AAO Weblog
is the blog section of the Analyst's Accounting Observer. It covers accounting matters ranging from auditing to accounting principles to restatements to SEC issues - "all things", says author Jack Ciesielski, "that should matter to professional investors". Mr Ciesielski is the owner of R.G. Associates, Inc., an investment research and portfolio management firm located in Baltimore, has been a CPA since 1978, a CFA since 1988, holds the Certified Management Accountant designation and spent nearly seven years as a security analyst with the Legg Mason Value Trust, Bill Miller's S&P 500-beating mutual fund. Launched in January 2005, with posts most days the market is open. Posts are not categorized, but the search box allows you to search by company name. This blog is not light reading, but it's not supposed to be. For those with focus and attention, this is genuinely valuable (and free) information.

Above the Crowd
is less a blog than a regular column.  Written by Benchmark Capital partner Bill Gurley, each issue focuses on an area of  emerging technology.  The blog has archives for the column going back to 1996. [Update: Above the Crowd has been inactive since October, 2004]

Alchemy of Trading
focuses on equity trading, mostly from a technical perspective. Stephen Vita, a professional investor since 1989, posts daily. His methodology? "I like to focus on the strongest sectors and concentrate my portfolio holdings; this can increase volatility - making it vital to cut losses quickly - but also increases the chance for outsize gains."

Allen's Blog
belongs to Allen Morgan, ex-lawyer (Wilson Sonsini) and now general partner at VC firm Mayfield. Mr Morgan writes about technology, Internet, venture capital and entrepreneurship. The last few months' posts have been dominated by an interesting and informative series of posts called Ten Commandments for Entrepreneurs, which Mr Morgan describes as "my ideas of the 10 most important "procedural" things to keep in mind when you approach a VC." Posts are infrequent (sometimes only one per month) but longer and more thoughtful than many others'.  Three minor gripes about the blog: (1) Although the blog uses TypePad which has excellent support for categories, posts aren't categorized. (2) Like all VCs, Mr Morgan pushes his own companies: he's on the board of Pluck, for example, and (surprise, surprise) the only RSS subscription logo on the blog is for... Pluck. (3) Navigation is hard. The posts are fairly long, but they're not broken into introduction/continuation to make them more navigable on the home page.

Angry Bear
describes itself as "slightly left of center comments on news, politics, and economics from an economist".  Written by a group of anonymous economics PhDs, it's strong on tax, and has categories devoted to consumption taxes, dividend taxes and progressive taxation.

The Anti-Becker-Posner Blog
is a response to The Becker-Posner Blog and a study in contrasts, down to the style and color scheme. The anonymous administrator wants it to be "a community blog... Anyone who catches any mistake or omission in any post by Becker or Posner is invited to comment..." So far there is only one author - the administrator, whose own comments are short and pithy responses to the Becker-Posner posts. Anonymity is justified on the following grounds: "You should judge my arguments by their content, not by my identity... I'm not claiming any special knowledge, and I see no need for you to have them [sic] to judge the claims and conclusions on this blog. My biases should be fairly clear from the title and content." That's a suspect argument since anonymity, particularly in blogs and message boards, often encourages a lack of courtesy that would never be expressed if the author was face to face with the people he was criticising. The tag line for the blog, for example, is "A Blog devoted to correcting the mistakes, omissions, and downright nonsense on the Becker-Posner-Blog." Charming. A better principle is: If you're not comfortable being associated with what you write, you probably shouldn't be writing it. Launched in May 2005 with timing of posts determined by the Becker-Posner Blog. Prof Becker and Judge Posner, by the way, had the class to link to The Anti-Becker-Posner Blog themselves.

Anumati News
author MarioGrech says that "A lot of the better market blogs on the 'net are very trading and technical analysis focused; this blog offers something different since I'm focused on fundamental analysis, particularly a value investing style. There is a lot of coverage given to "Evil on theStreet" -- because, well, there's a lot of evil out there, and it's fun to write about." The Anumati News blog launched in February 2005, but because Mario posts about three times a day there's already a substantial amount of content.

Argmax
contains economics news, data, and analysis.  It's written by John Irons, currently a Senior Economic Research and Policy Analyst and Staff Economist at OMB Watch, a Washington DC nonprofit organization, where he tracks federal tax and budget issues. Previously he was an economics professor at Amherst College.

Asia Business Intelligence is the work of Rich Kuslan, a consultant focused on the Greater China market. According to his blog Rich is Principal of AsiaWide Sales and Marketing Consultancy and a licensed NY state attorney. His blog posts offer news and commentary on Asian business events with a special focus on China. His goal is “to shed light on the events that the westerner sees, but the context of which he may not understand�?. Recent China posts focus on currency re-valuation and the Chinese domestic stock markets. Rich started blogging in 2000 and claims to post twice a week.

Asia Finance Blog

Analysis of developments in Asian financial markets.

Asset Allocator
anonymous author says his goal "is not to provide investment advice--it's to entertain and to make people think. Oh yeah, and to provide some humor." The blog contains poignant and thought-provoking charts, pithy commentary about the economy, market and sectors, and frequent collections of links to interesting articles. Although concise, the posts are infused with a level of intelligence that reflects the author's credentials: an MBA from a top 20 business school, a CFA, and a decade of professional investment experience with a 5-Star Mid CapValue equity fund and more recently as an Asset Allocation PortfolioManager. And yes, it's also funny. Launched in January 2005, with postsabout once daily.

Astrology of Markets and Current Affairs
is the work of Ali Mostofi. Mr Mostofi has spent the last 20 years tracking astrological day trading signals for stocks and currencies. During that time he has correlated every minute of every market day with angles made by planets. In his Beginner’s Guide, which is intended “to explain everything in a simple, almost childlike manner�?, Mr Mostofi explains that he uses the "normal" 10 planets, certain Asteroids and other stellar entities known as "Uranians". Mr Mostofi claims to be the authority on astrological trading; unfortunately he makes no mention of his performance. But this blog could still be highly useful to traders and investors: if someone says to you "Buy this stock!", on the basis of Mr Mostofi's tracking of Uranians you may be able to reply: "Amazing! Your suggestion is straight out of Uranus!". Mr Mostofi posts daily, and appears to have launched his blog in September 2004, just as an asteroid...

A VC
is written by Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures in New York City. Wilson's quality of insight on emerging internet and media companies has propelled his blog toward the top of the daily must-reads in these fields. Wilson describes his blog as an experiment; with that in mind, he posts a variety of revenue-generating ads (the proceeds from which Wilson donates to charity) and other plug-ins. Wilson threads within his business posts thoughts on music (he likes indie rock and includes some free tracks), but one can sign up for his 'VC and Technology' RSS feed if you'd prefer to skip these.