Calculated Risk is a 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...

 and 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"...

 blog

Blog

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. It was started in early 2005 by former technology executive Bill McBride

Bill McBride (blogger)

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 to his blog to support his argument...

 (pseudonym Calculated Risk), with frequent posts by 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:...

 (under the pseudonym Tanta) until her death on November 30, 2008 from ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer

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. As an early predictor of the United States housing bubble

United States housing bubble

The United States housing bubble is an economic bubble affecting many parts of the United States housing market in over half of American states. Housing prices peaked in early 2006, started to decline in 2006 and 2007, and may not yet have hit bottom as of 2011. On December 30, 2008 the...

, Calculated Risk developed a "cult following" and influence over US fiscal policy. In January 2009, it received approximately 75,000 visits a day, and was the top economics blog by traffic statistics.