I'm trying to decide which Newspaper should i subscribe to: Wall Street Journal vs New York Times Wall Street Journal: Pros: In-Depth Financial news, Investment news Cons: NO sports section (WTF? ), NO metro section New York Times: Pros: In-Depth Political news. sports and metro section included Cons: lack of financial news, more expensive than WSJ im a student living in nyc majoring in economics. Houston Chronicle will not be an option for me, although i would love to subscribe to it.
I voted WSJ because you're majoring in economics...though the fact that you live in NY makes it a tougher choice, since a lot of people will probably have the Times and you could be "missing out" on those water cooler discussions, right? Why don't you just find a friend...you get one, he gets the other, switch papers mid-day or something.
Actually most people have the Post in their hands, . I guess most people dont wanna read about the financial crisis early in the morning
Nytimes.com, I believe is totally free as of the past few weeks. WSJ.com is also phasing their website for complete free access in the next few weeks. They have found it is more advantageous to be have a free ad supported site, rather than a paid subscription site. Nytimes.com increased readership by around 65% in the past three months since phasing in all free content. I really like the quality of writing for the Nytimes.com. I think its the best of the bunch. WSJ.com is a good paper for finance/economic beginners since they explain everything they are talking about. It makes the articles about 25% longer than it should be. You can find subscriptions for the WSJ on places like Ebay heavily discounted. As for the NY Times, you can find them through discount magazine sites. If you are economics/finance student, the most relevant and cutting edge information actually comes from the financial blogs these days. It kind of makes the newspaper irrelevant nowadays. They also link back to newspaper sites and have commentary on those articles.
The Wall Street Journal by 100 miles! My suggestion is that you subscribe to WSJ.com and read the NYTimes and Houston Chronicle online. WSJ.com is outstanding and I highly recommend it.
These are some of my favourites: - http://bigpicture.typepad.com/ Most well known finance/economics blog, mostly macro economic views - http://www.urbandigs.com/ --A NYC housing blog by charter, but really good discussion of macro economic events, interest rates, housing and Federal Reserve - http://paul.kedrosky.com/ The finance of technology - http://bespokeinvest.typepad.com/bespoke/ - A market statistician's dream - http://www.thekirkreport.com/ -- Has really good links to articles and newspapers you might have missed - http://itulip.com/ Talks alot about currencies, dollar and housing The only thing one should realize is most financial blogs have a bearish tint to them. They generally are skeptics of what the government data and what the Fed does. So sometimes you will have to look through this bias and come to your own conclusions. But basically everyone, I know on Wall Street reads one if not not all of these blogs each day.
Take out a weekly subscription to the Economist, get a saturday/sunday subscription to the times. Read a lot of Bloomberg from the terminal in your school library. The WSJl is a great paper, just like the Times of london used to be. But beware, the murdochification has begun - they have lost a lot of key writers and editors.
You're an econ student...so I would read the economics blogs over the financial ones. The Economist is also great. Here are some great economics blogs: http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/ http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/ http://www.economist.com/debate/freeexchange/ http://www.marginalrevolution.com/
I really really hate the WSJ. Just for a general newspaper I'd recommend the NYT or NY Post. For financial I like IBD. Investors Business Daily= firefox Wall street journal = internet explorer.
IBD is a bit too basic to serve an investor's needs. The reason why is it focuses too narrowly on just equities. In order to be a good investor, one has to be aware of all things both here and abroad and all sorts of markets. IBD really doesn't do that too well. I prefer the Financial Times as the best all around financial paper.
