recent articles shown says nothing wrong about current economics.
B. Truck and Barter
1. Content: Mostly about things like education, pricing, markets, healthcare, etc. affect or being affected by economy. The blog does not seem to be update and probably has not been visited by the author for a while. The most recent post was from 2011.
2. Appearance: Very formal with only white and red as background color.
3. Ease of Navigation: Categories are listed on the side and are put in order by date, there is a search bar to look up specific articles.
4. Apparent Bias: Many of the articles visited looks like apparent bias towards higher decisions made by market leaders and how they are affecting the common people negatively or could be improved.
-Chris Sani
2nd period.
1. Cafe Hayek
Content: The governments response to 9/11 attacks was to intensify the "war on drugs"
Appearance: The site has a typical black and gray appearance. Also includes a picture
Ease of navigation: The navigation of the blog site was extremely easy, the article was the first thing to show when opening the link.
Apparent bias: The site shows a bias to individuals who do believe there is a connection.
2. Crooked Timber
Content: The perspectives of individuals from different periods of time
Appearance: The site has a black background making it's appearance a bit dark. Photo album is the first thing to come up.
Ease of navigation: The site makes it easy to find any entry's or comments on the site.
Apparent bias: Not everyone is the same. There just using information they believe is correct.
Joshua Joseph 6th period
Sheryl Machado
6th Period
A fistful of Euros and A Dash of Insight.
Dash of Insight:
1) Content: Blog entries that discuss economic and international news in the society.
2) Appearance: Very bland, many ads on the side.
3) Ease of navigation: Very easy, different tabs to go where desired.
4) Apparent bias: Author is very general about his thoughts, but is very biased when talking about other peoples thoughts and ideas.
A Fistful of Euros
1) Content: Blog entries combined with news entries by European countries.
2) Appearance: Sort of artsy, not very.
3) Ease of navigation: Very easily laid out, for different topics and such.
4) Apparent Bias: Lots of different opinions can be seen through many articles, discusses many news, but is biased about European news. Also, very straightforward and upfront about issues.
I did Club for Growth and
Club for Growth:
Content: 100,000 pro-growth, limited government Americans who believe that prosperity and opportunity come from economic freedom.
Appearance: It isn’t very appealing to the eye. The color scheme is black, green and white, with this weird looking font. Has a cartoon that says “Tell Lawmakers: To stop parroting Obama”
Apparent Bias: upholding basic economic conservative principle
Eclectecon:
Content: A Canadian economics professor examining economics from a non-U.S.centric point of view
Appearance: It is appealing to the eye, and is easy to navigate.
Apparent Bias: The way no bias that was noticeable to me
Allison Hermes
2nd Period
1) New Economist
•Content: Gives broad perspective of the world economy
•Appearance: Very organized in general, however, the posts are very outdated, as it was last updated in 2012
•Ease of Navigation: Very simple to navigate across the page; Posts are organized by how recently they were posted
•Apparent bias: No apparent bias, author seems to have neutral opinions
2) Aspiring Economist
•Content: A second year graduate student shares thoughts on general economics topics
•Appearance: Organized; Blogs tend to be a few paragraphs long and offer in depth/personal thought; Again, is very outdated, last updated in 2010
•Ease of Navigation: Relatively easy
•Apparent bias: Depends on topic discussed, has biased opinion to subjects he agrees upon
- Joshua Roy
2nd Period
Luke Emery
6th Period
Business Pundit and Reasonable Bystanders
Business Pundit
1) Content: Contains articles focused on current economic issues and how entrepreneurs and businesses (big and small) are run.
2) Appearance: The site has very normal colors, nothing outlandish. The links for articles and archives are scattered and all over the place, which becomes confusing.
3) Ease of Navigation: There is a search bar, and a categories section, but the numerous random links all over the place make it a little confusing.
4) Apparent Bias: The articles tend to be more conservative, although it isn't extremely apparent.
Reasonable Bystanders
1) Content: Blog entries that are about criticizing economic strategy and pointing out faults in plans. Also about energy and environment.
