The comments are nothing fancy - no log in, no email address, no nothing required to add a comment - you don't even need a nickname to post - so the comments are completely open.

If you're a blogger and leave a website URL in a comment, I'll notice you and make an avatar and associate it with your blog / nickname - each time you post your avatar will automatically show up linking to your blog.

As Speculative Bubble grows, I'll beef up the comments to allow pictures, links, HTML, nested comments, block any fake posters, smilies, etc. but for now it is just a 100% text only box. I just wanted to get blogging already - so I'll scale it up in a few months.

Done and done - K, BTW

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Speculative Bubble Blog feeds:

			Bond Blog
			Commodities Blog
			Currency Blog
			Econonics Blog
			Housing Blog
			Stock Market Blog
			Tax Blog
			Website Issues
			Only articles written by Speculative Bubble
			All the above feeds combined into one

Feeds for the blog aggregators (last 50 posts in the blogosphere):

        Bond Blogger Links

        Commodity Blogger Links

        Currency Blogger Links

        Economy Blogger Links

        Housing Blogger Links

        Stock Market Blogger Links

        Tax Blogger Links

        All the above Link Blog feeds combined into one

Housing, economy, and stock market feeds are the only ones that are really populated with blogs at the moment (12/29/2006) but they will all fill in with time...

The aggregators are tracking 162 blogs so far

UPDATE Wed. Jan. 10th - Now tracking 190 blogs

Speculative Bubble started in June of 1999 as a blog about the dotcom bubble. As an ex financial planner / stock broker from the 90's I used it as a way for me to get all my investment knowledge in one place for reference. Back then I didn't know what a blog was - I just called it 'investment tip of the day' and kept writing article after article and even built up a pretty good glossary of terms. At its peak it was close to a thousand pages of content.

By the early 2000s the internet bubble had burst, and my love for all things stock market had turned into a love for all things programming. After some hosting issues, I basically abandoned the site but let it sit there and cook incase anyone ever wanted to read my thinking on investment fundamentals. It's been several years and several hosting companies since then and some of the content has been lost (all the comments, etc.) but the basic shell of the site still remains and gets a bit of traffic.

While I was away from Spec, I was busy building numerous other websites in many different industries and still love running websites. All the while though, I've been keeping a side eye on the markets and with the way the housing market has become I find myself too drawn to it to ignore. I've decided to work on speculativebubble full time for 2007 and follow along.

When I left it, Speculative Bubble was a very active website heavily linked and referenced throughout the industry - but sitting dormant for so many years has really taken its toll. It hasn't even been in google for the last two years. Imagine that. I look forward to bringing it back up to speed and re-establishing its community of enthusiasm and becoming part of the new community of investment bloggers and mainly the bubble bloggers covering housing.

I still plan on blogging about the other areas of investing such as stocks, bonds, commodities, and currency but have a feeling that 2007 is going to be an exciting year to be following real estate. So that's the focus and that's why I'm here.

Stay tuned as a full time programmer attacks the housing part of the internet - I plan on building any housing related tool I can think of. News aggregators, blog watch, housing stats and data, charts, graphs, calculators, etc.

Currently I am putting together a listing of all the posts by the bubble bloggers. It is a work in progress but you can see it here. I am also working on building a blog back end here as well as on this page you're reading.

I feel that by the first of the year Spec will be ready to roll and I can really start posting!

Thanks for visiting and remember to check back every month or so to see the progress

(you can still access the old site (glossary and articles) at the very bottom of this page.)

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