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Investors want independent research! As Eddy Elfenbein from Crossingwallstreet.com points out, Goldman one month had 408 unique visitors to their research site! miiclub.org has more unique visitors than the most respected investment bank? (haha evil laugh!)

Sure, the Wall Street Journal has some great articles, Bloomberg provides some great up to the minute news on the US and other markets around the world but in my opinion blogs provide the most insightful analysis on stocks and the economy. There are many forms of investing; quant, macro driven, value investing, technical analysis blaa blaa. Many people have made fortunes following these styles and as longs as others follow it, there will be money to be made doing this. It's why technical analysis works, because others follow it! (Otherwise I would say it's BS!) For me, the markets are more driven by emotions and psychology. It's all based on expectations and if these expectations are met or not the stock will move. Blogs provide the best way to read the psychology and emotions behind stocks. Why? Because these bloggers have money invested, their agile and independent and just like you, they can read the emotions behind the stock!

Here a few of my favorite blogs:

www.crossingwallstreet.com
Eddy Elfenbein gives his commentary on the markets, the economy, politics and his personal portfolio. Often funny and always interesting. Always has cool graphs!
www.dealbreaker.com
Think the perezhilton of Wall St! (wow did I just say this)
www.leveragedsellout.com
Humorous site that makes fun of bankers (which I think everyone should on a regular basis)! Visit this site every 3-4 weeks for a good laugh.
www.seekingalpha.com
The 800 pound gorilla of blogs!
www.wallstreetoasis.com
Message board to become a monkey (when I say monkey I mean banker)
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/
A must read for deals
www.footnoted.org
Michelle Leder examines SEC fillings and I promise she makes them interesting.
http://www.kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.com/
Kudlow. That's it.
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/
Mark Perry! UM Flint economics professor.

There are many more so blog on bloggers, blog on!