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2015 Greatest Hits: Presenting The Most Popular Posts Of The Past Year
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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Regressive = Repressive.
I'm always fascinated by the extent to which words have been twisted into their opposite meaning these days. The pinnacle being, of course, TRUTHER!
Happy New Year RM, wherever you are.
Happy New Year Tylers and Zerohedgers.
I salute the Regulars for your comments and humour.
We should NOT forget the Trolls that, keep us on our toes, and provoke us to direct a steady stream of HEALTHY ABUSE.
Cheers everyone.
It will be ahappier year when I stop seeing that idiotic post about " my mother works only 5 hours month and makes $7344.22c turning her computer on and off while stuck at home."
That's a misprint.
It's "while sucking at home."
I know, but I will tell you the ZH peanut gallery has fired back with many world class insults / responses to the sluts from home that I would almost hate to see them go.
I have no sardonic comments tonight. I only wish the best for all and a happy New Year for 2016.
To ZH, the Tylers, Banzai and all of the fabulous posters here in the comment section, I cannot begin to thank you enough for the ongoing education I get here, morning, noon and night...and making me LMAO, every day. Cheers!
My big prediction for 2016 based on inside information is that Obama will resign to pursue a professional golfing career.
caddy maybe
Bla1ze, tell John S. Chen to shut the fuck up in third party applications that endanger security. Not liking the PREV relationships with Android. We did uploads without a firm ware update. I'll keep my BlackBerry Passport out of this fuck up OS revision.
I smell a rat grooming a security company to sell. It won't happen. We will overtake this POS. Yes, we are talking about you Chen. You will regret your actions. We have the ability to raise capital. You will get fired for even thinking about selling BlackBerry. Hope you understand.
"On a long enough timeline, survival rate for everyone drops to ZERO HEDGE!" And here we are, another year in the bag. I, for one, am extremely happy to put a big fat red X in 2015. Not that I'm looking forward to 2016 as the year we all get our act together, but it will sure be entertaining.
Thanks to all here at ZH. You folks are terrific.
Happy New Year to all at ZH, so glad to have some sanity in this crazy world. Thank you & keep up the great work.
2015 - Year of the thick black rim nerd glasses wearers reaching a crescendo.
everyday`dreaming[?] i have an unconscious reflex driving me to Zerohedge... whence, onboard the 'Tyler`porn' Express', and unto the futures' past and present there is an 'intellectual orgy' happening in my frontal lobe i cannot explain-- i awaken covered in cum...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPqZs7Vl_xg
happy New Years Tyler
TMI earle, TMI.
Happy New Year to you.
It sure is taking a long time, eh?
The term is collapse fatigue.
Here is how it works:
You and I keep waiting for this shit show to collapse. It is like a "watched pot" that never boils, or maybe the boy who cried "wolf" and no one believes us because we keep thinking it will happen. The second we give up and decide to forget it, the whole system blows up. You and I and all the other ZHers are actually keeping the system going by resisting and looking for failure.
What if we just stopped?
Happy New Year!
Have you ever felt that you were ahead of the game by just a few years?
Watched the movie "The Big Short" yesterday. Encouraged that the movie got made and distributed - those guys were ahead of the game by a few years, and were right. More Boating Accidents in 2016 !
"We have not yet begun to fight!"
Thanks tylers or whoever you are!
May the new year bring you the best stories on the planet, as usual!!
Keep up the great work!
The Old Man
Happy New Year Hedges, may 2016 be interesting times..
Despite earning the same salary I enjoyed 30 years ago before even having a Master's degree in this mahvelous economy, reading your posts every day makes me howl with uncontrollable laughter as happy tears pour down my face I almost can't breath. Keep the humor coming and wishes to you for the best to come in 2016.
After lots of browsing,
I ended up agreeing.
I have been unable to find a better Web site, that covers the topics I find most intrinsically interesting and important, (although I WISH I could!) But nevertheless, when I read it, I still thought WOW:
McMurphy: I must be crazy to be in a loony bin like this.
Indeed, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest provided extremely appropriate metaphors regarding the situation that a political economy dominated by public governments enforcing frauds by private banks has become runaway INSANITIES, (which we are all stuck inside!)
Meanwhile, I found it hopeful that the most read article on Zero Hedge was one that foreshadowed "a historic moment in the tension between the old and new economies!"
WOW:
Eugene Levy as Rockin' Mel Slurp circa 1975; June 2015 at Air Canada Center...
