thank you, david, for all that you’ve done to illuminate and educate, especially on the mortgage meltdown. hate to see you go, but understand completely your reasons.

all the best, and look forward to seeing what your future brings.

Dammit, you are one of a handful of truly vital reporters I look forward to reading regularly, and I am really really really (I tell you three times) gonna miss you. And even people who don’t realize it will miss you.

If you decide you still have something you need to say in more than one or two short sentences, you can have the keys to my shop anytime you like. It’d be an honor.

Best of luck figuring out what comes next David. It’s been great reading you over the long haul (though I’m insulted you left off The Right’s Field from your resume). You’ve developed in to one of the best reporter/bloggers on the great wide interweb and I’m sure whatever project you take on next will be just as informative and required a daily read as this one has been.

we’ll miss you dday! best of luck on what’s next and thank you for the tremendous service you’ve provided us all over the years. don’t be a stranger!

I will miss you. Your writing is pretty much the only thing that has kept me coming back to FDL.

David, you will be sorely missed.
Many is the time that I’ve learned more from your postings
on some topic in housing or the economy in one day than from the MSM in a month.
Please come back to visit.

Whatever shall we do without you?

It’s been a pleasure working with you, David, from the Prop 8 courthouse days. Are you sure you can’t reconfigure while staying here? Please consider it.

Thanks for everything you’ve done here. You’ve made a real contribution in so many fields, and I really hope you’ll think about how to keep doing that.

Thanks so much for everything, Dave. You’ve done an amazing job building up the news page and we still joke about the Dayen Brothers, because nobody could possibly churn that much out in one day.

I hope this time brings some clarity about where you what you want to pursue in the future. I still think you have a great book in you. And whatever you do, you know you always have a home here.

Ah, gee… I’m really sad to read this.

Wishing you an enlightening journey. May the wind be at your back all the way.

Please offer a forwarding address when you have one.

I don’t often comment here, but I want to tell you, David, that I’ve read your posts every single day since I first came to FDL a year and a half ago. You more than anyone else keep me clued in to the details of how things are going in this country, and how they ought to be going but aren’t. If it weren’t for you I never would’ve understood the mortgage crisis, much less the national settlement, the ongoing lawsuits, and the supposed housing recovery. I could mention dozens of other cases of which the same is true. Your intelligent, humble voice backed by your encyclopedic knowledge of all things political and your good heart has been really important to my thinking. Thank you so much for everything you’ve done here, and best of luck figuring out what it is you want to do next.

David,

You and your blogging are awesome and addictive! Your blogging will be a hard habit for me to break and impossible to replace. Thanks for your contributions to everyone’s knowledge and pushing people and policies in the right direction (especially in the mortgage/servicing areas).

I will miss you especially much.

David,

Thanks for all of your tremendous hard work. I think that you have a really good sense of ‘the story’ for news reporting and I will miss your writing. Hope you decide to return, soon.

Best,

TomThumb

I’m heartbroken. I’m an old timer from your Calitics days and have the deepest respect for your talent. I am happy to know you are able to reevaluate your life to find a better balance and deeper understanding. I have been going through that transformation for 18 months and I am a completely different person than I was when I started. I smile a hell of a lot more now! Good luck on your journey and thank you so much for keeping me informed.

David you’ve been just amazing and I still wonder if you do ever sleep. Thank you for everything you’ve done here! May finding your new way be a pleasant and swift process. :-)

Agree, triplets.

The range of complex topics on which you routinely retain mastery is staggering. The fact that you can convey movement on any of those with such amazing accessibility to such a wide audience may be even more of an accomplishment.

I have been fortunate to watch Alyona interview you on occasion. I think you’re very strong in those mediums.

