Bill McBride (blogger)
Encyclopedia
Bill McBride is an American
blogger who founded the economics
and finance
blog
Calculated Risk
. A former technology executive, in early 2005 McBride believed that the housing market in the United States was near its peak, and he posted articles and statistics (anonymously, under the pseudonym Calculated Risk) to his blog to support his argument. Bill McBride was soon joined by his co-blogger, Doris Dungey
, who wrote under the pseudonym Tanta until her death on November 30, 2008.
As an early predictor of the US housing bust
, Calculated Risk gained influence and by January 2009 it was the top economics blog by traffic statistics.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
blogger who founded the economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
and finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
blog
Blog
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Calculated Risk
Calculated Risk
Calculated Risk is a finance and economics blog. It was started in early 2005 by former technology executive Bill McBride , with frequent posts by Doris Dungey until her death on November 30, 2008 from ovarian cancer...
. A former technology executive, in early 2005 McBride believed that the housing market in the United States was near its peak, and he posted articles and statistics (anonymously, under the pseudonym Calculated Risk) to his blog to support his argument. Bill McBride was soon joined by his co-blogger, Doris Dungey
Doris Dungey
Doris J. Dungey was an American blogger who wrote extensively about the United States housing bubble for the blog Calculated Risk under the pseudonym Tanta.-Early life and work:...
, who wrote under the pseudonym Tanta until her death on November 30, 2008.
As an early predictor of the US housing bust
United States housing market correction
A United States housing market correction is a market correction or "bubble bursting" of a United States housing bubble; the most recent began following a national home price peak first identified in July 2006. Because realty trades in illiquid markets relative to financial assets such as common...
, Calculated Risk gained influence and by January 2009 it was the top economics blog by traffic statistics.
External links
- Calculated Risk blog