Sad News about Tanta

Calculated Risk has the link to this NYT story.[1]

The blogger Tanta, an influential voice on the mortgage collapse, died Sunday morning in Columbus, Ohio.

Tanta, who wrote for Calculated Risk, a finance and economics blog, was a pseudonym for Doris Dungey, 47, who until recently had lived in Upper Marlboro, Md. The cause of death was ovarian cancer, her sister, Cathy Stickelmaier, said.

Thanks in large part to Tanta’s contributions, Calculated Risk became a crucial source of prescient analysis as the housing market at first faltered, then collapsed and finally spawned a full-blown credit crisis.

 

CR himself posted here (long post with over 1,100 comments to now)

 

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[1]: "Doris Dungey, Prescient Finance Blogger, Dies at 47", by David Streitfeld, New York Times, November 30, 2008.

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2 Comments for this entry

  1. John M. says:
    December 1, 2008 at 1:32 PM

    farewell to the best co-blogger who ever lived …

  2. twist says:
    December 1, 2008 at 10:55 PM

    Some people make a place in the world that no one else could possibly fill. Tanta was one of those people.

    She will be deeply missed.

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