Sigh.Sigh.
David, You have been my touchstone, through some really rough years. Like any such, I do not easily let you go.
I have however noticed that you seemed particularly dour in the past few months. As though you were so resigned to the failure of virtue in our government that you could barely bring yourself to comment on it, once again. I said, I think we are going to lose him. Sigh.
You have helped me tremendously, personally. I have gone through losing my business, bankruptcy and foreclosure, while listening to you explain, how it is systemic, and not so much my own failure. I will never be able to thank you enough for that perspective. It may have been life saving. (It is not so much the loss, as the guilt for the loss, that destroys responsible people).
This is to say, that your mission here at FDL, has had real, measurable, critical effects on very real people. Information is power. You have pulled some of that power away from the banks, and the corrupt government agencies and self serving powerful, and given a portion back to your readers. (Enough that we could find a thread of reason in the chaos).
Thank you.
Time comes when each of us must pick up our things and move forward. I sincerely hope that your next step is fulfilling. I also hope that you will show up in our lives again. Please leave footprints!!
Sincerely, Janis

Best of luck David and thanks for all of your hard work here. You should get a Pulitzer for your coverage of housing issues.

You’re the first thing I turn to in the morning. Your well reasoned and well informed takes on the significant issues of the day are valuable contributions to my own meager understanding of things. I will miss those things very much. Thank you, and good luck.

I don’t think running for office is the best use of your prodigious skills, but you certainly have the moral compass, stamina, and intelligence to do it.

DDay, thanks for a great education. Argh!
I’ll echo curlydan and other grateful readers and
say ‘your blogging will be a hard habit for me
to break and impossible to replace’.
You have been a touchstone for me – my main
filter for the news – and one of the handful
of commentators I really trust.
I wish you the best of luck during your
re-assessment period and future projects.

and yes, like TasteofFreedom, I’ll second you deserve a Pulitzer
for your coverage of the housing mess!

Oh No, you are my favorite and best source for a thoughtful and well researched point of view. I often steal your ideas in conversation! Best of luck and hope to see your writings somewhere else soon.

I would elbow you out for being the first to support Dday’s candidacy. However I do not believe that the PTB would ever allow him to be elected. He is way too smart. He is way too virtuous. How are they going to control him?

As one of the silent snoopers on FDL I must tell you how profoundly grateful I am for the enormous effort you have expended in attempting to educate everyone. I will remain in awe of your knowledge and abilities to sort through the bullshit being poured on Democracy.
Thank you for everything David.

I second that. I am gong to sound a lot dumber from here on in! ; )

Jane, we really need you to hire three more people. No joke.

Another sad day. The ability to effectively communicate in writing, is a gift. Now, we lose another communicator? Sucks.

Good Luck DD. Silence, is cancer.

Oh, man. This place just won’t be the same without all your blogging. You contributed so incredibly much, both in column inches and in insight. Hopefully you won’t leave here entirely.

But you certainly deserve a break, and many best wishes on whatever you decide to do next. A lot of us are eager to find out what that might be!

David, I am among those who sign on every morning to FDL to read your reports. Your work and the capacity to work is amazing. I am not surprised at the need for respite but the information and analysis you bring here will be missed more than any of us likely realize. Please continue some of your analysis posting as you can.

DDay, as FDL was the first blog I dove into, I’ve been utterly spoiled by your prolific production and brilliant assesments. All the best to you.

Thank you, my friend, for expressing my sentiments perfectly.

Dave, you have made a difference. Perhaps we’ll meet again.

David, I lurk a lot, but I have always enjoyed reading your reports and insights — which are almost always spot on! As one of those who got caught up in all the mortgage mess, it was always a help to me to know what was going on — and what wasn’t! Regardless, you have made a difference!

Somehow, I don’t think you will be far away… But I wish you the best of luck in getting things figured out!

Thanks David for three great years of service. You will be missed but I completely understand the need to try something new.

speaking as a dedicated lurker who checks in every day to read your informative and accurate reportage—you will be missed. Best of luck.

Thank you for your great work. I join others in saying you have been my primary source for keeping in touch with the news of the day, and you will be missed. I hope you will continue to be a voice for truth and clarity of thought, in whatever you choose to do next. Good luck, and thanks again.

Godspeed, DD; I love that you’re about to take such a leap of faith into a new future.

