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Ask HN: Economics community website?

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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?

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.

My email's in my profile if you want to discuss privately.

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Reddit's always there if it's not too low brow for you: http://www.reddit.com/r/economics

Yeah, good suggestion. Reddit's quite a large site though now with a broad number of topics. Maybe a more focused business/economics site might be more useful to me I don't know.

Unfortunately, it suffers from the same hivemindism that infects the rest of the site :(

I used to be subscribed to it, but I've since been demoralized enough by it to unsubscribe to it.

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 thought he died in a skydiving accident?

Source?

I just sent him an email asking if he has plans to put New Mogul back up.

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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:

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1618/economics?ref...

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.

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: http://www.economistsdoitwithmodels.com/ 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).

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.

The site is http://forlue.com

That might be a good idea. It's a pity New Mogul shut-down as It really was a good compliment to HN's engineering topics when many are also looking for business advice and content.

do you have friends, co-workers, etc. that'd use it too?

Possibly.

I love the independent Economist articles - the mixture of background, stats, graphs and opinion. The problem lies in engaging with the topics and the need for startup/entrepreneurial content that will help me with my own startup.

Viewing this from a startup/entrepreneurial perspective would create something fairly unique I'd think. I might explore building this myself, maybe quickly testing the idea with Drupal or something.

Not anything that has come a long way by now, but you could try growing the economics section on Hubski: http://hubski.com/tag?id=economics.

The site looks fine but growing the economics section might be a big ask. No offense to the operators but the name isn't the best either.

I've received a lot of interesting feedback and will be proceeding to build something.

Hopefully all going well I'll update this thread when it's ready.

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