Angry Bear 2008:
Our current regulars include: Spencer, rdan, Divorced one Like Bush, Save the Rustbelt, and Stormy, and of course PGL.In 2008 we added two more economists Tom Bozzo and Ken Houghton. Bruce Webb and Afferent input are now regulars.
PGL (training in finance), Ken Houghton, Tom Bozzo, Robert Waldmann, and cactus are Ph.D economists working in private or university settings.
Rdan: Rdan and Angry Bear blog
Bruce Webb:I am by training a historian and mythologist who then has spent my working career in information retrieval and land use regulation. My interest in Social Security arose when I noticed in passing that the dates related to 'crisis' were moving but that nobody seemed to be noticing that and still less asking the key questions 'why?' and 'can this go on?' So I set out to try to answer those questions and then share the results which somehow led to a gig here at AB. Politically I am somewhat left of left of center and could best be described as a 'New Dealer' and so weigh in on more overtly political questions as the opportunity arises.
DolB:I am a liberal. A label that “progressive” is used in exchange with. I am not a radical, fascist, loony, left winged, socialist, commie. In fact, I am rather ambidextrous. Please look up all such terms before you start applying them to my writings here. I like to learn. I love to discuss such that the discussion resolves into my having learned. My qualifications as it relates to blogging at AB are generic compared to the economist here.
I have two businesses; a practice in the health care field and a retail business of flowers and plants. I have served as an officer of 2 non-profits and my state society. I have testified before my state legislature. I have personally won in my state supreme court. I have been locally politically active including sitting on a commission and the zoning board.
I blog at AB because it helps me discipline myself regarding continually learning. I consider it an honor to be allowed to blog at AB. My general theme is: An economy exists for our benefit related to happiness, money is just a tool, thus declaring that THE PURPOSE is to make a profit is a declaration of purposelessness.
You can learn more personal stuff about me here here and here.
Save the Rustbelt:
Tom: I've worked in consulting since 1996, mostly on issues pertaining to more-or-less regulated firms — especially in the postal, telecom, and railroad sectors. I live in Madison, Wisconsin with my oh-so-non-economist wife and two preschool-age children (who would occasionally make guest appearances at my old blog), and occasionally get time on the computer when it's not being used for sessions of Elmo's Keyboard-O-Rama.Spencer: Before I started my own consulting business I was an economist for the CIA for 10 years and worked for a couple of Boston investment management firms as their in house economist, investment strategist for some 12 years. My original field of study was international economics and international finance.
I just celebrated the 20th anniversary of publishing SEER -- my equity strategy product. I model the S&P industries and advise portfolio managers on how to structure their portfolios by recommending industry weights.
Robert:...born the day after Kennedy was elected (November 9 1960).
I have a PhD in economics (Harvard 1989) and teach economics at the
University of Rome "Tor Vergata". I wasn't always like this. I have a bachelor's degree in biology.
Oddly, I don't blog much at my own site rjwaldmann about economics or Italy. Currently, I am obsessed with Obama, but I'll try not to bore people with stuff they already read 10 times today.
As an economist (roughly) I am interested in behavioral economics, growth, and the economics of inequality. Actually much of my current research, such as it is, is really in econometric methodology and statistics. I was very unorthodox in the 80s, but the orthodoxy is much less rigid now.
Stormy:
Ken:
PGL:
Afferent input:
History of Angry Bear:
The eponymous Angry Bear blog is the brainchild of... Angry Bear ("AB"), who founded the blog in February of 2003. The title of the blog reflects his emotional reaction (anger) to his view of the state (bearish) of the state of the economy when the blog was founded. Sadly, he had cause to maintain that sentiment for quite a while.
Kash Mansori joined the blog in August 2003, and PGL arrived a year later. AB, Kash, and PGL formed the core of the blog for many years. Each has a Ph.D. in economics, but AB's focus is on microeconomic issues, Kash's are in macroeconomic issues, and PGL's training is in finance.
Neither AB nor Kash has posted here in a while, but we hold out hope for their eventual return. We also hold out hope for the return of CR, who posted for several years at both Angry Bear and his own blog, Calculated Risk. However, we can at least continue to enjoy his insights on real estate at the Calculated Risk blog.
Since 2006, Angry Bear has added more regulars - some have remained, some have stayed for a while and then moved on. Our current regulars include cactus, Spencer, rdan, Divorced one Like Bush, Save the Rustbelt, and Stormy, and of course PGL.In 2008 we added two economists Tom Bozzo and Ken Houghton. Bruce Webb , Afferent input and Robert Waldmann are now regulars. Not all the regulars are economists by training, but then nobody is perfect. Still, all the regulars have an interest in economics, and to one degree or another, each has a tendency to write the sort of thing that fits AB's original vision, namely "Slightly left of center economic commentary on news, politics, and the economy."
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