You really blossomed here, David, and your contributions will be sorely missed by me and a lot of others. Here’s hoping that everything works out for the best for you and yours.

Thank you, David, for all that you have done for the Great Educational Outreach. Your reporting, particularly around the financial idiocies of a certain period, is more than stellar. And, I hope that a book might be forthcoming regarding that period and all that you have gleaned around and about it, as well as some thoughts as to what ought to be done, by a sane and rational civil society, to ensure that such criminal fraud does not occur again (as undoubtedly it is intended that it shall).

You will be sorely missed, and I can imagine no one person who might, possibly, equal or even come close to equaling your prodigious output and suspect that it will require several persons, perhaps half a dozen, to simply cover the terrain you have staked out … not to mention providing the deeper analysis for which you are deservedly appreciated.

Frankly, I am not completely surprised by your decision, as I consider that you have any number of things you might well wish to accomplish and, I mean this sincerely, the rest of us have need of seeing and benefiting from your doing those things … for, whatever you choose to do, now and in future, it will inform, educate, and inspire.

Let me repeat, once again, my old suggestion and heart-felt conviction: The Rule of Law for everyone, and a Pulitzer for David Dayen!!!

It has been a genuine pleasure, David, reading your thoughts and pondering your considerations, learning from your perspectives and deep insights, and, occasionally, even provoking a thoughtful and much appreciated response from you … despite your utterly amazing “schedule”.

I wish you the absolute best.

DW

there must have been two of him.
absolutely the most amazing performance of stamina, depth, intelligence, clarity.
blessings.

Good luck. I think you really helped make this a place that focused on the core principles even as many ‘liberal’ online efforts seemed to morph into focusing on being mainly a mouthpiece for the whims of power.

The reality-based world will miss you greatly!

Ack. Can I just reject your resignation so you’ll stay? Seriously, though…the NewsDesk feature has been such a valuable part of FDL thanks to your hard work. Thanks so much for the years you put in here keeping us informed.

Damn.

David, I wish you the best of luck. Your voice has been a light in the darkness for years now, and I look forward to your writing every day.

I do follow you on twitter, and will of course keep an eye out for your new venture. I hope it is as successful as your time here has been, or more so.

Be well sir. Thank you for all you have contributed.

Jane – how in the hell will you ever fill the space? You’ll need to hire 3 people!

No two ways about it, it’s a big loss. Alles Gutes.

Just want to be counted with all those who express broken hearts.

I am not among the brighter stars in the night sky. I spend immense personal effort to choose the best sources of most true and intelligent information that I can find to trust. Given the realities of contemporary American media, the list seems to get shorter and shorter.

You have been on that list since the first blog read from you. How else can I say my heart is broken?

But, of course, with absolutely best wishes.

Many thanks, Dayen. I have always enjoyed reading you here and at Hullabaloo. You will be missed. Good luck in future–not that you need it. Thanks!

Oh David,

Now I have a sad. I don’t comment here but never miss at least one reading a day. You are a pro and you have a heart and I trust you.

Blessings in your future endeavors. Keep writing wherever.

December 6th, 2012, a day that will live in infamy…

there must have been two of him.

Peter, is the other one quitting too????

I am a lurker from the Hullabaloo and Calitics days and I’ll second what xanthe said, to wit,

You are a pro and you have a heart and I trust you.

FDL will survive but you will be sorely, sorely missed. Don’t get lost. I’ll need to read you wherever you land. Best of wishes David.

You’ll be missed, D-Day. (And all of those other guys who post under your byline. Wait: That’s all you? Whoa…)

We’ll all look forward to following your work whenever and wherever you land. Best.

Good luck, David. I’ve learned a helluva lot from your articles, here and from Hullabaloo and D-Day.

Prosper and enlighten!

I read your news diaries every day. You have great political insights and I appreciate your work very much. The diaries on the mortgage mess have been particularly enlightening for me. I thank you for all your work and wish you well.

David, others have already covered just about every reason I never missed your informative articles.

