David Haggith
David Haggith started writing about the economy after he predicted The Great Recession half a year before it hit and was puzzled as to why no economists or stocks analysts saw it coming. In the months after the crisis broke out, he started to write humorous editorials in a series called “Downtime,“ which chided the U.S. government and banking people who should have seen the economic collapse coming but whose greed, cronyism, and ineptitude caused them to run all of us into this mess. These articles were published in The Hudson Valley Business Journal, The Valley City Times-Record (North Dakota), and The Daily Herald in Tennessee. He is dedicated to regularly criticizing the daily news — not just the content but the uncritical, unthinking nature of almost all of the reporting. Haggith now writes his own blog, The Great Recession Blog, to break down the same news from the point of view of an equal-opportunity critic toward both Republicans and Democrats / Conservatives and Liberals.