"WOW! WOW! Fantastic! That was a little bit of too much huh?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06JZFakM3uc
Cheers : )
HAPPY NEW YEAR - and please make you Web page run faster in 2016 !
You can afford to cut loose some of these Dweebs ... in your advertisers list ... the people with crummy servers and no bandwidth. Their adds are killing your Web page.
These are the same people that you complain about in your stories. Seriously, ditch some of these dudes!
Good luck!!!
A big thank you to all ZH people, great job! It is comforting that there are people who sincerely try to inform the rest of us with honesty and sincerety. happy new year and keep the good work going, we need you.
Slappy Poo Ears 0h'erz and Tylers...
be safe bitchez!
Great job ZH. Happy New Year.
2016 will be a doozy. Shitfeast election theatre, Obama squirming his last in an effort to fundamentally transform America with his muslim shitstain pals, Hillary opening her mouth, the RNC doing an end run around Trump to get Bush in the lightning round in November.
you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake you are the same decaying organic matter as everything else we are all a part of the same compost heap we are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world you are not your bank account, you are not the clothes you wear you are not the contents of your wallet you are not your bowel cancer you are not your grande latte you are not the car you drive you are not your fucking khakis you have to realise that someday you will die, until you know that you are uselessi say let me never be complete i say may i never be content i say deliver me from swedish furniture! i say deliver me from clever art i say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth i say you have to give up i say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may
Happy new year hedgers! You are my base. Lock, Load and keep stackin.
Salute! …. Long live ZeroHedge!
~ DC
bitchez
2015 like all the others ..ZH puts the spot light in the dark corners most media would like the humans to never see.
:this is the story I will remember..
rest in Peace Miriam Carey your murder on the streets of DC exposed the real face of .gov. (a young black women with her child & empty hands sorrounded by hulking police and SS..all firing weapons took your life.) I would post the video that was available but it has been washed from the internet.
https://www.facebook.com/miriam.carey.stamford
Don't see 'since Lehman' nowhere on here.
Happy New Year!
TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP The best option since Lehman....
Are you a Trumped up Charge?
Happy Fucking New Year --ZHers from Moscova!
From my favorite hotel room.
6:10 AM time for bread and coffee.
Now fuck off and make the world a better fucking place than last year.
Love,
Madame Insurrexion
Fuck!
No room service!
Fuckers must be drunk and passed out.
I had to get my leather panties on and walk down the stairs to the fucking cold street.
Fucking stillettos got stuck in the snow.
Walking down Teatralny Proezd, in a snow white fur coat.
Dead people, but no fucking Starbucks!
Beautiful sunrise...some start of 2016!
What are you doing the next four years after 2016?
The reason I ask is they seem to want a chick to be president and her best competitor is an entertainer. You have some moxy there...some backbone...I doubt her platform is as good as yours. Just asking...
edit: To all...
Can you imagine all the folks on the current world stage dealing with a righteous female dominatrix as president? Make her attractive, brilliant, with high ethical standards. Good business sense and no patience for bullshit!
Whip this shit into shape! LMAO!
Hillary does not "own" her shit because she is fake. She is a pathetic liar.
Not that I'm for it, but...
Majority rules, and if you can't get the minority vote by race you can get it by gender.
<$10,000 for Insurrexion's Presidential Campaign Fund
<If you have licked Hillary's...hooo,hooo.
I'm sitting in the tub soaking and I'm fucking "in", MsCreant..
Thank you for the endorsment...BTW
My vagina will qualify because it has NEVER been fucked by Bill Clinton and it is much younger and smells better than Hillary's...uh, uhm, uh...oh (I think I'll spare you all the visual/olfactory terror.)
So, lets get started with the donations.
I need a fucking $billion fast, a new wardrobe, lots of shoes, and some sparkly shit for the debates.
I already have an AK47, but can always use more ammo.
Oh, and I need a "First Dude" and U.S. citizenship fast.
Any takers ZH'ers?
I've got a great body and I fucking love long walks in the cemetery with my gaggle of dogs (male strippers).
God dammit, I can't fucking wait to put my diamond laden finger on the red button.
Peace and Love fuckers.
Happy New Year, Tylers...
and to all who look to ZH for some truth.
An empire folds slowly...
the principles don't die as much as they just fade away...
the greatest danger is to adapt, along the way.
Happy New Year to everybody. Thanks to all Bitchezz at ZH for making it a politically incorrect 'safespace' from which to fight 'micro-aggressions' and daily outrages of the PC world.