I wish you the very best and look forward to whatever comes next for you — I hope it includes continued reporting and analysis! You always provide clarity in a mixed up world.

Thanks for everything!

You have proven you are one of the good people and bless your heart and good luck with whatever you choose to do in the future. If I could be so bold to suggest some sort of Government service (politician?) in your not to distant future should be seriously considered. “If good men will not come to the service of their Country, others will.” John Adams

David,
Words fail. You have been the first, middle and last read of the day for years. Your insight and spot on analysis are without parallel. The shear volumn of work you manage in a day, every workday, is a continuing source of amazement. I for one will miss your work a great deal. Best of luck in whatever you decide to do.

DDay, you will certainly be missed. Good luck to you.

Thanks for what you did here at FDL and at Hullabaloo.

David, I was always overwhelmed by the amount of work that you produced day after day. The time that it took for me to read as much of your work as I did must have only been 1/10 the time it took you to gather the material, digest it, analyze it, and put it into coherent, in-depth form. Every time I saw your by-line, my first reaction was “he already has another one that I must read.” I would second the idea that you should get a Pulitzer, but I know that the msm could not afford to recognize you as being better than they are, so justice will not be served (just as the banksters are not indicted in spite of your exposing them). All the best to you.

Dave…..bet you break 200 posts today. Maybe 3.

“If good men will not come to the service of their Country, others will.” John Adams

Wwe should get that guy to repalce David.

We will miss you and hope that maybe you’ll write an occasional diary. Best of luck in whatever you decide to do. Thank you for the amazing amount of information you have given us – it’s not to be found any place else.

A Programming Note???

You bastard! You’re abandoning us to the “liberal blogosphere” that you’re not even sure exists anymore?

And you think we’re going to take this sitting down? Just let you sneak on out of here and stew in our own progressive juices? Flailing helplessly?

How could you?

All the best, DDay.

Nooooooooo! You and Kevin are the only reason I still come to FDL. I’m sure it’s been mentioned above but your in depth reporting on foreclosure fraud and everything surrounding the financial crisis and the crooks on walk st. has no equal. It will be truly missed. You are an important voice for the progressive community and we need your voice to help level the playing field with truth.

The amount of work you provided FDL is crazy so I can definitely understand your position. But I don’t know if you know how valued you are and how much you will be missed. FDL will not be the same without you. Another one bites the dust.

best of luck to you. thanks for your stellar work here.

David, you will be missed for you great reporting and insight. Peace.

uuufff! I feel a very deep pang of mourning to read that you are leaving. You are too modest, way too modest about your contributions here.

I’m feeling the same deep pain as I did when Buster Posey had retirement forced upon him by a broken leg. (really, that is not trivial to me..a local SF Giants fan!). But he came back…better than ever!

You have chosen retirement from this site (yay) and I wish you the best in sorting out your next move. Please do come back and let us know what you are up to. You are an MVP here at the Lake and I will miss you greatly.

Good luck!

David, we will miss you very much. It has got to be difficult, as a writer this environment at this pace, to find a balance between niche, audience, business and art, and it seems to me that one can lose ones own health and identity in the engulfment process. We wish you peace and good health, and we will continue to look for you on Twitter.

All the best,

Rachel and Fred

Really enjoyed your writing, all the best to you in your future endeavors.

Damned Mayan calendar!

Imagine thinking we could get past the 21st of December without something huge happening.

You’ve inspired many, taught us all, David. Remarkable accomplishments–repeated daily.

And thanks so much for letting me try and be of some assistance with the Roundups.

Waking up with this is not what I was looking for!

David, so much of what you posted here shaped certain perspectives and fleshed out others that were pretty thin. I’ll miss that greatly.

I understand the feeling of being on a treadmill, and have myself stepped back and took a look.

I changed my career at that point.

But marvel of marvels, 20+ years later, I was invited back into the old profession, this time not on the treadmill. So I hope the best for you and am confident that you will open up in ways surprising, even as I have.

Best of luck, and keep on writing!

Damn, I read this news with a great deal of sadness . . . Mr. Dayen, what you have brought to my eyes with your fonts has been one of the BEST educations one could ever hope for.

