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We miss you Tanta
second that
Tanta Vive! We sure could use some steel pointed bunny slippers about now.
Hey, there is Tanta!
wow.... just wow..... Tanta vive!
That is amazing and very touching.
Wow.
not that she needed or sought after praise or recognition, but I'm glad that she's getting some of both.
Wow. I've followed this blog since it wasn't a blog, since CR was a contributor on AB. I've seen Tanta as a commenter like us, then a co-blogger. It's really been an experience for me. Despite all of the bad news out there, it is a fine time we live in, that the intellect of one person can shine so bright over so many. That the pure voice of one can be heard over the voices of the sycophants and liars. Glad I found this blog (well, that I spotted CR on Angry Bear), and nice to see Tanta getting recognition. Woot for the inter-tubes!
Hooray for Newsweek. Including Tanta almost makes me want to re-subscribe to that weekly.
Way to go Tanta. Nice to see you getting the recognition you deserve.
7 is an anonymous blogger who changed the world.Tanta Vive!
Tanta vive!
(How can you miss someone so damn much when you never met them?)
we were spoiled by her presense here
she really was that good
WOW!
Double Wow!
we will remember.
Tanta is still shining brightly...
I was reading through a subject matter recently when I thought it'd be great if I had a person who could teach me this as well as I was taught mortgage securitization. At that moment, I wasn't even thinking it was someone from the web I'd never met.
Here is your transitions 2008:
The whole friggin board is flashing red. Too steep dive, exceeded max speed, terrain warning, front landing gear kaputt (not that we are going to need that much now), two engines just ripped apart from the left wing, flying on fumes, left flap stuck upwards, vertical stabilizer gone, cabin pressure gone (well, at least unconscious passengers do not scream) and the worst part is: no more COFFEE!
That liberal rag Newsweek praising Tanta?
Me thinks Rob Dawg's head exploded.
I wish Tanta were here to hold my hand in this new bizzarro financial world of ZIRP and NIRP.
We are now truly in the wilderness and the wild west as nothing is what it seems and we are now in uncharted territory.
I want my mommy or Tanta.
A ray of sunshine on an otherwise cloudy day.
Tanta Quondam, Tanta Futurus.
Impressive that a few short years of writing (and many years of "training") can rank Tanta (and CR of course) on a list with others who spent a lifetime.
But I must add, I sure learned more from Tanta than I did from the others on the list....even if she did have to beat me over the head.
Tom Stone, after her passing, a senior editor at the WSJ wrote me a simple note: "Tanta changed the world". I knew exactly what he meant.
Tanta did change the world. She made blogging respectable. She made it OK for journalists, newspapers, Fed researchers and others to quote anonymous bloggers.
Every blogger owes her a debt of gratitude - none more than me. And yes, canucklehead, she spoiled us all.
Best to all.
Wow! 2008 We lost a lot of great Americans! Her family has to feel proud. Surrounded by the likes of Hilary, Newman, Heston, Buckly, Carlin and Diddley...Many more..
au revoir et salut
Wow, Tanta on the list with Buckley, George Carlin and Paul Newman.
I guess her snout was not so reptillian..
lawyerliz,
In the spirit of Tanta, the correct spelling is 'reptilian' - unless of course that type was on purpose.
That liberal rag Newsweek praising Tanta?
Me thinks Rob Dawg's head exploded.
badger boy
There's room in my universe even for compassionate liberals. Heck liberals with a sense of history and the value of extraordinary individuals aren't really liberal now are they>
Pavel, if you like, I left you an answer in the previous thread :
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I truly miss her. Part of me won't accept that she's gone.
Amazing but I shouldn't be surprised. I've been telling all who care for a year and a half that CR was the place to go for REAL reporting on the housing mess. We all instantly saw the gifts Tanta thought enough to share with us.
It's great to see her get the recognition she so deserved.
It wasn't on purpose, as I am sure type instead of typo wasn't.
As always, I am in awe... did you see who she beat out to get number seven? Amazing. Just amazing. I'm going to remember, and miss so many things about her, and regret that I never knew her personally better than I did. She did shake a little stardust on all of us.
Tanta Vive!
I had a good memory a few days ago.
It was from 2 years ago in my real estate finance class. The professor was at one point an economist of Fannie Mae.
I sent him one of her first Urbernerd posts to see what he thought. I come to the class two days later and inquire.
Professor: Chuckles "Yea she seems to know here stuff...."
LOL!
......
That is unbelievable. Shows you how important Tanta and Calculated Risk are. I guess in this little corner of the universe people are making a difference. Too bad Tanta wasn't recognized enough for her brillance when she was alive.
I feel honored to have jousted with her a time or 2.
Tanta owes you a debt or gratitude, CR, as do we all.
Tanta Vive!
Igualmente.
Calculated Risk
works
Ok, it's in alpha order.... got too excited... still, as much as I like a good gun nut like Heston, I'd keep Tanta at least in 7th place. But below Bo Diddley.
Wow T,
You did it again !
W, sadly
thats fucking awesome.
i bet she would have been annoyed, but secretly a little tickled at the same time.
good for you tanta!
you made a difference.
It's appropriate that T was an English major, and she and all of us are working on developing a deepening a new literary art form.
Holy crap. That's awesome.
Just after Bo Diddley. I think she'd like that. Tanta vive!
As much as we all miss Tanta I feel compelled to note the additional passing of Gary Gygax. Apparently you can roll 1d20 for a zero. The passing of two ubernerds is indeed notable.
Now I'm all weepy again.
