What do you read?

[Poindexter]

I just thought to take a little informal poll. Please, where do you get your information regarding current affairs and market trends - dailies, weeklies, monthlies? Books?

Just curious. 

[Thomas T]

from property developer newsletter lah...

[Beavis]

The Economist
Financial Times
Business Times
Straits Times (more for fun)
Internet (Marketwatch, Seeking Alpha, NY Times)
John Mauldin free newsletters (his own + out of box)
DoomBoomGloom Report by Marc Faber (200 bucks a year)
Stratfor website
I also subscribe to a number of Financial newsletters (2 from Cabot, also Global Growth by Vivien Lewis).

I also read many books (am going through "the world is curved" by David Smick, on display at Borders at the moment, and it's finger-licking good).

[In decline]

The Economist long ago became the British version of Newsweek. The politics section is particularly awful.

[Beavis]

The Economist has some flaws (it's people writing it after all), but come on, it's at a whole different level from Newsweek.  In one package, it tells you just enough about everything.  And I love their cartoons (the one with Bagehot this week was a delight, just the kind of male you can see walking around Pattaya).

Anyway, I'm always interested in other good information sources, especially if they're free.

Forgot Nouriel Roubini's RGE monitor also.  If you register you get access to global economic analysis, including Singapore.

[ft worshipper]

The FT is the best educational business read around - I cannot live without this newspaper.

[Poindexter]

Nouriel Roubini sounds familiar - is he at Stern/NYU? I went to grad school there but in a different department. He's the guy that did the int'l econ courses? I used to cruise his website but it's a lot to chew.

The Economist, I've always loved. I used to read it in BKK where it was dirt cheap, is the price here in Singapore grossly marked up?