I feel that there is a need for a news and discussion site with opinion on economics and business. "New Mogul" has been down for a while now or for good, it used to be a place where people that like economics could discuss the major issues. Are there similar sites out there that anyone visits?<p>I read The Economist and Zero Hedge routinely, and Seeking Alpha, Forbes etc occasionally. Still, I'd be interested in starting a community focused on the above if others would be interested too.<p>My email's in my profile if you want to discuss privately.
Reddit's always there if it's not too low brow for you: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/economics" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/economics</a>
At this point I wonder if nickb would be willing to sell the newmogul trademark. Considering that all it would take is some marginal news.arc server maintenance and a "guess what? Newmogul is back up" and you'd have a viable web property going, the IP should be worth something.
I'm interested as long as it leans to people taking action to introduce improvements and experiments in the real world rather than endless debate or stamp collecting.
There is a proposal for an Economics Stack Exchange site that's in the 'commitment' phase:<p><a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1618/economics?referrer=vIzKomJGMKc1" rel="nofollow">http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1618/economics?ref...</a><p>The site will go into beta when enough people 'commit' to participating in it.
Thanks for the url. It looks like an interesting forum, more from a stocks perspective as opposed to the macro economy.<p>I'd like to add that it might make more sense to focus on startups and innovating companies from each sector mentioned. Maybe expanding on the business posts here on HN and /startups on Reddit?
You may want to contact Jodi at: <a href="http://www.economistsdoitwithmodels.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.economistsdoitwithmodels.com/</a> That is a real site by the way. I watched a ton of her videos to help me prepare for my economics exam this semester.
I have a HN like site that I can put up (news.arc).<p>It's down right now, but if at least 5 - 10 people would use it (contribute) regularly for "business" news, I'll put it back up.<p>The site is <a href="http://forlue.com" rel="nofollow">http://forlue.com</a>
Not anything that has come a long way by now, but you could try growing the economics section on Hubski: <a href="http://hubski.com/tag?id=economics" rel="nofollow">http://hubski.com/tag?id=economics</a>.
I've received a lot of interesting feedback and will be proceeding to build something.<p>Hopefully all going well I'll update this thread when it's ready.