Happy Sixth Birthday to Abnormal Returns!

Today marks the sixth birthday for the great blog, Abnormal Returns, which is the home of the indefatigable Tadas Viskanta.

If you’re not familiar with Abnormal Returns, Tadas does a daily linkfest — though I’m hesitant to use that word since what he does is so much more — he captures the best of the financial blogosphere.

The entire staff here at Crossing Wall Street congratulate Tadas on his success. Josh Brown at the Reformed Broker gathered a collection of praise from all across the world of financial blogs.

Here’s a sample:

Howard Lindzon (StockTwits): “Tadas has style. He loves curating and sharing and understands the link economy and the social web. We are lucky to have him in the financial blogosphere.”

Mebane Faber (World Beta): “Tadas is a must read at our shop, and I’d pay more to subscribe to his site than to any newspaper.”

JC Parets (All Star Charts): “It’s the best stuff out there. Plain and simple. If you want to know what’s going on – look no further. I tell this to everyone.”

Eli Radke (Trader Habits): “Abnormal Returns has impacted me and countless others, that impact is measured by the inability to remember what life was like before. Meeting Tadas will only make you a bigger fan.”

Felix Salmon (Reuters): “Abnormal Returns ROCKS. Happy blog-birthday, Tadas!”

Justin Paterno (ZeroBeta): “Abnormal Returns is the motivating force of the financial blogosphere. If you write a blog post, you can’t wait to see if Tadas picks you up – not for the traffic but to see if what you wrote was worth linking to.”

Mark Gongloff (WSJ MarketBeat): “Abnormal Returns is so important to my daily blogging life that I named my first child “Abbie Normal.” My wife of course had other ideas, but I told her ‘Ritholtz’ was a terrible name for a baby girl.”

Joe Weisenthal (Business Insider): AR is awesome. In many ways, I consider Tadas a blog soulmate, as he started AR right around the same time I started my first financial blog, TheStalwart.com. Before anyone else he sensed that this financial blogging thing would be big, and since then that sense has served him identify and aggregate exactly what needs to be read right at any given time.

TED (The Epicurean Dealmaker): “Abnormal Returns is an essential component of my toolkit for rapine, pillage, and world domination. Without Tadas, I’m sure I would be a hemp-wearing, dreadlocked slacker getting pepper-sprayed on Broad Street.”

Posted by on October 10th, 2011 at 10:39 am


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