About the newsroom
Macroeconomic Woes is a thematic portal about the machinery behind published economic numbers: how a price index, a tax bill, an escrow deposit, a poverty threshold or a betting-tax receipt is actually computed, by whom, from which inputs and as of when. It sells nothing, recommends nothing and forecasts nothing.
What this domain carried before
This domain has two earlier layers, and both are still here.
The first is a signed macroeconomics column published between October 2024 and February 2026 — commentary on credit markets, income disparity, banking, real estate, energy and politics, spread over fourteen categories. Its longest piece, The Macroeconomics of Deleveraging, used to sit on the front page itself; it now has an address of its own, with the byline it was published under and its footnotes intact. The authors of that period are listed, in their own words, at Contributors (archive).
The second is a set of commercial reviews of gambling sites, written in English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, German, French, Spanish and Romanian. Those pages carry paid placements that predate this portal. They remain at their own addresses, with their text and their links unchanged — see Other languages — and they are not editorial material. What this portal does with that subject is different: Gaming economy treats regulated gambling as an industry with published statistics — handle, hold, tax distribution, helpline call volumes — and offers no play advice and no bonuses.
Nothing was deleted to make room for the portal. Every page that answered before still answers at the same address, and the old material now sits inside the sections it belongs to rather than in a single undifferentiated feed.
Who writes it
New material is signed by Macroeconomic Woes newsroom, collectively. There are no personal bylines on it, for the same reason there are no invented quotes in it: a name would have to come from somewhere, and inventing one to decorate a page is the first step towards inventing the rest. Material inherited from the earlier layers keeps the byline it was published with, because that byline is part of the source.
What it does not do
It does not tell anyone what to buy, hold, borrow, insure or wager. It does not rank products. It does not forecast prices or rates. Where a question has no published answer, the page says so instead of filling the gap — the reasoning is set out in the editorial policy.