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Capital Gains and Gains Makes The Wall Street Journal's Top Economic Blogs List!
Capital Gains and Games — Take a look. We'd like to thank the academy, our high school acting teachers, our agents and, of course, our families for their support. It was great working with the best cast and crew ever to be assembled. It would have been an honor just to be nominated, but to win this prestigious award...     ...

Internet celebrities (according to the WSJ)
Marginal Revolution — ...  (subs.) and here is the list.  I was pleased to see this shout-out to Marginal Revolution commentators.  Keep up the good work! ...

links for 2009-07-17
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Richard McGregor: China's Larger Stimulus Program Appears to Be Working Top 25 Economics Blogs Robert Waldmann: The Critique of ...

Econlog Makes WSJ's Top 25
EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty — Econlog is in the top 25 economics blogs, as chosen by the Wall Street Journal . I've waited for my co-bloggers to crow about this, since I'm the newcomer (I started in October 2008), but because they haven't, I will. Of course, we don't know where the Journal put us in the top 25 because their list is alphabetic. But thanks to Arnold and Bryan, and thanks to the thousands of commenters who have helped us get this far. CATEGORIES: ...

Are Libertarians Especially Predictable?
EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty — I'm grateful for the Wall St. Journal 's coverage of EconLog , even if they can't spell my name correctly. I was struck, though, by its "quibble": The blog's libertarian viewpoint means that you can almost always guess the punch line. Counter-quibbles: 1. The same complaint plainly applies to forthrightly liberal and conservative blogs. But I'd go further: It also applies to moderate and contrarian blogs. You can count on moderates to be moderate. More strikingly, you can count on contrarians to be contrarian. Consider Tyler, my favorite contrarian. You can be ...

The Morning Meeting
Economic Principals — ... You mean the EP sampler that I keep promising to produce as a subscription premium? Aren’t there too many books in the world already? Chuffed though we were to make The Wall Street Journal’s list of The Top 25 Economics Blogs the other day, EP exists mainly in the realm of in-between. It is not really a blog, for it appears only weekly, with no reader feedback and no blogroll; nor is it the column it once was, for it is part of no newspaper (though related by temperament to several). EP is a weekly, and ...