(I'll go back to counting your tax dollars being wasted)
...Our Christmas card is always unique...this year's theme is Survivor...Outwit, Outlive and Outlast
two of my greatest indulgences ended for me this year....The Wire ( the best TV show) and Tanta ( the best teacher )
..."But, both The Wire and Tanta';s postings can still be found at Netflix and CalculatedRisk. The Wire and Tanta vive."
Gosh, I miss her.....
CR, MP - anyone?
what to make of this : (damage to repo market for Treasuries from zirp)
FT.com / Capital Markets - Ultra-low US rates undermine repo market
I just want to say - make sure you click on a banner link every day for CR... I don't know the guy - but it is the least we can do for someone who as done so much for us all.
CR, that is flat awesome what that editor wrote to you, and one of the pithiest and deadly accurate observations from inside the belly of the beast.
Tanta_Vive
I didn't know that Michael Crichton died. That sucks too.
While Tanta was still on fire in these here comments and in full Ubernerd she was referred to by one of the financial print media types ( I forget which) as something like "one of the best financial writers in the world". So, unlike Van Gogh and many others, her genius was recognized while she was alive and kickin. She knew that everyone else knew that she was the shit.
Awesome to see this! Thanks, Tanta!!
Wow.
Perhaps this will prompt a member of Team Obama to actually read her.
Calculated Risk(Excellent) writes:
Tom Stone, after her passing, a senior editor at the WSJ wrote me a simple note: "Tanta changed the world". I knew exactly what he meant.
Tanta did change the world. She made blogging respectable.
At least in part because she insisted it be seen as such:
Dear reporters, we quote your stuff periodically, giving credit both to the reporter and the publication, under fair use terms. We have no objection to your returning the favor. If you have an editor who will not allow that, and you think that the problem can be solved by getting one of us to drop our online personas, give you our real names, and say the same thing to you over the phone, so that you can get your editor to accept it as something other than just blogging, which everybody knows is untrustworthy ranting by anonymous nuts, you are making a faulty assumption about the relationship among us, our birthdays, and yesterday. Neither CR nor Tanta wishes to play into a set of assumptions that render what we say on the blog as unworthy of coverage by the Big Media, but what we might say on the phone to Intrepid Reporter as good dirt and straight skinny.
Do you, can you, understand the implicit insult in that? You want to talk to us because of what we have written on this blog, instead of simply engaging with what we have written on this blog.
Appropriate recognition.....
Perhaps this will prompt a member of Team Obama to actually read her. - Markel
Let's be honest. Nobody with their hand on the tiller is going to read Tanta and take it to heart. They may look at the truth of her words but the response is sure to be anger and discomfort not acceptance.
Everyone takes different lessons away from her Ubernerds but pretty much everyone understands the way things were done won't stand. Sadly, government is predicated upon preservation of extant structures.
Tanta Vive indeed. So very sad that you're not here to share your wit and wisdom. I've learned much from your posts which reveal a wonderful ability to make the complex and mundane easily understood. All students should be as fortunate as we have been to have a teacher such as yourself.
bobn- I love that quote. In fact, if CR just put out a book of everything T ever typed, I'd buy twenty copies of the leather-bound edition.
Two things I find curious; although I adored Tanta, I didn't think she was that famous, even though she had a profound effect on the people who read her stuff, (75,000?), and also, the link in the story comes back to CR, while the others seem to list a Newsweek post.
Props to Jon Meacham , editor of Newsweek. He is one of the good guys of journalism.
sdtfs(Unrated) writes:
\tTwo things I find curious; although I adored Tanta, I didn't think she was that famous,
sdtfs | 12.16.08 - 8:33 pm | #
I think as time went by, CR (as well as other parts of what might be called "the Financial Armageddon blogosphere") acquired MSM lurkers.
Example: I heard Chris Whalen on CNN expressing his doubts about Geithner only days after seeing those doubts noted here(?) and on Naked Capitalism. Some people in the MSM are catching on to the treasure trove here on the InterTubez.
I refer to it that way because that site linked me here and to other sites.
Very inclusive list, great recognition for her, posthumously though. I miss her wit and passion.
Tanta Vive!
How wonderful Newsweek felt her works worthy of noting her passing so highly.
Recognition, while sadly in memoriam, but greatly deserved.
I feel special just for being able to have read her bloggings while she was posting.
Tanta: the legendary mortgage ubernerd blogger.
Patron saint to the blogsphere. Her contributions to educating the masses will never be forgotten.
I am sorry for your loss. I don't know how to better express it. The English language is such that the words divert the meaning in o! so many ways.
I know exactly how you feel.
God bless Tanta.
When the Madoff ripoff exploded onto the front page, and those who lost their investors' money shrugged & said "hoocoodanode", I think I saw Tanta hurl a steel-toed bunny slipper like a bolt from heaven.
Wish she was here.
An extraordinary recognition for an extraordinary person. CR, in case it hasn't already been said, you continue to shine here and beyond. Lest us not forget that you alone are responsible for giving Tanta a forum for her talents to shine, while also contributing your own sharp and unique insight on this uncharted time in our history.
But then again, it has always seemed to this N2S that humility and grace are among your signature virtues.
In any case, thanks!
Looking forward to my M-pig hoodie.
Tanta Blues
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone.
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling in the sky the message she is Dead,
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
She was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun.
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
Wow Tanta ended up part of a pretty spectacular class - Paul Newman, Bo Diddley, George Carlin and Tanta. No one wants to die but to be placed in memorium with that class - wow. A life NOT wasted.
How wonderful. I wish she were still with us though. : (
Truth and knowledge prevails.
A life lived as Tanta's must be celebrated!
We valued her as much when she was with us.
It's all sad with Tanta but Newsweek forgot film giants like Richard Widmark and Jules Dassin.