Thought for the Day: Bruce Jenner's cat is a dog.
I'm going to bed.
Fuck Obama.
Thanks Tylers. ZH is a treasure.
i.
Not a big New Year celebrator, but no doubt best info site on the internet. Some of the funniest stuff I have ever read was not only in the comments but the main articles (dead cat drawings on charts for example).
Happy New Year ZH, and ZHers. Keep the beacon burning in 2016.
And keep stacking those cheap PMs while the criminals are still allowed to suppress the price
I came to Zero Hedge over 6 years ago. What was crazy was when Tyler-- approved me for access of this web site. He commented then " I hope I'm not making a big mistake here". I was a prolific poster on yahoo
and other sites at the time.
I have posted as best I can without calling attention from Tyler or too many people here. Just wondering why I cleaned up my act. Maybe, this is the big leagues in that I have the highest respect for my fellow posters. Maybe I am in awe of the knowledge base and talent that shares their thoughts day in and day out. Maybe I'm amazed...
TYLER AND CREW, THANKS FOR HAVING ME. Let's party...
POCO
I spent New Years playing Poker with a 94 year old man, and he could really play. he has recently been awarded the French legion of honor, his advise, have a positive attitude!! an inspirational new years.
"...his advise, have a positive attitude!!"
That's a nice story (it is),
but having a positive attitude never changed an inappropriate dynamic of control.
A "positive attitude" never did anything towards righting a floundering ship.
That's right.
Jesus had a positive attitude until his wrists were nailed to the posts.
Good work Tyler Bitchez. ( :
Been waiting for this article for weeks, remembered how great the one from last year was, thanks Tylers!
To all my ZH fellow protagonists, Merry Friggin' New Year from the Prog Shit Hole they call California. Thanks to all of you for posting some really interesting links and videos, keep up the good work! 4 years and some odd weeks and this is a mulitiple times a day habit now! Morning, Noon and Night, I'm up for a Zero Hedge Fight! I miss some of our departed posters too. What happened to Truth in Sunshine? He always had some great commentary! If you're still around TIS, Happy New Year and here's a toast to the rest of you rowdies!
What a time to be alive.
It will try our souls but do not let it get to you.
We will prevail eventually.
Happy New Year ZH'rs
Year of the "Fire Monkey" coming up.
Tough shit fight club, continue on...
Since being purchased by ABC aka Disney, ZH has gone to hell. Most of the commenters worth reading have been banned, and a shitload of Yahoo types have overrun the comment section with their idiocy. It's hardly worth the time to read comments anymore.
Happy New Year to you too.
Show me proof Disney owns this website.
ABC media =/= American Broadcasting Corporation.
You and above dirtnigger poster have received the 2016 crotch pole award.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Ja1i1bju4
Happy New Year ZH.
Wrong
ABC Media has nothing to do with American Broadcasting Corporation. Also read in the post where it says that Zero Hedge has never received a dollar of outside funding.
Cheers and best wishes to all ZHers.
Good luck and much prosperity in 2016. (buy silver)
I'm going to bed.
Happy New Year! ZH and to the Tyler's!
Need to have you up to the Enterprise for a drink.
Damm Spock, get off Sulu...and beam me up!
In 2015 I was fortunate enough to welcome my new daughter into this world, my two boys are healthy and growing like weeds, and I was able to make my stacks and ammo dump larger while remaining employeed. All things considered, a good year.
For 2016, my goals are almost the same, although I pledge to drink more whiskey and shoot more often.
Have a great New Year Everyone !
Thank You Tylers! You are AWESOME! (Envision the Lego "Everything's Awesome" dude here). And Thank You also All Commenters.
I prowled the sight for a year before joining officially a few weeks ago and have learned more here about finance, humans, history, the world, etc. than I could have imagined. It's comforting to know there are still so many honest, idealistic, and honorable people in the world who so generously share their view and opinions and challenge me to broaden my perspective, keep hope alive in my heart and make me laugh until I cry.
Hopefully in 2016 I can figure out the ZH definition of "Bitchez!" The usage doesn't seem to match anything I see in the Urban Dictionaries. I'm also wondering why so many male sounding commenters use very female looking avatars. What's with that?
Best wishes for 2016! And don't forget to sing in the lifeboats.
And starting the new year more Gun Control and Illegals brought to us by Yobama, Hes wishing all of us a Crappy New Year. Have a Drink on me! Happy New Year just the same ZHers.
"But, as we have promised - and delivered - every year for the past seven, we will be there to document every aspect of it."