2) Appearance: Very plain, brown background with cream column, all in one vertical stripe.
3) Ease of Navigation: Pretty straight forward, all blog are contained on one page, but there are links to blogs on the page.
4) Not really biased towards any side, just more of an individual thinker; likes to criticize things they don't agree with.
Daniel W. Drezner
Content:Various stories about things going on around today's society.
Appearance:The site is organized by each story with a headline, picture, then the topic information.
Ease of Navigation:Very easy to navigate through thier topic subjects with the use of the search bar and categories.
Apparent Bias:Each storyline seems to have thier own bias based on the story.
Mahalanobis
Content:Different economic therories about what has been going on in the U.S. economy and what's been influencing these trends.
Appearance:The blog looks basic and boring, yet it holds an abundant amout of information and statistics that are interesting.
Ease of Navigation:More difficlut to navigate then Daniel W. Drezner because it lacks a lacks a search bar, and the only way to nanvigate is through reading all the topic subjects.
Apparent Bias:The site compares the two biases in multiple situations, so there isn't much of an apparent bias.
-Brayden Theriot
4th Period
Justin Hoang
6th Period
Freakonomics and Ben Muse
1)Freakonomics:
Content- The blog consists of many short articles relating to current events and issues.
Appearance- It was interesting because there was an audio under each article.
Ease of Navigation- The blog was evenly spaced out which made it simple to navigate through each article.
Apparent bias- This blog was bias because the author was giving his opinions on each article.
2)Ben Muse:
Content- this blog is about the history of the Salt Box cottage colony.
Appearance- The pictures made the blog more appealing to look at.
Ease of Navigation- Overall, it was well organized and had tabs and links on the left side.
Apparent Bias- The blog did not have any bias but just facts on the cottage colony.
An Nguyen; Period 2
1. Japan Economy Watch
-Content: Blog entries concerning Japan's economic conditions and how the country's aging population may contribute to it's current economic problems.
-Appearance: Very simple, basic layout. Charts and graphs are eye-catching.
-Ease of Navigation: The site is well organized, so that the reader can navigate to blogs about the economies of different continents and countries.
-Apparent Bias: The blogger concentrates on how the Japanese economy is not doing well, and refutes the rises in the country's economy.
2. Thoughts On Economics
-Content: The blog discusses a variety of economic theories and analyzes different views on economic ideas.
-Appearance: Simple, straight forward layout. All the entries look like one long entry.
-Ease of Navigation:Efficient navigation with labels that separate all entries into more general topics for the reader to browse.
-Apparent Bias: The blogger only writes about the errors in certain economic theories, and focuses more on the mathematical calculations of these ideas.
Christian Beduya
6th Period
The Prudent Investor and The Angry Ecnomist.
The Prudent Investor:
Content: Contains US Debt clock, World Market Watch, Precious Metals Production, Crude Oil Clock, contains blog posts about some of the more serious issues concerning the economy and resources.
Appearance: Is very busy, articles are easily read, overall needs much work on clarity and positioning of articles.
Ease of navigation: It seems as though it is very hard to navigate. Only a search bar and no other categories to choose from. Straightforward on only posts and articles.
Apparent Bias: No apparent bias. However the overall tone of the blog is very angry specifically at the media.
The Angry Economist.
Content: Includes blog posts about what seems to be anything that can form an interesting discussion from Libya to Prostitution legality.
Appearance: Looks very clean and not at all very cluttered. Every posts is laid straightforward and separated appropriately. No colors are too distracting just uses black, white, and green.
Ease of Navigation: ery easy to navigate with tabs and links on the left-hand side. You just click on what date you want to see and it will take you there. Very easy index. No search bar.
Apparent Bias: Bias is for liberals and against Conservatives in a very furious attitude. Other than that everything else concerning foreign afairs seem to be balanced.
Joel Thomas 4th Period
Statistical Modeling and Real Time Economics
#1 - Statistical Modeling
Content: A user named Andrew replies to questions sent to the blog with descriptive analysis including economical teachings.
Appearance: Basic web page that's white and blue; very simple.