I never understood (still) how you could cover so much, so often, so well, in providing your readers with such a broad based daily schooling one would have to spend days on end trying to get on our own.

N there it was, day after day, topic after topic, laid out for us in a manner that made it easy to consume your mass quantities of knowledge, news, info and opinion.

I for one, will really, really, really miss you on these FDL pages. I wish you the BEST of all things you will ever want, and I know Mz. Hamsher will bring FDL forward in your absence in ways we don’t yet know . . . but you WILL be sorely missed by THIS Larue.

Thanks for all you have given to us Mr. Dayen, you are a treasure for us readers and will alway remain so in our hearts and minds.

Slainthe!

Wow this is shocking news. I think you were one of the best bloggers out there DDay. Even if the “general new cycle” type of blogging has changed (though personally I don’t now what has changed) I think what you do is vital if there is even going to be a “blogosphere” on the left.

There are a slew of issues I don’t have to wade into the MSM to learn about when I can just read your work, and that means quite a lot. Your voice is one I know I can trust and can always come to, and I know I”m not alone. Who will ever fill the shoes you are leaving under your news desk?!

Well whatever you turn to, it better be as vital and wide-ranging as what you do now. And one more thing, FDL is losing DDay and yet keeping TBogg around? I certainly hope that isn’t a bad sign!

That is a terrible, terrible shame for those of us who found your reporting invaluable – one of, if not even the best thing about this site.

All the best and thanks from the bottom of my heart for all you did. Hope you restart in the field somewhere, someday and that the treadmill isn’t so overwhelming next time.

Incredible performance. Quantity and quality. Your insights into the financial mess, housing, budgets, etc. — maybe one of the areas you’ve drilled down — are so helpful. Helps to be a fluent writer, I suppose, but still amazing.

Yes, shift, change gears, hopefully to find another way to carry the progressive banner. The folks at the WH, and other seats of power, must be breathing a bit of a sigh of relief.

I might not alway agree with you but I do want to say Thank You for all the hard work. I hope the next thing is wonderful for you.

Thanks Again DD

I am excited for you David. I has a sad for all of us. Your insight is my daily bread. Thank you for all that i have learned from your writing. And i will be looking forward to what’s next. Best to you. Oid.

When you, Yves Smith, and Matt Taibbi collect the Pulitzer prize for Journalism on the foreclosure issue, I will say I knew you when….

Haven’t read the other comments and tributes but know you have been an invaluable resource and I look forward to your future endeavors.

Congratulations on opening a new chapter and thank you for making me a smarter progressive. You are a daily must read.

And….I’m glad you aren’t going the Bill Watterson route of dropping off the face of the planet. I look forward to seeing where you pop-up next.

Say it’s not so, D-Day. Man, you’ve been like a real machine cranking out all those articles. You differently have a gift. I know an over achiever, like yourself, will be successful with whatever you choose to do. Best wishes.

I’ve never commented before but wanted you to know how much I’ve enjoyed the reading. Good luck in your future endeavors.

Keep commenting. I think you owe me a beverage for great minds thinking

alike(an FDL tradition).:)

Incredible job, David – a mere “thank you” feels inadequate, but will have to suffice.

If anyone’s earned the right to breathe, relax, and ponder, it’s you, baby.

Wishing you the very best – with little doubt you’ll continue to be great wherever you land in the future.

Good luck to you! You’ve been one of the few sources of news I’ve felt I could trust. Thanks!

Nooooo! You provide too much good information and education everyday. I always look for your take on things. We need your voice. I hope it will keep coming.

And yes, like so many others, I was astounded by your intelligent, well-reasoned, informed output.

and to whoever picks up the News slot – no pressure :)

uffda & dayam. I’m in awe of your writing skills and your prolific output, i rarely miss one of your posts. BUT i am glad you are stepping back to do what is in your best interest. I’m also glad i already follow you on twitter, so i will be able to follow wherever your writing next appears as a regular feature. All the best to you!

