Econintersect: There were more than 10,000 page reads for the top fifteen news stories at GEI News in the fourth quarter, five most read articles for each of the three months. The most popular in the quarter was one from October about the U.S. birthrate declining. The three other top rankings went to a Bloomberg sourced story about Bank of America pushing high risk into its FDIC insured subsidiary (October), fraud in state unemployment insurance programs (October) and a hoax by a person claiming to be a surgeon with knowledge of government death panel programs (December). The top five list for each month follows:
October
South Florida Mortgage Fraud Indictments (14-Oct)
Bloomberg: Bank of America Piling Risk into FDIC Insured Subsidiary (19-Oct)
Fraud Robbing Unemployment Programs (19-Oct)
NY Attorney General: BNY Mellon Accused of Currency Trading Fraud (6-Oct)
South Florida Mortgage Fraud Indictments (4-Oct)
November
ECB Balance Sheet Explodes (11-Nov)
Military Health Care Could be Cut (25-Nov)
Commodity Brokerage Firm Closes, Says Markets not Safe (19-Nov)
All in the Family, Cyrus Mistry to Head Tata (24-Nov)
Naomi Wolf: Occupy has Objectives (27-Nov)
December
Surgeon Proclaims Death Panels Being Implemented (30-Dec)
30 Corporations Pay More for Lobbying then Taxes (12-Dec)
China Finds Huge Shale Gas Reserves (7-Dec)
Half of Capital Gains Go to 315,000 People (1-Dec)
Goldman Sachs: The U.S. Will Still be the Richest in 2050 (8-Dec)