Ease of Navigation: It's one page that you can scroll down with questions and comments on the right side where you can pick any question you want.
Apparent Bias: Andrew uses more of a philosophical approach rather than an economical style of teaching others the answers to their questions.
#2 - Real Time Economics
Content: A board from the people of The Wall Street Journal that contains several articles posted daily on topics concerning Economics.
Appearance: An obviously well organized blog that consists of teams working with other blogs on the wall street journal. (a white background with many other articles circling around the site).
Ease of Navigation: One entire board filled with articles. You can click on an article to view it on a separate page. User friendly.
Apparent Bias: Seeing that this is from the Wall Street Journal, there can be no possible way for there to be a biased article unless it was posted unsupervised. Because The Wall Street Journal consists of a team there is no way it can be biased.
Joel Thomas
4th Period
I did Welker's Wikinomics and Winter Economic and Market Watch
Welker's Wikinomics:
Content- Blog talks about about what economics is about, and gives examples about what some students thought econ was about.
Appearance- pretty boring looking, but had a lot of information and links on it
Ease of Navigation- because of all the links, it's kind of difficult to find what specific thing you're looking for.
Apparent Bias- I don't think there is any bias on this blog
Winter Economic and Market Watch
Content-
Appearance- it is connected to the authors twitter. Blog entries about the latest economic news from around the world.
Ease of Navigation- organized, easy to find thongs on. has an official look to it besides the twitter part.
Apparent Bias- this blogger does not seem to have any bias on his blog.
-Caroline Van Nuis
6th period
I did Econbrowser and Coyote Blog.
#1-Econbrowser
Content: Blog provides viewpoints on economic conditions now, along with the policy of economics currently. Many replies from bloggers on each post.
Appearance: Extremely dull. Only white with blue lettering. No emblems or photos or change of fonts at all.
Ease of Navigation: It is simple to navigate the site, there is a drop down menu to select the topic of the blogs.
Apparent Bias: Many agree that the US has become more efficient in production and will continue to do so. Also lots of people seem to think that it has become harder for a small buisiness to become a large one.
#2- Coyote Blog
Content: Blogs about the main politics as most blogs do, but focuses on the climates as well as national parks around the globe.
Appearance: Very appealing. This website took some time and effort and is very appealing to the reader.
Ease of Navigation: Fairly easy. The reader can easily select their topic and even have their twitter and facebook available in the margin.
Apparent Bias: One bias on this site is that this has been the coolest summer temperature wise in about 15 years. Most people are saying that next years summer will be even cooler than this years.
Justin Freker
4th Period
I. Buisness Blog:
1) Consists of information about the US economy as well as the average person's perception of it
2) It is not really all that pretty
3) It has lots of links to various articles that the blogger talks about
4) it doesn'e appear to be biased
II. The Big Picture:
1) Consists of post that have to do with things like the current state of the economy, things that might change the stocks, and even news of leisure
2) This blog is very nice and laid logically
3) Easy to navigate, just have to scroll down
4) Again I can't see any apparent biases. The article are written by a team opf people probably helping to keep the bias as low as possible
Abel Menezes
2nd Period
Troy Lilly 6th period
Atlantic Blog & Musings of a Thoughtful Conservative
Atlantic Blog:
1)Content: Very interesting blog but had little to do with economics and more to do with health issues.
2)Appearance: The website is very easy to follow and read. It was nicely formatted.
3)Ease of Navigation: very convenient for finding important and interesting posts. For the most part I only had to scroll down.
4)Apparent Bias: There did not seem to be much bias. A lot of facts and advice listing out both pros and cons.
Musings of a Thoughtful Conservative:
1)Content: Blog posts by a christian conservative talking about random issues he finds the need to talk about.
2)Appearance: I did not like the appearance of the website, as it seemed to be a jumble of random articles.
3)Ease of Navigation: Even navigation seemed more complicated compared to other blogs. There was very little help in navigating through the very random articles.
4)Apparent Bias: This blog gets about as biased as it gets. He only takes the side of a christian conservative and does not seem to understand both sides of any issue.
