Term papers must be coming due from sea to shining sea. My site statistics are showing all kinds of interesting search terms that brought people here from (fill in the blank).edu. Sounds like Cold Spring Shops is seeing something similar.
Word of advice: Blogs themselves are not the greatest scholarly sources for term papers. However, they can be useful for your research. Most bloggers provide references (lots and lots o'links) with their posts. So if Google brought you here, I hope that you find a link to a paper, news item, government source or something else that can add that extra touch to your term paper. I can envision cases where citing a blog would be acceptable (even desirable), but you're taking your chances.
For next semester, I would like to make an assignment for my principles course that gets students reading the economics blogs and seeing what they are, what they aren't, and how they can benefit from them. I'll keep you posted.
Also in the category of "'Tis the season", my finals are done on Tuesday. Posting will be somewhat sporadic until then. Fortunately, I'll be done in time to comment on the FOMC meeting.
I had notced the same pattern on my blog, but wondered why. Your story makes sense.
Same thing at my blog. And here I thought it was my insightful analysis that was drawing readers!