US: Doris Dungey (Tanta), Prescient Finance Blogger, Dies.

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**Doris Dungey (Tanta), Prescient Finance Blogger, Dies at 47 **

The blogger Tanta, an influential voice on the mortgage collapse, died Sunday morning in Columbus, Ohio.

Tanta, who wrote for Calculated Risk, a finance and economics blog, was a pseudonym for Doris Dungey, 47, who until recently had lived in Upper Marlboro, Md. The cause of death was ovarian cancer, her sister, Cathy Stickelmaier, said.

Thanks in large part to Tanta’s contributions, Calculated Risk became a crucial source of prescient analysis as the housing market at first faltered, then collapsed and finally spawned a full-blown credit crisis.

nytimes.com/2008/12/01/business/01tanta.html?_r=1&ref=patrick.net

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