Hey Justin, both those blogs are chosen. It would be wise to consider choosing new articles.:)
#1- General Glut’s Globblog
Content- Blog entries by an economist about employment, finances, and dystopia 2003 to 2007
Appearance-It is very boring and the colors used makes it hard to look at for awhile.
Ease of Navigation- It is easy with all posts being accessible by a scroll bar. Also it has links to other blogs on the side.
Apparent Bias- The blogger tends to stick to his own bias faithfully about the trends of employment rates
#2-Deinonychus antirrhopus
Content- Bloggers who respond to answered questions by others on taxes, votes, and other events happening in our government and economy
Appearance- A very bland website that has words jumbled up on top of each other making some words harder to read than others
Ease of Navigation- Blog links with four line previews of the blogs makes it easier to decide on which blog you want to read
Apparent Bias- There is a strong bias in any topic the blogger brings up. Their personal opinion is very evident in all topics.
-Ryan Igbinoba
4th Period
TaxProf Blog #1:
1) Content:
This blog talks about domestic corporations and foreign owned U.S. subsidiaries. It also talks about coorperate tax and transactions.
2) Appearance
This website is well organized and professional.
3) Ease of Navigation
Easy to find what you need since it is put together well using tabs and icons.
4) Apparent bias
The bias would be that some people don't mind paying taxes while some are against it.
Law and Economics Blog #2:
1) Content
This blog talks about how schools are progressing in economical studies and how all legal scholars can become empirical.
2) Appearance
Clean and professional template (the same as the one before) and well setup for ease of access.
3) Ease of Navigation
Organized with tabs and you can find whatever you need with no problems.
4) Apparent bias
Some people agree with scholars becoming empirical and some don't.
Name: Yassin Bennis
Period: 2
I did David Smith's EconomicsUK and The Bayesian Hersey.
#1-David Smith's EconomicsUK
Content: Blogs about the latest politics and polls going on in the UK. Also some American content.
Appearance: Well done site. Not plain and boring does have some features.
Ease of Navigation: A little confusing, everything is jumbled up on the left margin which makes it difficult to get the topic you want.
Apparent Bias: Big bias is that Scotland will be worse off in all subjects if the do push for independence.
#2-The Bayesian Hersey
Content: Everything from weather to economics to culture. Numerous blogs posted daily about anything and everything.
Appearance: Not boring catches the readers eye with some highlighted text.
Ease of Navigation: Very easy to get to the topic you want to explore. Also very easy to create your own blog.
Apparent Bias: Marketers devoting much effort to marketing for men. 75% of men admit to shopping for themselves.
Justin Freker
Period 4
Daniel Sanchez
2nd Period
1) Economix
Content: It mainly pertains to congress and the economic development that affects them or shifts in the house, senate, and legislation.
Appearance: It has a nice structure, but easily distracted by other posts. Also has supportive graphs.
Ease of navigation: Easy to navigate around. needs section to go to a specific place.
Apparent Bias: No bias because it supports any side of an argument.
2) Footnoted
Content: MONEY! Goes on all around topics such as income from businesses and personal income.
Appearance: Too many posts bunched together, needs more spacing.
Ease of navigation: Preferred wider spacing and possibly larger titles.
Apparent Bias: Seems to claim in some instances that when income is shortened and raises are left out, people are doing horrible but making $150,00 per does't sound bad at all.
I did Law & Economics Blog and Newmark's Door
#1 Law & Economics Blog
Content: Blog entries discuss different cases of law and tax regulations.
Appearance: The site looks very detailed but boring.
Ease of Navigation: The site has a search bar and tabs to help search for topics.
Apparent Bias: The blog appears to have different biases towards the different topics discussed.
#2 Newmark's Door
Content: These blog entries include posts about interesting things to middle aged economists.
Appearance: The site looks very bland and boring.
Ease of Navigation: There are categories on the right to narrow down searches, but there is no search bar.
Apparent bias: This blog shows the bias according to the things that interests the blogger.
-Guadalupe Alvear
2nd period
Globilisation and the Environment
Content: This blog shows entries about the environment and deforestation.
