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2015 Greatest Hits: Presenting The Most Popular Posts Of The Past Year

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One year ago, when looking at the 20 most popular stories of 2014, we were troubled by a recurring thread: "despite the just concluded 6th consecutive year of a rising S&P 500 - the longest such stretch since 1999 of what otherwise would be deemed optimism - despite what should be a steadily improving economy and improving social and economic conditions, what readers founds most fascinating, and troubling, was the increasing preponderance of social disobedience, of covert, proxy or outright wars, and of civil unrest: all phenomena that accompany a world sliding deeper into distress, not as most central banks and their puppet media would have us believe, a global recovery."

We will be the first to admit that while it is more difficult to find a coherent theme unifying the most popular posts on Zero Hedge as determined by you, our readers, in the past year, several major domestic socio-economic tensions all came to a head in 2015: class warfare in the US approached unprecedented levels with antagonism between races, genders, ethnicities, ideologies, age groups and incomes all approaching peak levels, and spilling over, literally, on the street as the US public was inundated with daily reports of mass shootings, of trigger-happy policemen, of petulant students demanding conformity, of a president demanding the population hand over even more constitutional rights, of a nation torn in the most volatile presidential race yet.

All this took place as the median income across the US continued to decline: the rich got richer, the poor got poorer, and the middle class was officially put on the endangered species list, although in 2015, for the first time since the financial crisis, the market closed red in no small part due to the action of the Fed, which after seven years of ZIRP, hiked rates for the first time in nine years despite all other central banks "giving it all they've got." 

For those trading, it was a year of rising, and in many cases, brutal intraday volatility, of ever more flash crashes across virtually all asset classes, of pain for anyone who was not invested in the five largest companies, and overall a year of change and losses for those hoping the Fed would "have their back" no matter what.

Meanwhile, the geopolitical situation outside of the U.S. got decidedly worse, with the Syrian global proxy war resulting in the first instance of a NATO nation attacking and taking down a Russian fighter jet in decades, but more importantly, in a historic refugee crisis that will alter the face of Europe for years to come, as well as unleashing a wave of terrorist events which are likely just beginning, as governments across the globe seek to exploit the crisis for their own selfish reasons.

Overall, it was a year of flux and of dramatic change: change which was largely amorphous and chaotic in 2015 but which will crystallize over the next 12 months, in unpredictable and, sadly, violent ways. Perhaps this change is why 2015 was a record year for Zero Hedge: for the first time this website clocked in over half a billion page views thanks to record readership.

We thank all of our readers for making this website - which has never seen one dollar of outside funding and has never spent one dollar on marketing - a small (or not so small) part of your daily routine!

But before we get into the details of what has now become an annual tradition for the last day of the year, those who wish to jog down memory lane, can refresh our most popular articles for every year during our brief 6-year existence, starting with 2009 and continuing with 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

So without further ado, here are the articles that readers found to be the most popular over the past year.

