What is really happening with our economy…these experts offer you their opinion.

This is a very challenging time for projecting financial and economic trends. In a word, we are on uncharted ground and breaking the rules daily, performing  unprecedented strategies,  with the government attempting to intercede and fix the economy with its fiscal policies and actions.  Whew, if only they knew what they were doing, which it seems apparent they do not, but onward they go through the fog, pretending they know what they are doing, when in all reality they have not a clue. Yet onward our government treads, unable to resist satisfying their self determined need to interfere, control and thus fix the economy.

A healthy economy is vital to our way of life. Therefore we are all  very interested in what it all means and what is going to happen in the future. Fortunately there are many economic experts blogging their thoughts and ideas and engaging in discussion with their readers. I will list some of the more popular writers and encourage you to find out more from the experts, not the government, but others qualified to evaluate and interpret as well as project.

Here they are, selected by a recent Wall Street Journal review:

1. Calculated Risk  www.calculatedriskblog.com     Some of the most informative charts on the housing crisis, predicted the problem years in advance, The best blog for discussion on housing.

2. Krugman.blogs.nytimes.com  strident criticism of the GOP this Nobel prize winning Princeton University economist  has a talent for spotting economic problems as they emerge.

3. economistsview.typepad.com some of the most interesting views of the day.

4. delong.typepad.com  University of California professor, an accomplished economic historian.

5. gregmankiw.blogspot.com   a conservative perspective, from Harvard…

6. www.marginalrevolution.com   Tyler Cohen and Alex Taborrok libertarian economists at George Mason University write a wide ranging blog about what’s happening with the economy.

7. baselinescenario.com  Simon Johnson, International Monetary Fund Chief economist, now at MIT. a wide variety of discussions on all aspects of the economy.

8. economistmom.com  Diane Lim Rogers, a retired mother of four who worked in Washington policy circles for 16 years and now ads her view.

9. www.econbrowser.com James Hamilton, University of California writes about energy markets and other topics, readable and understandable.

10. blogs.wsj.com/economics…Wall Street Journal team..Justin Lahart, Phil Izzo, Kelly Evans, Sara Murray, Conor Dougherty and Sudep Reddy…the WSJ team of economists, claim to be he best in the business…they are pretty good. Read and decide.

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