'Tyler Durden' . . . Zero Hedge . . . ? ? ?
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10 Things You Didn’t Know about Zero Hedge
http://moneyinc.com/zero-hedge/
February 19, 2019
Updated on April 8, 2020
Zero Hedge is a blog that is supposed to be focused on the financial markets. However, it is important to note that its reputation is controversial at best, not least because it spreads a number of financial theories that are considered to be either conspiratorial or flat-out wrong by most economists. Here are 10 things that you may or may not have known about Zero Hedge:
1. Its Writers Post Under the Pseudonym of Tyler Durden
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 of name was wholly unsurprising.
2. Founder Has Been Barred from the Securities Industry
3. Has a Reputation for Being a Bear
4. Believes in the Austrian School
5. Has Other Conspiratorial Views About Finance
6. Loves Personalized Attacks
7. Has Been Accused of Taking Other People’s Research
8. Claimed Up to 40 Writers
9. Lokey Criticized Profit Motive
10. Lokey Criticized Support of Authoritarian, Autocratic Governments
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
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