  • In 20th place, with 560,000 page views, was the event that for millions of Greeks was the defining event of the summer, the year, and perhaps, a generation: the complete collapse of the country's financial system, and the imposition of capital controls: a regime of financial repression that will remain with the insolvent German colony indefinitely, as we first showed in "It's 2 In The Morning And Greeks Are Lining Up At ATMs; Alpha Limits Online Banking."
  • In 19th place, with over 571,000 reads was a simple chart post, one which summarized "Obama's Recovery In Just Nine Charts." The post was popular because it succinctly captured what everyone knows too well: for the vast majority of the population there has been no recovery, just spin and propaganda. We hope the next update of these 9 charts, due some time in 2016, will show some improvement but we doubt it.
  • In 18th spot, read 604,000 times, was our explanation of a phenomenon that has perplexed none other than the career economists at the Federal Reserve, one which we solved in "The Mystery Of The "Missing Inflation" Solved, And Why The US Housing Crisis Is About To Get Much Worse." We demonstrated how, despite persistently weak CPI, for a record number of Americans renting is now prohibitively expensive, a finding which together with the adverse effect of Obamacare, explained why despite countless predictions for a surge in consumer spending (due to "plunging gas prices") consumers did precisely the opposite and not only did personal consumption and expenditures decline, but GDP tumbled, ending last year just under 3% and subsequently sliding to just above 2%: a confounding paradox considering the Fed recently launched a rate hiking cycle just to "demonstrate" how strong the US economy has become.
  • In 17th spot, and deservedly with over 626,000 page views, was the man who has been right all along: Ron Paul explained how "Reality Is Now Setting In For America... It Was All Based On Lies & Ignorance." Unfortunately, his message has yet to be believed and appreciated by the majority of Americans, many of whom prefer to stick their head in the sand and pretend that all is well, but sooner or later they, and everyone else, will come to grips with the truth, unpleasant as it may be.
  • In 16th place, with an impressive 632,000 reads, we revealed the man who serves as the "ISIS connection" with the western world, and the source of funding for the Islamic State. "Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey's President" caused shockwaves across the globe, leading to a dramatic reappraisal of the ISIS conflict in the past month. We hope that as the influence of NATO member Turkey on the Syrian conflict wanes, that peace may finally return as a handful of corrupt Turkish politicians can no longer make billions in profits from the death and misery of thousands.
  • In 15th spot, with nearly 650,000 page views, was a post touching the barely beating heart of America's centrally-planned regime, the Fed Chairwoman herself, who entered the history books by being the first Fed head in nearly a decade to raise interest rates. Many wondered why. The answer was provided by her when "Yellen Said Negative Rates On The Table "If Outlook Worsened." We await the Fed to realize it has committed what many admit was a "policy mistake" and for Yellen to enter the history books for another dubious achievement: lowering rates to negative for the first time in US history.
  • A curious tangent on US social commentary was found in the 14th spot, in which we and 668,000 other readers listened as a professor slammed both the "Thin-Skinned Minority Ruining This Nation", and damning the "Political Correctness" Wave Sweeping America. Sadly, the willingness of increasingly more "smart, progressive" young men and women to trade their fundamental rights to expression just to avoid any conflict and reside in the "safety" of an emotional cocoon, is one which leads to a dangerous state of uniformity and ultimately to the failure of all individual rights and liberties. We hope this trend is reversed in the coming year.
  • In 13th spot, and reverting back to the core economic and financial malaise eating away at the US, 680,000 found out that "Texas Pulls $1 Billion In Gold From NY Fed, Makes It "Non-Confiscatable." To be sure, 2015 was another year in which gold suffered, however with central banks around the world continuing their debasement of fiat, it is only a matter of time before the age-old question has to be finally answered: hard or soft money. Perhaps 2016 will be the year.
  • Related to that last question, was the 12th most popular post of the year, in which hedge fund legend "Paul Tudor Jones Warned that "Disastrous Market Mania" Will End In "Revolution, Taxes, Or War." This is something we have warned since the beginning of this website, and is hardly a profound observation: history is littered with "French Revolutions" which spontaneously happen when the impoverished majority has had enough of the status quo and rebels against the tiny minority which sets the status quo. The outcome is always tragic, and is why since the beginning we have been trying to warn anyone who cares to listen that the path this nation is on will have devastating consequences unless something changes. We hope that as more people agree with us, that some tangible change will finally take place.
  • But we are pessimistic. The reason for that is while the plight of billions of people gets worse despite constant daily distraction, a handful of plutocrats continues to control everything, and does so entirely for their own benefit. We revealed this tiny group and their agents in "Meet The Secretive Group That Runs The World", the 11th most popular post of the year. With nearly 700,000 views we are happy that the group's actions and identities are at least a little less secret.
  • Stepping away from the secretive cabals of finance, we shift to what has been perhaps the most important geopolitical event for Germany, if not all of Europe, and judging by the US reaction, for many Americans as well: in 10th spot, 705,000 were quick to read that "10,000 Syrians Are Headed For The Following 180 US "Refugee Processing Centers." The final number may well be greater, and while we know where many Syrians refugees will end up, what we don't know is how they will be welcomed and treated in their newly adoptive country.
  • In 9th spot is an article we wrote in September in which we showed that "The IMF Just Confirmed The Nightmare Scenario For Central Banks Is Now In Play." We were referring to the gradual realization by the tenured economists that both the ECB and the BOJ are increasingly more cornered and are running out of things to monetize, and thus, of ways to boost manipulated market ever higher and surprise with ever bigger bazookas. And yet, even though the post was read by 717,000, countless asset managers were "shocked" when first the ECB and then the BOJ, both expected to reveal the latest and greatest bazooka, sprayed the market with a water pistol. The FX losses for those caught on the wrong side of these trades was astounding.
  • In spot #8, with 763,000 reads was a shocking update by Vladimir Putin, who claimed that "ISIS Is Now On The Ropes As Fighters Desert After 60 Airstrikes In 72 Hours." To be sure, Russia's involvement in the ISIS conflict, and its "blitzkrieg"-like success against the Islamic State led to quick and dramatic consequences, chief among which was the US once again folded on its demands to replace Syrian president al Assad: the second time in two years. For a nation for which installing puppet leaders is ordinary course of action, this dramatic derailment of US national policy by Russia has led many to ask if the world is once again truly multipolar.
  • In 7th spot was an article revealing the curious congregation of tankers filled to the brim with oil off the coast of Texas. Indeed, nearly 800,000 were shocked to find that "Something Very Strange Is Taking Place Off The Coast Of Galveston, TX", that something being that with no storage space to accommodate the millions of barrels of oversupplied crude, the oil would have to float on the ocean until either supply slowed down dramatically, which seems unlikely for the time being, or demand surges, which for a world sliding into recession is also impractical. The result: the price of oil dropped another 30% in 2015, suffering its worst back to back decline in history.
  • In 6th spot was a tragic reminder that every major geopolitical action tends to have deadly consequence, and just weeks after Russia boasted of its military success against ISIS, the Islamic terrorist organization blew up a Russian passanger jet departing Egypt. Nearly 830,000 saw the morbid video clip ISIS made of the exploding airplane. The result was an even more furious military campaign by Putin which ultimately went after what we said should be the goal all along: the Islamic State's financial lifeline - its crude oil infrastructure and its sales of balck gold to Turkey and other willing buyers.
  • In 5th spot we go back to a prediction we made back in 2014, namely that as a result of plunging oil prices, the death of the Petrodollar had finally arrived. Many ignored our observations of the dramatic liquidation of Chinese Treasurys which started in early 2015, although eventually everyone noticed, even the biggest banks and 872,000 read that "China's Record Dumping Of US Treasuries Leaves Goldman Speechless." Since then, the historic liquidation of foreign reserves by petroleum exporters and sovereign wealth funds has been dubbed a "reverse QE", something which will only accelerate in the future with dramatic results.
  • Related to the above was the 4th most popular post of 2015: over 900,000 were surprised to learn that "China Confirmed It Has Begun Liquidating Treasuries, Warns Washington."Will China continue to strategically sell US paper, or will it use it tacticaly as a "diplomatic" tool? And will others join? Now that the seal has been broken, expect to see many more "surprises" such as this one, as it is increasingly every player for themselves in a world of currency and trade (and proxy shooting) warfare, and where mixed messages by central banks leave everyone confused.
  • It is no surprise that the third most popular article of 2015 was one which turned the official narrative of the Syrian war on its head, as it revealed just who is stoking the Syrian war. Over 1 million read that a "Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US "Created" ISIS As A "Tool" To Overthrow Syria's President Assad." In a world where transparency of motives of governments working on behalf of corporate interests is critical, we hope many more such articles will expose the hypocrisy and duplicity not only of the U.S. but every other regime that openly lies to its people, just so a handful can benefit from death and suffering.
  • The second most popular article of 2015 was one which followed in the aftermath of fears, that a cyber attack had taken down the NYSE. We, as well as 1.1 million others, asked "Is This What The First World Cyber War Looks Like: Global Real Time Cyber Attack Map." Subsequently we found out that the NYSE suffered a historic outage simply because someone had "updated the software" incorrectly, although in a time when cyber terrorism is increasingly prevalent, we expect to revert to the real time map of  cyber attacks on many more occasions in the future.
  • The top post of 2015 was one in which we - and 1.2 million others - asked "Why Is WalMart Mysteriously Shuttering Stores Nationwide For "Plumbing Issues"?" The answer was revealed a few months later when WalMart shocked the investing world by revealing just how dire the financial situation at this iconic US retailer truly was, a revelation which cut the price of the largest US-based employer by a third and allowed its online competitor Amazon to finally surpass it in market capitalization, a historic moment in the tension between the old and new economies.

With all that behind us, what is in store for 2016?