The best to you David, because you are..
May your star always shine Clear, Bright, and True.

I will miss you, David. I rarely commented, but I faithfully read most of your informative posts, and wondered how you managed to keep up and have any kind of other life. I hope the future treats you as well as you richly deserve!

All the best, DDay. Your insigtful, fact-filled, educational articles will be sorely missed. Your future is very bright. Thanks for all you’ve done so far.

David, I’ve been astounded daily at the breadth of your knowledge and volume of your output. This community is richer and stronger for the work you’ve done. Thank you, and best of luck!

Thanks so much, David. Best to you. You’ve taught us well.

Hail and farewell, David. You will be sorely missed. Your posts were my guide through the cluttered newssphere.

Good luck in whatever you do after.

Who’s going to play drums for KRUGMAN & THE FIREBAGGERS now? I have the band’s picture on my office wall. It gives me a chance to explain to office mates and clients who they are and how excellent they are at what they do.

Bless you, DDay. I’ve been so grateful for your writings, tho mostly I’ve tried to keep up on all you’ve had to say about the foreclosure crisis. You’ve been able to make this housing activist understand so much about things I’ve known nothing. Like some, I’ve come to FDL only for you, and especially
since Scarecrow left. May the Lord heal him entirely so that he and his great writing can return and may the Lord give you clarity in your vocational discernment process.

Blessings and thanks,

You’ve been one of the things that made this blog with visiting, David. Hopefully, you can figure out how to stick around while you retool. If not, I hope you’ll be on the Intertoobz again somewhere.

x2 regarding the Mayan calendar’s alignment with your departure, as well as the impact your remarkable accomplishments have had and most likely will continue to have on your readers.

fork

i will miss you and i will miss your posts, david.

please stay in touch

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Exactly!

David, Thank you. I really can’t imagine FDL without you, DDay. I’m sure that FDL will continue to do great work, but it won’t be the same without you. As the Buddha might say, “Sukhī dīghāyuko bhava” (May you live long and prosper). Good luck!

David, thank you for the incredible work you did here at the Lake. I’m not surprised you are retiring. Given the pace you worked, it is hard to see how you were able to stay sane, much less comprehensible. Yours is among the best writing on the web, like Bilmon’s was on a different axis. Your posts have been a fixed point for all of us.

All good things must and do come to an end. Thanks from the bottom of my heart. Hope you’ll drop in here from time to time. We could use the lift.

I can just hear it……………

“Today, today, today………I feel like, like,, like like….the luckiest man, man, man, man, on the face of the earth, earth earth.”

Apologies to baseball fans everywhere. BUt you deserve it dave.

Nicely put Knut.

David, I thank you for all that you have written. You write well and your analysis is nearly always right on. What you have said about (non)-regulation of the banks and the foreclosure crisis has been very helpful.

I will miss reading your blog posts. I wish you the best wherever you end up.

Mayan Apocalypse indeed!

This is bad news.

and I wish to also say

I plotzed when I saw this, but
shalom dave you’re a mentsch.

I also wish to say that one of my favourite moments reading your stuff is

when you would drop in to respond to some comment or other, usually in a conclusive manner.

It was rare, but a lot of fun when it happened.

More than once I’ve wondered: how does David pull this off? Does he sleep? Does he have elves? I’m immeasurably better educated on the issues vital to me, thanks to the cogent writing and spot-on analysis reliably appearing here.

Well… congrats, David. Get some sleep. Climb a rock (if you do that). Write a book, or several — please. I’m already awaiting your next appearance.

(Jane, better hire those elves.)

Like so many, my reaction is DAMNIT but at the same time I myself am moving on right now and SO happy to be doing so — after all, you don’t want people to be HAPPY when you leave.

Thank you SO MUCH for your good work and best wishes for the future.

Sometimes the winds of change blow and they should not be ignored.

Thank you DDay for finally revealing why the Mayans threw in the towel after 12-21-12 ; ) I’ve been wondering.

Seriously, this is crushing news. Your posts have long been the cornerstone of my daily news.

