Doris Dungey, Prescient Finance Blogger, Dies at 47

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Source: New York Times

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.

Tanta used her extensive knowledge of the loan industry to comment, castigate and above all instruct. Her fans ranged from the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times who cited her in his blog, to analysts at the Federal Reserve, who cited her in a paper on “Understanding the Securitization of Subprime Mortgage Credit.”




Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/business/01tanta.html?_r=1

[emilyg]

1. So young. RIP

[CreekDog]

2. what a shame

i had no idea.

i love that blog. :cry:

[MadMaddie]

3. Way too young!

RIP!

[Fenris]

4. Very smart analyst.

Definitely will miss her insight.

[Kaleko]

5. Good work, Tanta. You made a difference in your life.

Shine on, wherever you are.

[bridgit]

6. Too young, too hard, safe passage, Tanta ~

[ozymandius]

7. She represented the Gold Standard in economic blogging.

How horrible. A great light has gone out.

[Bigmack]

8. And yet... Dumbya, Cheney, Rummy, Wolfie, Perle....

Rush, Hannity, Savage, live on.

Sorry to be like this, but I've got a pantload of bitterness. All the good people who have died - all over the world - and those assholes go on and on like the fucking energizer bunny.