We don't know: as frequent and not so frequent readers know, we do not pretend to be able to predict the future and we don't try (despite endless allegations that we constantly predict the collapse of everything): we leave the predicting to the "smartest people in the room" who year after year have been dead wrong. We merely observe and try to find what is entertaining, amusing, surprising or grotesque in an increasingly sad world.

We do know, however, that after $14 trillion in liquidity has been conjured out of thin air by the world's central banks, and the tens of trillions of credit money created (and misallocated) by China - a country which was the world's growth dynamo for the past three decades and which is now rapidly slowing down - the entire world is floating on an ocean of excess money, which for one more year has succeeded in masking just how ugly the truth beneath the calm surface is. Now, with the Fed hiking, as the tide starts to come out, those swimming naked will finally be exposed. How far will the receding tide go?

We are confident, however, this in the end it will be the very final backstoppers of the status quo regime, the central banking emperors of the New Normal, who will eventually be revealed as fully naked. When that happens and what happens then is anyone's guess. But, as we have promised - and delivered - every year for the past seven, we will be there to document every aspect of it.

Finally, and as always, we wish all our readers the best of luck and success in 2016, with lots of trading success, and depart with our now traditional and unwavering year-end promise: Zero Hedge will be there each and every day helping readers expose, unravel and comprehend the fallacy, fiction, fraud and farce that the system is reduced to (ab)using each and every day just to keep the grand tragicomedy going for at least one more day.

 

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Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:06 | 6984135 Fester
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I hope 2016 is even better!  

 

Happy New Year

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:25 | 6984179 Bad Attitude
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Dear Leader promises to make 2016 more "interesting" and chaotic.

Forward (over the cliff)!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:31 | 6984192 greenskeeper carl
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Happy New Years fuckers, it's been an interesting one, a lot of you guys thought this was our last normal New Years last time around, who knows what the next year will hold, but if it's anything like the last one, it will be interesting, at the very least.

Cheers.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:46 | 6984228 Oracle of Kypseli
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I am on my 7th year at ZH and it's still my daily ritual to read it and be rewarded by knowing the nuts and bolts of the way the world works, as well as being able to connect the dots.

This has helped me make the right decisions in all aspects of life.

Happy new year to all my mates at ZH and a big thank you to Tyler.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:59 | 6984261 BoNeSxxx
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Love the Greatest Hits!

Thank you Tyler(s) for another year of angst-filled sleepless nights as you cover the global shit show like no other.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:02 | 6984271 Keyser
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2016 is lining up to be even more bizarre than 2015... Barry's last year in office is going to be a doozy... 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:28 | 6984326 clymer
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Happy New Year Tyler, et all (and Sacrilege for keeping the lights on)

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:30 | 6984334 Croesus
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Happy New Year! 

I wish all of the writers and readers the very best (even if I don't always agree). 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:38 | 6984351 espirit
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I agree to disagree.

Where Be Boris?

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:54 | 6984386 Theosebes Goodfellow
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Here's wishing all of my cynical, jaded, dry-eyed, unblinking associates on ZH a Happy and Prosperous New Year! Cheers, mates! I certainly do appreciate you all! Where the hell IS Boris?

Peace the fuck out! (PTFO!)

Warmly,

Theo G.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:00 | 6984403 chumbawamba
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SEVEN YEARS, BITCHES!!

I am Chumbawamba.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:03 | 6984412 KesselRunin12Parsecs
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+1 2 u Chumba (f_s), thru the good x & the bad

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:17 | 6984449 TeamDepends
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May you all have a Happy Ending to 2015!

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 00:22 | 6984547 old naughty
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And we will be there each and everyday reading what you exposed...

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 02:00 | 6984652 CPL
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The writers and the site deserve every counter hit for working hard.  To ZH and it's steadfast determination to improve the fouth estate and to informing the public trust of all the shenanigans and horseshit that goes on.  Great job. 

Happy New Year!!  Now sticks down, laces tight and GAME ON!

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 05:28 | 6984775 The Juggernaut
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"The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure." --Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823.

"The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information." --Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Paganel, 1811

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 06:10 | 6984789 zhandax
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Jug, while printing and press have diverged into wildly disparate concepts in the last decade or so, the underlying concept is still laudable.  Thank you Tylers for attempting to keep the waters pure.

And to the rest of you mugs who have been here for years rather than weeks, may you experience optimal outcomes in 2016.  I appreciate you far more than my ability to express allows.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 09:16 | 6984909 Took Red Pill
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Alternative news sites, especially on the internet, have greatly helped to educate people to what's really going on. I can't even watch or read MSM anymore. It's so full of lies and propaganda. ZH is among the best if not the best. Thank you Tylers for all your non-stop hard work over the years. Thank you fellow readers for your unfiltered comments. It really makes the site! Many times I learn more from reading the comments than the articles themselves. I hope everyone has a healthy and happy 2016!

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 11:35 | 6985125 MANvsMACHINE
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Looking at those reader numbers, whether it's 500k, 1MM, or just 50k, the impact of ZH has been so valuable to the lives of many but the true measure won't really be known until everything plays out and we can look back, assess the devastation, and see how better prepared we all are as a result of us all tuning in to ZH. To me, this is ZH University, the most important institution of higher learning in existence and a big hat tip to many of you who comment as there's a lot to be learned from the ZH community.

A big thanks to the entire ZH staff and wishing you and your families a safe and prosperous 2016.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 04:40 | 6984754 Bananamerican
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5 years 48 weeks of GLOOOOM (& doom of course).
I've never felt more refreshed.
I sometimes wonder if there are common elements to those who've remained (besides probable inclusion on .gov watch lists)....Innate Skepticism? Patriotism? Aversion to Bullshit? Attraction to the Big Picture?
or is it just the lure of the "Revealed Truth" (one of the most powerful lures, for good and ill, over the curious human mind)
Happy New Year (I hope). May you all inhabit Safe Spaces in 2016 yourselves while continuing to fight Political Correctness whenever you run across it... It's important to do so.
Fri, 01/01/2016 - 06:28 | 6984803 zhandax
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BA, no one prints the truth in a breaking story because it most likely is not known yet.  You must filter several news streams to arrive at an estimate of the truth.  And just as in gold panning, some streams are richer than others,  Personally I find this to be one of the richer streams.  Doesn't mean every nugget is gold, but the odds are better than the alternatives.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 07:29 | 6984834 Tall Tom
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Truth is as beuatiful as poetry.

