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Critics of Zero Hedge label the site a "permabear" whose views missed the global recovery since 2013. [22] Zero Hedge maintains financial views/theories which are considered conspiratorial, and/or hard-to-prove or unprovable; [64] [21] notable views include: [e]
- Its Writers Post Under The Pseudonym of Tyler Durden
- Founder Has Been Barred from The Securities Industry
- Has A Reputation For Being A Bear
- Believes in The Austrian School
- Has Other Conspiratorial Views About Finance
- Loves Personalized Attacks
- Has Been Accused of Taking Other People’s Research
- Claimed Up to 40 Writers
- Lokey Criticized Profit Motive
- Lokey Criticized Support of Authoritarian, Autocratic Governments
The in-house writers for Zero Hedge post under the shared pseudonym of Tyler Durden. For those who are unfamiliar with the name, it refers to the Fight Club narrator’s hallucination, who is one of the co-founders of the titular Fight Club. Said novel was very popular with a certain subset of young American men in the 1990s, meaning that the choice ...
In 2009, it was revealed that the founder of Zero Hedge was a man named Daniel Ivandjiiski, who was born in Bulgaria but had been educated in the United States. It is interesting to note that Ivandjiiski had once been a hedge fund trader. However, he was barred from the securities industry by FINRA in 2008 because he had been caught engaging in ins...
Zero Hedge has a reputation for being a bear, meaning that it tends to have a negative opinion on the overall course of the economy as a whole. In fact, the blog is so consistently bearish that there are those who call it a permabear.
One of Zero Hedge’s most noticeable choices is its belief in the Austrian School of economics, which is named thus because it sprung up in late 19th and early 20th century Vienna. There are small bits and pieces of the Austrian School that has been incorporated into mainstream economics, but for the most part, it is seen as being heterodox for very...
With that said, a belief in the Austrian School is far from being Zero Hedge’s sole conspiratorial view when it comes to finance. For example, it thinks that central banks are intervening in markets on a frequent basis for the purpose of propping up prices. Likewise, it thinks that US investment banks are frontrunning the US Federal Reserve.
Content-wise, Zero Hedge is famous for its personalized attacks on finance professionals that it doesn’t like. For proof, consider the fact that it contains hundreds and hundreds of articles directed towards figures such as the commodity analyst Dennis Gartman and the economist Paul Krugman. This doesn’t mean hundreds and hundreds of articles direc...
Zero Hedge has been accused of taking other people’s research, adding its own slant to the interpretation, and then publishing it on its own without permission. This has happened to both Merrill Lynch’s chief economic David Rosenberg and Morgan Stanley.
At one point in time, a contributor claimed that up to 40 writers could be writing under the Tyler Durden pseudonym. However, when a Seeking Alpha writer named Colin Lokey came out to the public about his involvement in 2016, he revealed that there were just three writers using the pseudonym including himself.
Lokey criticized the profit motive that drove Zero Hedge’s writing, which the writers’ very luxurious lifestyle. He saw it as being particularly deceptive considering the blog’s use of an anti-capitalist, anti-establishment figure, which played an important role in attracting that crowd to the blog’s readership.
Besides that, Lokey also criticized Zero Hedge for its support of authoritarian, autocratic governments. On a related note, this is one of the reasons that some people see Zero Hedge as being affiliated with the alt right.
Jan 4, 2015 · David Rosenberg warns that some bears are way beyond irrational. He's clearly not a fan of Zero Hedge. More specifically, the chief economist at Gluskin Sheff thinks that the blog "is...
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Oct 30, 2023 · Zero Hedge sources from factually mixed think tanks such as The Mises Institute, which promotes Austrian (Anarcho-Capitalism) economics. Finally, during the Coronavirus pandemic, they have frequently promoted false and misleading information, as evidenced by failed fact checks below.
Sep 28, 2020 · After 84 years in operation, investment bank Bear Stearns nearly collapsed. The Federal Reserve bailed it out. JPMorgan Chase scooped up its assets. But days earlier, CNBC host Jim Cramer had...
Jan 26, 2023 · Some permabears will predict doom and gloom every year. Eventually, they will be proven right. But as investors, we shouldn't pay heed to these permabears as they are generally wrong.
