For posterity, a link to The Compleat ÜberNerd - Tanta's magnum opus on the mortgage industry.
It is a great example of how blogs can be used for outreach, and were of tremendous utility to the readers at the time they were written.
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Tanta, one of the co-bloggers on the extraordinarily good blog Calculated Risk has passed away.
She was infamous for her übernerd series of technical posts and analysis of micro and macro issues in the mortgage and finance industry.
She'll be missed.
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