 

The problem is that most people do not appreciate it, want to read it, or want to be bothered by it.

 

Truth is not Polictically Correct as it does not seek to pander to the least common denominator but seeks to enlighten the receptive and to convict the guilty.

 

Happy New Year.

 

It will be interesting if we so shall live through it.

 

For some, if not many, it may turn out to be our last year.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:38 | 6985327 Bay of Pigs
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#DoomChubsMatter

Happy New Year bitchez....

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:43 | 6985344 centerline
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If not 2016, then perhaps 2017 or soon thereafter.  The end process is already in motion and picking up steam.  Evident in the gravitation of people to the Trump campaign.  The political class is pulling itself apart.  The usual tricks are beginning to cause opposite effects. 

But, sadly, somewhere between this and the next era of world history lies a really nasty place where a lot of people are going to check out, one way or another.  Hard to say how it happens, where it is worst, etc.  Best we can do is enjoy the moment and do our best to watch and react to changing times (stay nimble in every sense possible).  Above all, be kind... and willing to help others.  

Happy holidays everyone at ZH and Tylers.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 12:36 | 6988043 solidus
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I think maybe a disturbing feeling that something is not quite right and an inability to ignore it.  I remember starting to wake up when I realized the Fed was buying U.S. bonds and the visual in my head was that if I took a $5 bill out of my left pocket and put it in my right pocket it didn't mean that i had $10.  Back then I felt I understood about 5% of what I was reading on ZH.  Now I'm hoping I'm up to 30% or so which is progress in understanding reality and a strike against the ever increasing cognitive dissonance of society.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 12:36 | 6988044 solidus
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I think maybe a disturbing feeling that something is not quite right and an inability to ignore it.  I remember starting to wake up when I realized the Fed was buying U.S. bonds and the visual in my head was that if I took a $5 bill out of my left pocket and put it in my right pocket it didn't mean that i had $10.  Back then I felt I understood about 5% of what I was reading on ZH.  Now I'm hoping I'm up to 30% or so which is progress in understanding reality and a strike against the ever increasing cognitive dissonance of society.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:04 | 6984418 vq1
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My first year on ZH. Breath of fresh air. See everyone next year. 

 

Ppt- sorry bout the coal filled santa rally.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:16 | 6984446 DanDaley
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Four years...I've learned a lot here, so thanks, bitchez.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 02:27 | 6984671 Jim in MN
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Party on, Tylerz!!!

Loves me some ZH, like many of the Old Ones, mostly a lurker, sometimes a flaming looney

'Skating away...on the thin ice of a new day.....'

Peace and luck be with you all this year.  Stay frosty!!!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:46 | 6984231 SickDollar
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HAPPY NEW YEAR ZHERS AND TYLERS

ONE WISH , PLEASE CREATE A PHONE APP, SO I CAN READ REAL NEWS AT WORK WITHOUT BRWOSING

THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL BITCHEZ AND REMEMBER IT IS A BIG CLUB AND YOU AINT PART OF IT BITCHEZ

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:06 | 6984285 BoNeSxxx
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p.s. And thank you my commenting brethren. ZH, where you come for the articles and stay for the comments. Happy New Year Bitchez. And what platitudes would be complete without a final 'Fuck the Fed' for 2015? Fuck the Fed!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:48 | 6984356 Yen Cross
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Works for me.

  May, Mr. Yellen boil in an giant cauldren of debt in '16.

  Federal Reserve December '15

 The N.Y Fed tried to sneak this spread -sheet by us. Look @ the time stamp.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 02:30 | 6984672 Jim in MN
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Hee hee.  I was at work today......with all kinds of signature authority......but then I am a 'nice guy'.   Or, um, depends on the orders?

Keep on kickin it Yen, always a fan.  Don't forget to tip your trading hand while drinking on airplanes or whatever it is you do.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 03:52 | 6984729 Yen Cross
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 It's no secret Jim.

 I trade. I don't drink when I fly.

 My short cable vs majors trade for '16.

 The middle of the bond curve looks tasty.

 Can you be more specific?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:53 | 6985384 Jim in MN
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I am always interested in hidden tensions in the major exchange rates.  Also in USD strength and its effects on gold and oil.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:07 | 6984427 vq1
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I am very pleased with ZH as is. If I were to ask for anything, it would be a mobile app. And I HATE mobile apps. 

 

Samsung s4

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:52 | 6984245 OldPhart
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Tyler and Zero Hedge staff, thanks for the articles.

Tyler(s), Zero Hedge staff and commenters, thanks for the education.

Happy New Years 2016.

The rest of the year is almost certain to suck.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:21 | 6984311 Normalcy Bias
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OP, thank YOU for your entertaining as hell stories, Brother. You are a ZH treasure. Happy New Year!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:32 | 6984339 MsCreant
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You are right about OP and you are in that category as well.

Ya'll can be sweet when you want to be.

We don't always agree on this website (thank God) and I love the freedom to say what we think and disagree. That too is a ZH treasure!

Happy 2016! [Gosh, who did I offend? Do I need to edit that to Happy Holidays? Do others start the New Year differently and feel oppressed by my saying that? Fuck it, my fellow Bitchez! Get drunk and screw!!!!!] 

Whaaaaaaaaa Whoo! Happy New Fucking Year!

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:43 | 6984359 Normalcy Bias
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Thank you, Ma'am. That's high praise coming from you. I generally just try to make a few people laugh in what is becoming an increasingly dark world.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:01 | 6984405 KesselRunin12Parsecs
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@MsC

 

You & I have locked horns over the years (as well as vs, KITO & FONZ, though both were my friends)

 

You REMAIN as the 'most likely' candidate that I'd enjoy sipping a beer with & shootin' the breeze!' HNY!

 

f_s

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:25 | 6984462 MsCreant
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Love it!  Make it wine. ~~~~

I have clearly NOT been paying attention this time. 

Glad to know what I know.

Happy New Year!

You should be amused to know I have been both defending and existentially troubled by the Muslim issue. At least I am consistent (like you) yes dear one? Jou know what I mean?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 02:11 | 6984651 KesselRunin12Parsecs
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mwah!...  f_s (wine it is then)

 

We're flipping the calendar, but it's all, still, mostly the same... I HOPE that the latest generation will have the cojones 2 peer thru the DAILY.

 

Speaking of 'generations', wanna get a glimpse of what I was doing 20 years ago?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 03:54 | 6984407 Yen Cross
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 I'm liking O/P. He's a nice person with some really good ideas.

