Wed, September 24, 2008
High Anxiety
I don't write many blog-centric posts, but I've noticed something interesting in the past week. Last Monday, as the wizards of Wall Street blinked and the markets went crazy, traffic to the FFS Blog jumped by 4 or 5x. I assumed it was a one-day event, but as you can see from the attached Quantcast graph, traffic on the site has remained higher than normal.
A number of people got here by Googling phrases like, "are mutual funds insured," "are brokerage firms insured," and the like. The traffic hasn't dropped back to where it was, suggesting that there are still a lot of folks anxious about the safety of the financial markets. I hope the information here is helpful to you.
If any of my readers have questions that you'd like me to tackle in the blog, please drop a note to FFSBlog "at" FFSCambridge.com (I've avoided using the "at" sign to thwart spammers, but you know to substitute an @ for that). I can't promise to post on every idea I get – this isn't my day job, after all – but I'll seriously consider anything that comes in. Be patient, though.
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