Web Resources for Investors
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Note that all of these links lead to external web sites and are not part of PBS.org or Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE.
Speaking of editorial content, business news and editorials have a reputation for being dry and staid. Fortunately, any number of financial writers already break out of that mold.
TheStreet.com swaggers with the personality of founder James J. Cramer, but Cramer is hardly the only one worth reading here. If you can stand the constant self-promotion that permeates the site, you'll find plenty of interesting, informative and amusing material, even on the free portion. The paid part, RealMoney.com, gives you the same stuff, but a lot more of it.
CBS Marketwatch has a popular stable of columnists. Herb Greenberg, an occasional guest on Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE, has been the best-known voice of short sellers for years. Syndicated writer Charles Jaffe is particularly noteworthy for his coverage of investing issues
Gretchen Morgenson of The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her Wall Street coverage, but she can be dry at times. Her Times colleague Floyd Norris loves to dig beneath numbers -- everyone can learn something from his columns, although they can, on rare occasions, drown in financial minutiae.
Oft-quoted executive pay critic Graef "Bud" Crystal used to publish a for-pay newsletter chronicling CEO excesses. Now he writes a column that anyone can read at Bloomberg.com.
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