Tanta Has Died

I was sad to hear today that Tanta, a blogger at the finance and economics blog Calculated Risk, passed away. For me, the world will always divided into pre-Tanta and post-Tanta. She will forever mark a change in my reading habits. Outside of my narrow professional field, traditional media and journalism had always made up my primary source of information when trying to make sense of current events in the world around me. But that was before I stumbling onto one of Tanta's posts which shown bright and clear against the murky and frustrating background of noise being spewed forth by the usual suspects. From that day forward, I've looked for and found that the best signal to noise ratio on just about any topic can be had in the blogosphere. Thank you Tanta. RIP Tanta.