Appearance: This blog looks very organized and clean.
Ease of Navigation: The site is easy to navigate because of the search bar and the categories on the right.
Apparent Bias: The blog is biased to environmentalists due to the posts about the deforestation.
Guadalupe Alvear
2nd period
Yash Mathur 6th period
Economic priciples and Thoughts on Economics
#1-Economic Priciples
Content: This Website is more more of a self input page where jounalist add their own input about the production and distribution of economic ideas that are compiles into catagories.
-Appearance: It looked very simple nothing really eye catching, however the catagories were organized.
- Ease of Navigation: The organization is good in some ways but it has a extremely big list of journalists that is very insafeciant.
Apparent bias: The author himself has a very big facination towards russia and tends to favor or bring them into context allot
#2- Thoughts on Enonomics
Appearance- Much more pleasant to look at and has allot of information
Ease of Navigation- their is no ease in navigating this site, their is not much catagories and only has an attraction of a big anylisis on economics.
Content:His Blog mainly focuses on neoclassical and mainstream economics, and focuses on practical policies.
Apperant bias- the biases are evident due his oulook towards economics is more conservative beleiving in Post Keynesianism which is an old instituion.
1) The One-Handed Economist
Content: This is a real estate website trying to help people find homes.
Appearance: The site initially catches my attention with the bright colors and picture of Hawaii.
Ease of Navigation: It is pretty simple to navigate through the site but there are a lot of error messages that pop up when I clicked on different pages.
Apparent Bias: They are extremely biased because of course they want everyone to go through them to fine a home.
2) Neuroeconomics
Content: This blog just really talks about peoples decision making and how it effects the economy.
Appearance: The site is plan and unappealing.
Ease of Navigation: For the most part it is easy to get around until you try to search something, then you find some difficulty.
Bias: It is not really bias, this site focuses more on factual information.
Brittany Lacy
4th period
#1- EconoPundit
Content: Blog entries are comprised of learning to have a better nail salon and different locations for best nail service.
Appearance: The site is incredibly pink and bright.
Ease of Navigation: While there isn't much on the website, the sidebar holds links that go to news in Japan
Apparent Bias: This blog doesn't have much to do with economics, so the bias is more of the best way to increase nail salon function.
#2- The Capital Spectator
Content: Blog entries comprised of economists views of money and economics
appearance: the Site is a plain white but I like it because of its orginization.
Ease of Navigation: The Site is pretty easy to look through. the font is nice and there is a google search bar.
Apparent Bias: Most of the people on this site side towards slow growing the united states.
Audrey Hermes
2nd Period
Chicago Boyz and Agoraphilia
Chicago Boyz
Content-discusses a wide range of topics including current events, good reading, and economics. It is affiliated with Amazon.
Appearance- It looks unprofessional to me, and it is covered with advertisements.
Ease of navigation- fairly easy to use
Apparent bias- promotes economic liberalism and free market ideals.
Agoraphillia
Content- Looks at many topics from a libertarian stand point.
Appearance- I really like the blue, as it is easy to look at, and everything is well organized. The website also lacks ads, which is nice.
Ease of navigation- everything is easy to find with the search bar and favorites link in addition to the chronological order of the posts.
Apparent bias- this is a libertarian blog
Jesse Avila 4th Period
Economics in the News & ArgMax Economics
Economics in the News:
Content: Several authors post articles about European economic trends and such & how it affects the global economy.
Appearance: Rather than a blog, the website appears as if it were a news network and offers the same features given by one.
Ease of Navigation: It has standard blog navigation, a section for recent posts, each post is defined into categories and uses a tag system, and there is also a search engine.
Apparent Bias: Although based in the U.K., there is no slight European bias as the majority of the posts are internationally diverse.
ArgMax Economics:
Content: Blog entries focused on economic news, data, and analysis, and anything economically related.
Appearance: The banner of blue flowers catches your attention but other than that, it looks like any other blog.
Ease of Navigation: It has standard blog navigation, a section for recent posts, and has posts archived by month of a given year.