 * being broke is an temporary situation... Being poor is an state of mind.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 08:12 | 6987628 OldPhart
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I went from being poor to being broke by actually changing my mind.

I really appreciate your recognition of it, and, Yen, I generally love your posts.

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:45 | 6984342 espirit
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@O P & N B & Ms

Thank you both & Ms... it has been entertaining and enlightening.

A joy in this dismal era.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:00 | 6984402 espirit
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...and thanks to the ZH family.

Right, wrong, or indifferent - we be here.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 05:56 | 6984791 StychoKiller
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Well then, time to make a donation! (think of it as a subscription fee)

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:19 | 6984193 TeamDepends
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How are those plumbing problems coming along Walmart? Cheers!https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=00hH5hVGqns

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:35 | 6984345 MsCreant
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About "Plumbing Problems"... is that a euphemism for being unable to get it up?

(sales you guys, sales)

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:54 | 6984385 TeamDepends
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No, definitely not. Too bad there's not a testosterone penny dish for men. Got too much? Leave some! Not enough? Take a few!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:27 | 6984467 MsCreant
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I hope you know I meant Wall Mart...

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:40 | 6984494 espirit
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@ MsCreant

ZH Women are irresistible 'donchaknow'?

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:51 | 6984509 TeamDepends
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It's true, where's Miffed?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 03:27 | 6984715 Miffed Microbio...
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Finally got home from work and couldn't pass up this thread. Thanks Team and all of my ZH family for being here when I thought I was alone in this insane world. I owe all of you so much and I am honored to have found friends among so many greats who walk these hallowed halls.

You have made me laugh, made me question my perceptions, made me cry and pissed me off so fucking badly my husband nearly shoved my IPad down the disposal. Thanks for every second and I can't imagine anywhere else I'd rather be.

Stay safe, stay strong and see you all on the flip side, wherever we find ourselves.

Forever Miffed ;-)

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 09:43 | 6984932 NuckingFuts
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Miffed: I'm glad we didn't lose you. I wouldn't have blamed you one bit, but vey glad you decided not to let the assholes of ZH (usually newbies) ruin it for you.

An idea for a ZH resolution: how about everyone just calls people by their real name? Hitlery, Obomber, Shrub, etc.... Is really old and unoriginal.

Teacher says, every time a bell rings a trader gets its wings (or horns and pointed tail).

Peace to ALL bitchez!

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 14:52 | 6985748 Bay of Pigs
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Having met Miffed and her hubby in Maui face to face I can tell you she is a first class person and a very good soul.

Happy New Year, Peace and Aloha to the entire ZH crew...

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 16:29 | 6986052 Miffed Microbio...
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And we were so honored to have met you my dearest. Kindred spirits can be found in so many unlikely places and we are so thankful for ZH for bringing us together. Next time we must have akak come too if we have to fly to his island! ;-)

Warm hugs and best wishes for the coming year,

Miffed;-)

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 10:05 | 6984962 nmewn
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My head hurts, my feet stink, the law only applies to "the little people" so my new years resolution is to burn any remaining faith or trust in it to the ground while laughing maniacally as it blows away in the wind...AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Happy New Year to one & all ;-)

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:48 | 6985365 centerline
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Hi Miffed.  I hope all is going well.  If I recall correctly, you were going through some hard times the last time I saw a post.  Glad you are still here.  Look forward to hearing from you in 2016.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 17:54 | 6986294 Miffed Microbio...
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Yeah, my world has become a bit more challenging, roller coaster vs the carousal. The good thing is I am far more appreciative what I have now and no longer spend so much time dreaming for the future or living in the past. Sad that it takes tragedy in ones life to propel one to reassess it.

Funny how items I received for Christmas seem to be lost from memory except for the apocalyptic zombie board game my daughter bought me. Having the family all around, drinking an laughing as we destroyed zombies and helping each other survive pestilence seems like the perfect theme for our get together this year.

Happy New Year,

Miffed;-)

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:58 | 6984517 MsCreant
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There has been a moment or two around here that you had my back and I was grateful for it! You're fun!

Thanks and Happy New Year!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:55 | 6984387 KesselRunin12Parsecs
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I can only 9 speak for myself...

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:11 | 6984421 Rusty Shorts
Fri, 01/01/2016 - 01:36 | 6984638 Adahy
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Alihelisti itse udetiyvsgvi!  Happy Grecian New Year hedgers!!
Here's to hoping we make it through another.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 01:40 | 6984641 Rusty Shorts
Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:36 | 6984201 Fuku Ben
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I thought for sure the top story would be "insignificant regional power" Russia cock blocks NATO and kills ISIS in Syria.

Thanks ZH for the extremely flexible unsafe zone for commenting, Tylers and Authors for your posts and commenters for the laugh and learn free for all.

Happy New Year everyone!

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 01:01 | 6984599 Takeaction2
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I read the articles here on ZH and then STUDY the comments.  YOU GUYS MAKE THIS THE BEST SITE EVER.......even the fucker that posts he makes $7000 a month on every fucking thread......LOL

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 01:17 | 6984617 glenlloyd
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There's just some things you don't want to see swimming naked...Yellin, Bultard, Fischer....you get the picture.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 11:37 | 6985142 toady
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I get the picture... Now how do I un-see it?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 01:51 | 6984649 Larry Dallas
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Love it! Thank you Tyler(s)!

PS Bang Dae Ho!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:09 | 6984142 EuroPox
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Most popular story for 2016?  TRUMP wins in a landslide.

 

Happy New Year!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:31 | 6984191 willwork4food
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2nd most popular story for 2016?

TRUMP rounds up democrates for placement in FEMA camps nationwide.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:39 | 6984210 cheeseheader
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Thanks, he could start with Erric Schmmitdt, Ms. Jarrrett, Johnn Brennnan, Jaames Cooomey, well, you get the drift.

 

Next come the legal traitors on the suppremes; and of course all 535 members of you-know-what.

 

Term limits Now!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:05 | 6984279 fockewulf190
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I can picture "Trump Trumps the Establishment" reaching a cool 2 million.

I can also picture "The Great Reset Has Begun" frying servers en masse.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:32 | 6984333 clymer
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More popular fantasy headline, "Trump waltzes over during debate and punches Hilary's fucking lights out. Feminists outraged."

