The Unknown Professor began blogging in 2004 as a "good way to keep track of all the random internet stuff" he comes across. His blog site, Financial Rounds, came together shortly there after; in a little more than 18 months, it has recorded 50,000 hits. This mystery blogger writes under the pseudonym "Unknown Professor" - name inspired by the late 70's comic known as the Unknown Comic - because he is as yet an untenured professor and would like to keep things anonymous until he is safely granted tenure.

Unknown assures us he's a college-level econ professor who graduated from a fairly decent (though not top tier) Ph.D. program. While he's been known to blog about "whatever strikes his fancy," he consistently writes about financial topics which can be heavily researched and confirmed by statistical analysis, with a focus on topics of legal interest such as the options backdating scandals and insider trading. He is 48 and lives with the Unknown Wife, and the Unknown Son and Daughter.

Visit his site: financialrounds.blogspot.com