Babeberg.com
| Babeberg.com | |
|---|---|
| Type of site | Financial news |
| Created by | Stan Switaj |
| URL | babeberg.com |
| Software | EaglePress |
| Written in | Python 3 |
| Database | PostgreSQL |
| Launched | 2026 |
| Current status | Active |
Babeberg.com is an American financial news website created, programmed and operated by Stan Switaj. It publishes coverage of business, markets, the economy and initial public offerings under the description Financial News, Trending News, & Money News. The site is built on EaglePress, the Python 3 and PostgreSQL content management system that Switaj also wrote, and is one of several of his sites running on that platform.
Coverage
Babeberg publishes in a small number of standing sections: Business, which carries the bulk of the site's articles, together with IPO, Economy, US Economy, Jobs Report US Economy and a general Babeberg category. Its recurring subjects are corporate acquisitions, Federal Reserve policy, public listings, federal spending and the United States national debt, and its tags reflect that focus — among them national debt, federal deficit, US economy, Trump, Biden and generations.
Articles take two forms. The shorter items are brief market and business notes filed as events happen, typically a paragraph summarising a development with a link to the wire or financial-press report behind it. The longer pieces are written features carrying an estimated reading time; the site's lead article on the national debt passing $40 trillion is presented as a full feature examining the rate of increase, the record of successive administrations and the generational distribution of the burden.
Coverage during 2026 has included the SK Hynix listing in the United States — priced at $149 per American depositary receipt to raise about $26.5 billion, closing its first day at $168.01 after peaking at $177 on 10 July 2026 — the acquisition of Airtable by Bending Spoons for $1.28 billion, Grant Thornton's $5 billion acquisition of CBIZ, a ten-year, $7 billion Oracle software contract with the Pentagon, a $9.6 billion purchase of the Seattle Seahawks backed by Khosla Ventures, Elon Musk's purchase of a gas turbine energy company, the Federal Reserve's July 2026 decision to hold interest rates unchanged, and the opening of the first Chipotle restaurant in Mexico.
Technology
The site runs on EaglePress, which is written entirely in Python 3 as CGI with a PostgreSQL database and no web framework. Babeberg uses firstTheme, the platform's original bundled theme, and its footer identifies the site as powered by EaglePress.
From the platform it inherits a category and tag system, full-text search, reader accounts with registration and login, light and dark reading modes, and a language switcher offering the thirteen languages EaglePress enables by default: English, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, German, French, Hindi, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew and Polish. Pages are rendered on the server and translated on the way out, so the language selection applies to the site's own interface rather than to the text of the articles.
Posts are published under an administrator account, and the front page lists them in reverse chronological order with pagination, alongside a sidebar of recent posts, category counts and a tag list.
History
Babeberg is described in Stan Switaj's biography as a financial news website that he started and continues to maintain. Its published archive runs through 2026, with the site moved onto EaglePress as that platform matured; the visible article record for the year includes material from May 2026 onward, and the most recent lead feature is dated August 2026.
The site is one of a group of publications Switaj programmed and operates, alongside the political news site AmericanPeoplesCongress.com, the community site Chatddit.com and the microblogging service EagleChirp.com.
See also
External links
- Babeberg.com — official website