Apparent Bias: This is a personal blog by the respected John Irons and each post is subject to his personal opinion, if any.
1) Economic Development Leader
Content: Employer health care cost for employees and ways for them to save cost.
Appearance: Very small print, empty, looks pretty sketch, lots of info.
Ease of navigation: fairly easy all blogs are on one page but a lot of hyper links on the side. does seem fairly easy.
Apparent Bias: does not seem to like the military at all.
2) The Idea Shop
Content: A lot of math information, questions, problems, etc. Lots of graphs.
Appearance: it looks pretty good at first but it does have small words. Also becomes very scary with the graphs and formulas.
Apparent Bias: Not really.
John Harris, 2nd
1) Economic Development Leader
Content: Employer health care cost for employees and ways for them to save cost.
Appearance: Very small print, empty, looks pretty sketch, lots of info.
Ease of navigation: fairly easy all blogs are on one page but a lot of hyper links on the side. does seem fairly easy.
Apparent Bias: does not seem to like the military at all.
2) The Idea Shop
Content: A lot of math information, questions, problems, etc. Lots of graphs.
Appearance: it looks pretty good at first but it does have small words. Also becomes very scary with the graphs and formulas.
Apparent Bias: Not really.
John Harris, 2nd
Caitlin Davis
2nd Period
1) The Angry Economist
Content: An opinionated economist that talks about issues in America.
Appearance: Bland. Very easy to follow. Not much color.
Ease of Navigation: Easy to navigate. Tabs are clear on the margin.
Apparent Bias: Americans should stay out of foreign issues and take care of themselves first.
2) Environmental Economist
Content: The author's opinion on how he would help save the environment and that college is worth it.
Appearance: Very unorganized. Margins are too busy with tabs.
Ease of Navigation: Hard to navigate because of all the tabs.
Apparent Bias: People are in charge of taking care of the environment
#1 Lets Fly under the bridge
Content - Consists of opinions on certain issues presented by others.
Appears- Extremely basic and bland
Ease of navigation - Considering the website has no posts since 2010,, relatively simple as far as 2010 goes
Apparent Bias - leaning on liberalism
#2 Kudlow's Money Politics
Content - Interview on the CNMC show
Appearance - Relatively bland but a bit more modern than basic websites
Ease of Navigation - Relatively simple to navigate.
Apparent Bias - Democrat
Tom King
7th period
#1 Lets Fly under the bridge
Content - Consists of opinions on certain issues presented by others.
Appears- Extremely basic and bland
Ease of navigation - Considering the website has no posts since 2010,, relatively simple as far as 2010 goes
Apparent Bias - leaning on liberalism
#2 Kudlow's Money Politics
Content - Interview on the CNMC show
Appearance - Relatively bland but a bit more modern than basic websites
Ease of Navigation - Relatively simple to navigate.
Apparent Bias - Republican ***** ( Sorry misunderstood something)
Tom King
7th period
George Waterous
4th Period
#1 Project Syndicate
Content- Pulls articles from other publications.
Appearance- Boarding and basic
Ease of Navigation- Easy to navigate.
Apparent Bias- There is no bias. There are a wide range of topics and view points
#2 Globalisation and the Environment
Content- Has a lot of helpful pictures and diagrams concerning the environment.
Appearance-Simple but in a good way.
Ease of Navigation- Articles are
Apparent Bias-Bias because only one mans point of view.
#1) The Anti-Becker-Posner Blog
content: A blog devoted to correcting the mistakes and omissions of the Becker-posner blog.
appearance: clean presentation, rather well structured overall.
ease of navigation: the tabs are well laid out and clear as to where to find posts.
Apparent Bias: mentions a lot of liberal viewpoints over topics about the poor.
#2) Atlantic Blog
content: issues regarding mental and physical health
appearance: very weak, white, not very aesthetically appealing.
ease of navigation: very easy, well laid out and not hard to find entries about specific topics.
apparent bias: really he is just trying to sell some sort of natural supplements, very little is unbiased.
- Joe Ridyard
4th period
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