..or better yet Tulsi Gabbard happens to jump security and hop on the stage to do it

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 01:18 | 6984619 glenlloyd
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That would be so cool....

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:05 | 6984282 Keyser
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They should start with the delicate liberal snowflakes protesting in our universities across the country... A few months of re-education boot camp should wake their sorry asses up to reality... 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:11 | 6984440 vq1
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From a business standpoint, "I like low interest rates," Trump said. Yet he added that "from the country's standpoint, I'm just not sure it's a very good thing, because I really do believe we're creating a bubble."
On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not mention the Federal Reserve in her otherwise policy-laden inaugural campaign speech in New York City on June 13. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have said that the Fed should be held more accountable in its regulation of, and relations with, big banks, but have not laid out their positions on monetary policy, either
Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:15 | 6984143 KesselRunin12Parsecs
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GREEK & OBAMA are in the top 2 'positions'?

 

OK, well.. Well? That about sums up 2015 for me!!! MERRY NEW YEAR [bitchez]! :-)... Ha-Ha-haha-HAAAAAA

 

~~~

PS ~ I am Naga Eboko, exchange student from Cameroon.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:35 | 6984200 Doña K
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"GREEK & OBAMA are in the top 2 'positions'?

You need to read the articles before commenting. They are actually the last two.

Nonetheless, welcome to ZH.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:03 | 6984416 Theosebes Goodfellow
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¡Feliz Año Nuevo, Doña K!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:41 | 6984213 TeamDepends
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Naga Eboko from Cameroon!!! It is Jimmy Spliff from Jamaica! (Both) Mbula mbula mbula m-hey mbula mbula mbula m-hey! Merry New Year!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:27 | 6984296 KesselRunin12Parsecs
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Dona K needs to put down the New Years Eve bourbon, &delve, (a little further), into the 'gap inspired' heirarchy of ZH...

 

That is... inbetween times when her Israeli MIC tech 'HUBBY' (that she brags about often), isn't either HATEboning her in the @ss, or Syrian & Palestian civilians, as the case may be... (&, all the while, she was wishing it was ME instead, HATEbombing HER)...

 

In a certain abberation of an existence, I WISH I had the luxury of being able to 'THINK' like the Dona K's of the world...

 

- Marry a jew (one of the ones who makes money, of course)

- pop out a pup or 2 and pretend that makes people give a FF about me

- have a sip of wine & pretend that my BUBBLE WORLD makes my opinion amount to anything except the 'paid attendants' whose stipends are earned in SCHEKELS...

 

~~~

So, Dona K... "You need to read the articles before commenting"... [U sure about that]?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 00:38 | 6984575 conscious being
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Was that nice? I want to suggest you resolve some woman issues. Donna K. deserves a Fight Club, out of the blue mugging? I don't think so. 

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 02:02 | 6984656 KesselRunin12Parsecs
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I guess u haven't been around (as long as u think).  But that's OK ~ cheers anyway! f_s

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:13 | 6984152 Boris Badenov
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I'm hoping that in 2016 ZH starts to follow up on some of those important stories, especially #1.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:03 | 6984275 Philo Beddoe
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I am hoping that all articles in 2016 feature a picture of tits. Tits sooth me. 

No matter how bad things get.....we always have tits. 

Happy New Year. 

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:45 | 6984366 MsCreant
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Tits, chickadees, and titmice, whatever you call them, are adorable. They among the most vocal birds.  

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:21 | 6984419 TeamDepends
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Check out our vid above and you'll observe a nice pair of, um, Asian Warbling Yokos. One of our fave party toons.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:08 | 6984428 KesselRunin12Parsecs
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Let's NOT get into an analysis about 'tit's 2 hours before the New Year, shall we not? I was hoping to postpone those urges for another few hours AT LEAST!!!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:17 | 6984431 Theosebes Goodfellow
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~"Tits, chickadees, and titmice, whatever you call them, are adorable. They among the most vocal birds."~

I couldn't agree more. The bigger the honkers the better, I say, (though I may live to egret that). [blush]

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:18 | 6984452 grunk
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Go to Goodshit, a/k/a http://extragoodshit.phlap.net/

Skews liberal, but interesting articles.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:13 | 6984153 God
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How about the most unpopular fucking comments of 2015?

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:20 | 6984170 Taint Boil
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MDB? But he is the exception to the rule.

Down = Up for him ….

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 14:42 | 6988388 cooky puss
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Yeah, MDB hands down!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:25 | 6984178 Normalcy Bias
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That would have to be that arsehole that kept telling us how his wife's cousin's sister made thousands of dollars a week from the comfort of home.

To find out how, go to www.ShoveaGoProUpYourAss.com

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:40 | 6984190 Yen Cross
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lol !  I think , foneystar, and all of his aliases, deserve " honorable mention".

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:42 | 6984216 cheeseheader
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Buddy, let me buy you a drink tonight!!

 

Happy New Year.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:00 | 6984267 Normalcy Bias
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Happy New Year to ALL of you 'hedgers, even the fuckin' trolls!

Let's hope the year of 2016 is better (even though all reason indicates that it will suck even worse than 2015).

CHEERS!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:18 | 6984300 Implied Violins
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If we are back here posting on a 'best of' thread next year, then we will have won, with the worst behind us. Let's pray we all get there.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:31 | 6984336 Philo Beddoe
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Gold soars above $100 as pressure mounts on fiat confidence while Silver cracks $.10 for the first time in 4 months.  

We win!!! A bag of shit...but it is all ours. 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:25 | 6984322 Kefeer
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The optimistic-pessimism is truly ZH!  Crap-Happy New Year!  :)

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:22 | 6984313 Kefeer
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lmao..thank you very much.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:27 | 6984184 Ralph Spoilsport
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 That would have to be Escrava Isaura. She's worked hard for it.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:53 | 6984247 TeamDepends
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Eirik Marx-Leninsson by a socialist mile!

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 02:42 | 6984679 Implied Violins
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Mao Mao, Mao Mao ma Mao Mao ma Mao; Pol Pot, Pol Pol pa Pol Pol pa Pot; Idi Amin, Idi Idi Amin, Idi Amin Amin...etc.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 09:51 | 6984939 NuckingFuts
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To keep it simple, how about the most tired, worn out, old "parodies" of politicians names. If I never read them here again it would be too soon.

