I could play with this for hours: Aaron Schiff has developed the Economics
ChatterMeter, to see how much chatter there is in the blogosphere about
matters economic.
Interestingly, right
now everything seems to be at or near an all-time low, especially the results
for "bonds", "budget", "commodities", "credit",
"deficit", "fiscal", "monopoly", and, distressingly
enough, "portfolio". "Recession" and "unemployment"
are way down from their summer highs, which is probably a good thing.
Here are snapshot results for "cartel", "GDP", and "wages":