Tanta was the ABSOLUTE BEST writing on the financial crisis as it was happening. You've made it when Federal Reserve Bank of NY cites your blog in a footnote in their research report.
https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...
The CR blog was not the same after she passed away.
Agreed, Calculated Risk was required reading at the time. So much insight.
(On Tanta's passing: https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2008/11/sad-news-tanta-pa...)
On a different but related note, I also really enjoyed the Compleat Ubernerd, written by Tanta, all about mortgage servicing in the mid 2000s: https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2007/07/compleat-ubernerd...
I'm not sure how it has aged (no Dodd-Frank updates, the author has passed away) but it was glorious in its time.