Example:
Ogolfer

Any others? I know you got 'em.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:14 | 6984156 Taint Boil
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Been waiting all year for this …. [cricket noise]

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:15 | 6984157 Wannabee
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Are you kidding me, A Walmart post #1?
We ARE screwed...

Regardless, cheers ZH & ZH'rs...

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:50 | 6984238 __Usury__
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from ZH 2014...........lots of wisdom in the comment section of ZH

''But before we get into the details of what has now become an annual tradition for the last day of the year, those who wish to jog down memory lane, can refresh our most popular articles for every year during our brief 6-year existence, starting with 2009 and continuing with 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013: one for every year of the most artificial and fabricated "bull market" in history.''

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-31/2014-greatest-hits-presenting-m...

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 00:05 | 6984530 FixItAgainTony
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. -- TD

Happy New Year keepers of the faith!

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 00:13 | 6984537 TeamDepends
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Yeah, that was definitely one of our better ones.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:15 | 6984158 TheMadHatter
Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:23 | 6984174 fowlerja
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Most popular story for 2016...why..what else...ZH is nominated for a pulizter prize for news and wins....:)

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:23 | 6984175 Ralph Spoilsport
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Keep kicking ass ZeroHedge. The shining light of the Internets. A final scepter, a lasting crown.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:28 | 6984185 Angus McHugepenis
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I thought the article was Greatest Tits. Fucking click bait.

Happy New Year you ZH mofo's

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:38 | 6984203 Yen Cross
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 Angus, you're the best of the best.

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:31 | 6984251 Angus McHugepenis
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Yen you fucker. I'm counting down to my next beer and whatever other debauchery I can think of.

It's really just another "lifestyle" choice for me... even though I'm not a Yale grad or "special snowflake" that needs a safe space.

Happy New Year and I'll keep you updated on the crazy shit we are doing this year. You wouldn't believe what we did last year!

Edit: I junked myself in reply to the shadow junker lurking here. So far I've got 2 junks (mine included) on this post.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:35 | 6984344 Yen Cross
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  I have a few stories myself Angus.

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:44 | 6984349 Angus McHugepenis
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I know you do, you fucker, and that's why I've always known how important you are around these intertubes.

Edit: Does Martha Stewart smoke weed? Just asking cuz I'm about to light the oven and get baked.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:07 | 6984424 Yen Cross
Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:31 | 6984477 TeamDepends
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2016- Chinese Year Of The Fire Monkey!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:36 | 6984483 Angus McHugepenis
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Holy fucking shit! I just recognized myself in that mirror!

Nice one Yen.

I gotta go but best to you and anytime you want to lace up skates and fuck around on ice let me know. Or go gold mining...

Happy New Year to ya Yen!

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 04:00 | 6984739 Yen Cross
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 Okay, for the record I can Ice Skate. I'm a really good snow " slalom skier".

 Happy New Year Bitchez. 12:59 and some change on the left coast ! GMT-8

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:02 | 6984272 o r c k
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I'd vote for the Olympic swim teams and the Baby Ruth bars.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:30 | 6984188 e_goldstein
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Happy new year, bitchez.

Thanks Tyler(s) and the staff for keeping the boat afloat.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:32 | 6984194 reload
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Happy new year all. Thanks to Tylers and posters alike for another year of learning, insight, dot joining, despair, anger, fear and laughter. Good luck for 2016 friends.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:33 | 6984196 Spiritof42
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Impressive! I've come to see Zero Hedge as a front row seat to the greatest political debacle in all human history. 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:39 | 6984208 GRDguy
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ZH and ZHers: Whether agreeing or not with what's published, thanks for being there!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:40 | 6984212 Atomizer
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My new year resolution is to download BlackBerry OS update that has been needling for the last two weeks. I promise to fucking do it. Why should I be reminded every day when my Passport phone works flawlessly. I don't intend to migrate to Android app sideload. What don't you fucking understand about BlackBerry Security? Honestly, just kill this update. My phone works fine.  

UPGRADE YOUR BLACKBERRY® 10 OS TO THE LATEST 10.3.2 SOFTWARE TODAY. Download now to enable new advanced features making your BlackBerry even more secure and productive including: - BlackBerry® Blend 1.2 with a fresh new look and new features like spell check, instant replies from Blend notifications and visual enhancements to file downloading - Anti-theft protection feature incorporated into BlackBerry® Protect - Camera updates deliver enhanced low light performance, face detection and focus - BlackBerry Calendar updates make finding free dates and minimizing disruptions easier with growing numbers and Meeting Mode customizations - And more… Updating your BlackBerry® 10 OS and enabling new levels of security productivity is free and simple to do. Visit www.blackberry.com/blackberry10OS for more information; otherwise just select the update option below. As always, before beginning the update we recommend that you make a current backup of your BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:55 | 6984252 Ralph Spoilsport
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I updated my Z10 a month ago and it improved the battery life. I can't use a lot of the other stuff since it's not Linux friendly.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 04:08 | 6984442 Yen Cross
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 Zorin 10 isn't LTS-E yet.

 If you're speaking of linux. We haven't heard from Ying Yang, and he's got some health issues.

 H/T to Ying Yang... Be well, and my best to your family.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:22 | 6984460 Atomizer
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Tell you a true story. So, I am posting the Chen BlackBerry post. My wife creates a lizard falsehood on the grill, hurry up you need to kill it. I ignore and keep typing.

She comes back and tells me only one out of four grilling heaters are ignited. Quick, hurry up.

Walk over, just turn the handles. Close hood. 10 seconds later, a plate of filet mignon appears. She barks, medium rare and don't over cook. See how are wives can trick us. I love her. She knows how to get me off the interweb. 

Happy New Years Zerohedge family. 

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:41 | 6984214 Anasteus
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Thank you a lot for your outstanding effort and many excellent articles, Tylers! ZeroHedge has become one of the most relevant and influential source of information outside the crazy world. Something that we need more than salt.

Wish you all the best and a happier new year to everyone. Wish it were the first year of so long overdue transition towards a better society.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:42 | 6984218 N57Mike
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Thanks Zero Hedge, for keeping the torch lit.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:53 | 6984249 bruno_the
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And thanks ABP for blocking these popups. Life is good.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:26 | 6984323 Implicit simplicit
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true dat

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:56 | 6984388 MsCreant
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Yeah, so we can burn it All. Fucking. Down.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:15 | 6984445 espirit
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. Soon.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:43 | 6984219 MayIMommaDogFac...
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I really appreciate the commentary with each of the article links.  

