The Incidental Economist

Site: http://theincidentaleconomist.com/

Twitter: @IncidentalEcon

Thematically, this blog is roughly 40% personal finance, 25% economics/economy, 25% health care, and 10% other musings. I’m a health economist with an educational background in physics and engineering. I now have a joint appointment at a major research university and a federal government agency, and I study economic issues pertaining U.S. health care policy with a focus on Medicare. My interests include economics, of course, but also politics and personal finance. I’m my household’s CFO, I manage the accounting side of my wife’s small business, and I look after my two daughters. As I pursue my interests and meet my home and work responsibilities I encounter problems and notice interesting things. As I ponder them I’ll share my thoughts with readers of this blog. Hopefully what I find interesting and useful is of value to others.

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The Incidental Economist has a Wise Score of 61.08, which ranks it #187 among personal finance blogs.

Wise Score is an average of six statistics: MozRank, Number of Links to Domain, Klout Score, Twitter Followers, Alexa Rank, and Compete Rank. A Wise Score of 90 means the blog is better than 90% of its peers "on average". Learn more.

Date	Rank	Wise Score	MozRank	Linking Domains	Klout Score	Twitter Followers	Alexa Rank
2012-2-5	187	61.08	5.32	2,874	41.03	1,525	416,363
2012-1-29	185	61.41	5.32	2,874	41.39	1,506	390,133
2012-1-22	181	62.42	5.32	2,874	40.99	1,466	315,561
2012-1-15	173	62.76	5.47	2,874	41.04	1,443	315,561
2012-1-8	173	62.56	5.47	2,735	40.91	1,411	315,561

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@IncidentalEcon

Considering health care with a focus on research, an eye on reform.

Tweeting since 6 August 2009 (2 years 26 weeks)

Recent Tweets from @IncidentalEcon

Health policy valentines, ctd. http://t.co/jin96zOB #TIEpost
about 11 hours ago
On The Record (with daily recap) http://t.co/vdV6YY7H #TIEpost
about 15 hours ago
CBO: Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury by the Veterans Administration http://t.co/cPzhu4GC #TIEnews
about 17 hours ago
Reading list http://t.co/12gB3ZHX #TIEpost
about 19 hours ago
CBO: Materials related to Elmendork presentation to National Economists Club http://t.co/OStlCEv9 #TIEnews
about 20 hours ago
Will people eat less if you ask them to? http://t.co/s654ObHn #TIEpost
about 22 hours ago
Health policy valentines http://t.co/OIpG2gam #TIEpost
about 23 hours ago
On The Record (with daily recap) http://t.co/qeZZxI7o #TIEpost
about 1 day ago
Echoes of published research http://t.co/yZGo5nvg #TIEpost
about 1 day ago
Tea Party legal arguments: ACA SCOTUS Briefs http://t.co/lMdDkCMs #TIEpost
about 1 day ago

Recent Tweets about @IncidentalEcon

RT @aheblog: Read AHE Blog Daily ▸ today's top stories via @baronmoe @incidentalecon @kbloor @pecjournal ▸ http://t.co/jiKzPnzx
about 8 hours ago by PECjournal (Chris Carswell)
RT @LynnBlewett: I can no longer sustain your growth rates! #SGR #healthpolicyvalentines @shadac @afrakt @IncidentalEcon
about 8 hours ago by healthfunding (Health Funding)
RT @IncidentalEcon Health policy valentines, ctd. http://t.co/WgJWpx1n #TIEpost
about 10 hours ago by Biff_Bruise (David Napoli)
ummmm hum RT“@LynnBlewett: I can no longer sustain your growth rates! #SGR #healthpolicyvalentines @shadac @afrakt @IncidentalEcon”
about 10 hours ago by barryleetaylor (barry taylor)
More "wonky" valentines: “@IncidentalEcon: Health policy valentines, ctd. http://t.co/Sl5HgPFN #TIEpost”
about 11 hours ago by mrspicotte (Ms. Picotte)
I can no longer sustain your growth rates! #SGR #healthpolicyvalentines @shadac @afrakt @IncidentalEcon
about 11 hours ago by LynnBlewett (LynnBlewett)
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about 14 hours ago by BudgetHawks (CRFB.org)
RT @IncidentalEcon: CBO: Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury by the Veterans Administration http://t.co/cPzhu4GC #TIEnews
about 17 hours ago by Altarum (Altarum Institute)
RT @txindiejourno: #FF More Policy Wonks: @TimHarford @IncidentalEcon @afrakt @aaronecarroll @donaldhtaylorjr @koutterson @rortybomb @dylanmatt
about 19 hours ago by afrakt (Austin Frakt)
#FF More Policy Wonks: @TimHarford @IncidentalEcon @afrakt @aaronecarroll @donaldhtaylorjr @koutterson @rortybomb @dylanmatt
about 19 hours ago by txindiejourno (Teddy Wilson)

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Klout Score	41.03	The Klout Score is a 0-100 rating of @IncidentalEcon's overall influence on Twitter.
True Reach	496	True Reach is the size of @IncidentalEcon's engaged audience. Klout eliminates inactive and spam accounts, and only include accounts that @IncidentalEcon actually influences.
Network Score	19.13	0-100 rating of the influence level of @IncidentalEcon's engaged audience.
Amplification Score	9.00	0-100 score of the likelihood that @IncidentalEcon's tweets will be acted upon by their followers.

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Klout Classification of @IncidentalEcon

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You know how to connect to the right people and share what's important to your audience. You generously share your network to help your followers. You have a high level of engagement and an influential audience.

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finance health care economics politics personal finance	@sarahkliff (62.04) @khnews (57.11) @nielslesniewski (56.54) @afrakt (54.59) @ (54.4)	@rosenkris (47.86) @donaldhtaylorjr (44.58) @nhpc (41.29) @jamessmarks48 (38.2) @pkeane (37.79)

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SEMRush Rank	139,023	Rating of sites by the number of visitors coming from the first 20 Google search results.
SE Keywords	794	Number of keywords (search queries) the domain ranks in the top 20 Google (US) search results.
SE Traffic	4,042	Estimated number of visitors coming from the first 20 Google search results (per month).
SE Traffic Price	$6,556	Estimated cost of purchasing the same number of visitors.

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3	amazon.com	162	12,011,888	128,054,133	$112,842,653	3,282,990
4	nytimes.com	152	1,320,684	54,153,350	$27,227,287	1,867
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6	yahoo.com	136	9,810,537	180,131,202	$141,752,153	1,637,687
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8	economist.com	107	61,894	438,798	$900,187	1,268
9	google.com	103	2,151,720	144,491,474	$103,993,080	341,298
10	nih.gov	96	1,333,823	31,125,276	$65,681,927	271

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2	aetnamedicare.com	91	40,213	130,343	$550,790	1,342
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7	medicareconsumerguide.com	44	3,167	4,969	$24,266	627
8	medicare.gov	41	5,630	11,795	$31,829	22,592
9	aarphealthcare.com	40	16,359	46,157	$271,547	1,870
10	medicareinteractive.org	40	3,837	4,943	$11,136	1,344

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Referring .EDU Domains	20	Number of referring domains from EDUcational sites (only exact .edu TLD included; no regional domains).
Referring .GOV Domains	4	Number of referring domains from GOVernment sites (only exact .gov TLD included; no regional domains).
Referring IPs	2,165	Number of referring IP addresses.
External Backlinks	213,793	Number of external backlinks for this item.
Indexed URLs	27,610	Number of URLs for given item type present in index - these are NOT backlinks, but rather URLs belonging to given domain or subdomain: this metric is useful as an indication of domain content size.