Counterparties

December 22, 2011 3:47 PM

Counterparties is a nice little collection of curated and tagged economic news stories, 5-8 every day. It is edited in part by the admirable (and MetaFave) financial journalist Felix Salmon.
posted by shothotbot (12 comments total)

Honestly, I am a little irritated with the overuse of the term "curated"
posted by This, of course, alludes to you at 4:07 PM on December 22, 2011

Good stuff: Ron Paul's investments a "half-step away from a cellar-full of canned goods and nine-millimeter rounds."
posted by jim in austin at 4:18 PM on December 22, 2011

Salmon is one of the best out there. Counterparties is excellent- he's created something that will hopefully survive him.
posted by gen at 4:45 PM on December 22, 2011

Crazy Ronnie and his gold stocks are up what, about 500% over 10 years vs a more/less flat s&p? Not saying that goldbugs aren't a bunch of doomsday wishing idjuts, but he's beating the piss out of those geniuses who manage my so called 401k.
posted by freq at 4:52 PM on December 22, 2011

Honestly, I am a little irritated with the overuse of the term "curated"

I am certainly sensitive to irritation with cliches. What term do you suggest for carefully selecting a few important links to highlight for the average reader?
posted by shothotbot at 5:00 PM on December 22, 2011

firemanning
posted by This, of course, alludes to you at 5:16 PM on December 22, 2011

I was in two minds about whether to bookmark this, until I saw the list on the right-hand side entitled "Stuff we're not linking too" included Barney Frank’s Protruding Nipples: Why Do Nipples Harden in the Cold?.

Sold.
posted by coriolisdave at 8:13 PM on December 22, 2011

Counterparties is a nice little collection of curated and tagged economic news stories, 5-8 every day.

I don't understand. Why isn't each and every day just 5-8 links to Dealbreaker?
posted by gd779 at 8:27 PM on December 22, 2011

I don't understand. Why isn't each and every day just 5-8 links to Dealbreaker?

Because they have to link at least once a day to FT-Alphaville
posted by shothotbot at 8:33 PM on December 22, 2011

Honestly, I am a little irritated with the overuse of the term "curated"

Well, then, off to Huffington Post with you!
posted by dhartung at 10:03 PM on December 22, 2011

Honestly, I am a little irritated with the overuse of the term "curated"....

What term do you suggest for carefully selecting a few important links to highlight for the average reader?

The answer is in the question: selected would work. As would chosen, picked etc.
posted by rhymer at 1:15 AM on December 23, 2011

Bloomberg has acquired the Federal Reserve's financial crisis loan data for 2007 and 2009 through a FOIA. (visualization, zipped data)
posted by jeffburdges at 12:51 AM on December 25, 2011