It expresses motivation for a lot of ZH content better than anything I've seen before.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:50 | 6984235 indaknow
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Thanks for a little sanity in an insane world.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:01 | 6984268 FIAT CON
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If we could only get the readership up to 100M we would see a lot of holes in the sand and lots of pale faces, maybe then we would be getting somewhere.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:01 | 6984269 cavsgt
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Thank you ZH for another great year of news and Happy New Year to all the ZHer's and keep the coments coming.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:03 | 6984274 surf0766
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Fuck the progressives !

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:31 | 6984337 uhland62
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But please wear a condom or your valuable part may catch something. 

Happy New Year to you, too, and may you not lose your passion in 2016. 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:11 | 6984422 Radical Marijuana
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Screw the debasement of language achieved by the biggest bullies' bullshit dominating the most publicly promoted uses of language, such that the word "progressive" ends up meaning the opposite in the real world to what its dictionary definition states!

Welcome to the Wonderland Matrix, Bizarro Mirror World, where everything appears to be absurdly backwards, such that the so-called political "progressives" have covertly advanced the international banksters' agenda, which is actually the most regressive trend!

Since civilization is "controlled" through POLITICAL FUNDING ENFORCING FRAUDS, professional hypocrites operate all of the sociopolitical systems, so that the "progressives" actually cause the opposite to happen!

Although I do NOT like the way that English has developed, as the biggest bullies' bullshit language, such that the word "fuck" has also reversed its meaning too, I sympathize with the sentiment!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:59 | 6984521 DirkDiggler11
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Radical Weed:
I honestly didn't dig your writing style at first, but I respect the fact that you lay out your ideas and present them in a detailed and logical way. I'm also beginning to better understand your definition of "murder" and how it relates to the insane world we seem to live in these days.
Cheers,
DD

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 15:31 | 6985874 Radical Marijuana
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Thanks, DirkDiggler11!

Another review of 2015:

http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/blog/2016/01/01/descent-into-darkness-collapse-2015-in-words-pictures

Descent into Darkness: Collapse 2015

LOL, for those with a sufficiently macabre sense of humour:

"Those who do learn from history are doomed to watch others repeat it."

And, my next favourite statement at the ~5:10 mark in that Rant:

"There was never any good money in here to begin with …"

It became obvious to me, half a Century ago, when I first thought about the mathematics of exponential growth, that it would overshoot badly ... Since then, I have mostly wasted my time attempting to influence the political processes which were driving that exponential acceleration towards "adapting" to limits through some DOOM.

Probably anyone that bothers to listen to the Rant above already knows that the political economy is based upon public governments enforcing frauds by private banks. Every economic decision was being made INSIDE fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting systems! There was NEVER any good money. Rather, there has only been the vicious spirals of POLITICAL FUNDING ENFORCING FRAUDS, getting worse, faster, at an exponential rate … Since everyone had personally successful careers proportional to them living INSIDE those systems, all sociopolitical systems are dominated by the best available professional hypocrites, who DELIBERATELY DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY, but rather, engage in maintaining attitudes of willful blindness towards the whole range of social, biological and physical facts that they do not like.

The best available professional hypocrites continue to enjoy the most personal success, by telling other people the lies that they want to hear. Metaphorically speaking, the saying "those who live by the sword will die by the sword" has also undergone exponential growth towards overshooting. Therefore, the most probable DOOMS follow from the degree to which people deliberately ignored that Earth is their Lifeboat. Since every social pyramid system everywhere in the world is based upon being able to back up lies with violence, despite that never stopping those lies from still being false, what one can most reasonably expect is that, one after another, the Ships of State will sink, then their Lifeboats will sink, then their Liferafts will sink, then their Lifepreserves will sink.

Lifeboat Ethics are a microcosm of Military Ethics. At the present time, since all sociopolitical systems have ended up being operated by the best available professional hypocrites, since the actually existing systems became based upon integrated, sophisticated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence (primarily bankster controlled governments), all such systems do their best to continue to deliberate ignore Lifeboat Ethics, since doing that is a kind of consistent contradiction which was driven by Military Ethics based on the most successful murder systems operating through the maximum possible deceits and treacheries, which then became the historical basis for financial successfulness based upon enforcing frauds.

As we go through the series of the sinking of Ships of States, and then the sinkings of the remaining Lifeboats, the realities of Lifeboat Ethics will be driven to develop. Ultimately, the most intense paradoxes have developed due to the history of successful warfare based on backing up deceits with destruction becoming financial success based on enforcing frauds, which was creating "money" out of nothing as debts, in order to "pay" for strip-mining the planet's natural resources, and turning those into garbage and pollution, as fast as possible … The professional hypocrites operating those systems continued to get away with presenting those as being good, productive, things to do, because those systems were set up to recklessly, ruthlessly and relentlessly privatize the profits, while socializing the losses, since everything was done through fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting systems.

Sociopolitical systems based upon POLITICAL FUNDING ENFORCING FRAUDS deliberately ignore the principle of the conservation of energy, and deliberately misunderstand the concept of entropy in the most absurdly backward ways possible. Each short to medium term social success based on being able to back up lies with violence results in worse longer term consequences, since those lies never stop being false, no matter how much violence is used to back them up. Therefore, what the various probable DOOMS will do is drive the development of Lifeboat Ethics, as special cases of Military Ethics. The longer that the world continues being controlled by the best available professional hypocrites, that are publicly successful in proportion to the degree to which they deliberately ignore that, then the worse the eventual longer term consequences will become. The essential problems are that natural selection pressures were internalized as human intelligence, which was applied to the most important selection pressures, which were other groups of human beings, that then developed through the history of warfare and finance, to become the currently established economy based on ENFORCING FRAUDS, which has become increasingly psychotic at an exponential rate!

Spaceship Earth, and every component within That, is a Lifeboat, and therefore, Lifeboat Ethics, as a special case of Military Ethics, applies everywhere. After there is life, then the death control systems direct the evolution of that life. Of course, that was always the case for human beings and civilization. However, the intense paradoxes, manifesting as sets of consistent contradictions, have been driven by the history of successful warfare based upon deceits, and then the history of successful finance based on frauds, resulting in all sociopolitical systems being dominated by the best professional hypocrites, WHO WILL SURELY CONTINUE TO PUBLICLY IGNORE ALL OF THE KINDS OF FACTS OUTLINED IN THE RANT ABOVE!

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