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Looking for contributors! Obviously I make the majority of posts in this sub, but I'm really not doing anything special or difficult.

Me/this sub is just a middle man that posts the high quality content made by other actual economists and finance professionals. The sidebar has a large number of these sources collected, and putting these sources all in one place that is easy to find is probably the biggest benefit this sub provides.

I welcome anyone who feels especially motivated to make any post any time. There truly is a wealth of high quality commentary that the pros pump out every day, and it's just more than I can create threads for as a single person.

Plus I have other ideas for posts, which I (or anyone) could do if I spent less time on commentary posts ...

• research and textbook excerpts
  
• reading club/book club and discussion threads (say for this book that just came out)
  
• a wider range of data release posts
  
• name and shame/debunking poor economic reporting in the news media
  
• meme threads (example)
  
  These might go a bit beyond the original purpose of the sub, which is to post commentary that discusses either (1) how the economy is doing, or (2) how the economy will be doing, but I think they could add value if there is demand for them

This being a public internet forum, it suffers as any large group of lay people would, you just can't expect there to be any standard of quality in who is commenting. I hate to be a pessimist but I really feel like, the larger the group of people, the more uninformed the majority view will be. A mass audience of lay people when confronted with technical material just will not have anything to say. You could take the highest quality economic analysis and go to a shopping mall and wave it around, and the best possible outcome is people being silent and considering it. Listening to everyone's opinion is not going to teach you anything.

Yeah for sure, my favorite casual audience book is this one

For websites I am obviously partial to this subreddit =P The sidebar has many links to commentary straight from economists (a daily sample of which is posted as threads here), so if you read them over time you will gain a better understanding. The much more important point is to just avoid, avoid, avoid mainstream media and journalist attempts at covering economics. Sometimes it's just bad, but other times it is downright misinformation with political motivations. Journalists are not economists, they don't want you to remember that.

Ok; thanks. I was rounding up; I'll put 7.5% (since it was published in 2018).

> there's no "law of supply and demand"

Of course there is. Please see here and here.