Like Knut though, I understand that all good things come to an end. I thank you for all you have written over the years. I thank you for helping so many of us understand not just policy but the process, as depressing as both may be ; ) You will be truly missed.

Best wishes for all your future endeavors!

Another mostly lurker raising my head to thank you for the unbelievable amount of crisp, clean writing you did here. The only blogger I can think of who comes close to matching your ridiculous output (quantity/quality) is Steve Benen.

There’s not many I bother following her anymore (still love the book salons though!), but I have read you more days than not since you landed here from Digby’s. The place will be much the poorer for your absence.

Thanks and happy travels on your recursive walkabout.

This is a huge loss.

Thank you for all that you have done, David, and I look forward to following/reading you again, whatever you decide to do.

All the best to you as you take the time to decide what is the best path for you.

Seconded!

Damn. Shit happens. For what it’s worth,

Ka-plah!

It’s terrible, terrible news for us, but we are all greedy & selfish about the Lake cuz of all that we get from it and all that we are allowed to give back when we have time. So even though it sort of feels like a member of the family is moving away (or to another country?), and that we might never hear from you again, I am very glad to know that this is not happening because you finally broke down like the old One Hoss Shay.

Just ten days ago I dove back into the capitalist cesspool after an involuntary 4-month break, and I had to stop reading you except late at night after work. (FDL is NSFW, in the kinds of places I infiltrate for work.) So I became completely dependent on your News Desk to keep me in touch with fact-based reality amid the swirl of insane corporate screamers & propaganda robots on every teevee & cable channel and in the press.

News Desk! We didn’t even have a real news desk before you got here, now look at us! I hope we will thrive like you say, but it’s backbreaking work and you did an awesome volume of it every day for three years. Thank you very much and good luck, Dday.

you can never leave now, fatster!

Oh, just reading this after a long day….my reaction, too, is “Oh, no!” but…given how much you posted, it’s certainly understandable that you say you can’t keep up with other things going on in the world. “A step back,” yeah, I’m kind of in a place like that, too, though I don’t think I work as hard as you.
As so many others have said, I have often wondered when you sleep, how you produce so much great “content” with such complete sourcing, fact-based and with excellent analysis. It has been a marvel to read.
I, too follow you on Twitter (though lately I’ve been too busy to read Twitter!), and will look forward to following you when you decide what to do next.

Thank you so much for your work here (I read you first at Hullaballoo), and best wishes for the future.

Dave, thanks so much for your efforts. I’m quite heartened to see you go. Your page was the first place I went, and is one of the few analysis sites I trust.

I know you said it tongue in cheek, but I don’t think a thriving progressive blogosphere exists either anymore; at least not outside FDL.

David,

I don’t know how you do it – and I’m saddened (for myself) that you won’t be doing it anymore. Good luck, although anybody that works as hard and as well as you hardly needs it.

Thanks for all the news.

David,

Simply put, there are no words that can express my disappointment of your planned departure from fdl. I’ve long wondered how such a prodigious and talented journalist Jane could hold onto, given the site’s limited budget and roster of people like Kevin. I tried to understand how you could not only investigate your subjects, but to write so comprehensively. Please reconsider leaving. I will follow you whatever path you blaze though.

Thank you so very much for your coverage of the mortgage crisis and foreclosure fraud. As a victim of such, your coverage has been invaluable. You will be missed by many. Good luck in your future endeavors.

David, I have appreciated your thoughtful and serious analysis for all these years. You are the one person whose opinion I consistently look for on a subject. Best of luck whatever you do next.

I am very saddened by this news.

I have benefitted from your prolific talent and knowledge. Thank you for your stellar work. I wish you all the best.

Thank you so much for your postings here, David. Over the last few years, my morning has not been complete until I checked in on what you were writing about that day. I have learned immeasurably from reading your posts and am forever grateful for your insights and explanations of so many issues. I wish you the best of luck and much success in whatever venture you pursue from here, and will be looking forward to reading you again where ever you may end up. Cheers.