Hear! Hear! And here's to many happy returns!
Happy New Year to all ZH'ers....even you shitbag trolls. Here's hoping the next fuckstick in the offal orifice isn't as bad as the current one.
One day, hopefully soon, more and more of the shitizens will wake the fuck up and realize they do not need a "leader" or someone to Lord over them...until then......... ding, ding, ding, the fight club of ZH will continue parading the blood sport that is life.
"....all of life is just lessons."
WWW.USDEBTCLOCK.ORG
YOU ALL ARE....
$165 TRILLION IN DEBT BITCHEZ!
The debt just keeps growing to INFINITY! Put that into you progressive communist demTARD, libTARD, PEACE pipe and smoke it BHO utopian fools!
You are drunk or lost. ZH is not your enemy.
The debt will never be paid.
The corporation that is The United States of America has stolen it. We and our Fed will be the fall guys and gals, the bad bank, as punishment.
Happy New Year.
Just stating the facts to the clueless world, a.k.a. all PROGRESSIVE COMMNIST DEMOCRATS.
Every day 6 ft above ground is a good day! In my book.
Hang thieves and take back their ill gotten gains.
Thanks to Hedgeless Horseman, George Washington, Cognitive Disonance, William Bonzai, and all the other carefully selected contributors here. I'm also hoping for more Reggie and Limric Kings in 2016.
bring back madhedgefundtrader
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
I had no idea that "sand" was a slang term for "ass" ....
2016 could be DOW 35000!!!
They have to squeeze hyprinflation somehow.
Maybe we get an alternative ending but after today if the couldn't kick things up a lousy 10 points on the S&P...who knows.
Maybe gold is the problem...I'd love to hear CNBC explain a gold 'shortage' issue.
As much as I like the news I get here I still get my views at Fofoa however.
Maybe 2016 is when we find out which viewpoint was correct.
Happy New Year all you crack heads!!!
Almost 5 years later and still paranoid as fuck! thanks zh :)
a lot of great posters have come and gone (banned)...
keep up the work Tylers, 2016 is sure to be [the year] it all comes down /s
happy news years everyone
Best wishes to the Best and that includes the Arrow peeps as well.
Good luck to all cuz we're going to need it
What happened to headbanger miss seeing his avitar smashing its face on computer keyboard i liked his humour
happy new year everyone
Happy New Year to my soul brothers at ZeroHedge. Good News for people who like Bad News.
Just wanted to say "Thank You" to everyone at Zerohedge - staff and (most) commentators our here.
This is an important source of smart information as much as it is an important place to rant.
Sure, we all get hysterical and delusional in our perceptions of injustice and malaise.
And yes there are some larger agendas being played out here, but where are they not?
So many of us remember better times and had an expectation that character actually counted in dealing with our communities and families.
Those feelings seem so distant now - displaced by fear and a profound of sense of robbed dignity.
The Amerika of today... I just don't recognize it anymore.
The people running the planet these days? We don't even have words anymore.
My G_d watch over this Republic and all the great and small peoples of this world, who feel so isolated and angry, yet need to remember that we are all in this together and desperately need to help each other before things get too out of hand.
Thanks again and may everyone earn a better 2016.
Good luck to everyone.
I asked myself: where would I go online if I could only hit one site for news, for commentary that's as brilliant & damn witty sometimes as the site's contributors, and where I'd actually believe what I'm reading is reality based.
Been here ever since. Best site on the net.
Thanks to all & Happy New Year!
Damned if we do and damned if we don't.
Happy New Year everyone.
Happy new year, fellow asylum inmates.
Well I know I'm pretty new round here but, happy new years anyway hehe
Thanks to all here on Zerohedge. Keep the information flowing.
It's the best defense. Love, laugh and STACK.
Fill your safes and starve the beast in 2016.
Happy New Year!
Thanks to all who contribute to this site for helping me stay sane.
Congratulations Tyler and Zerohedge on your 7th anniversary. Whatever would we do without you.
How long before the World Fascist Government shuts you down?
*this post is being monitored for anti-government hate/crime think*
A very Happy New Year 2016 to the Tylers, Guest posters and all the commenters who hangout on Zerohedge to add their own perspectives.
Collectively, these people make ZH the success it continues to be.
There is obviously a huge demand for news and information that is not filtered, twisted or politically corrected by MSM or the political elites who are in each others pockets. All to the detriment of the very people they purport to represent.
HAPPY NEW YEAR YOU GLORIOUS FUCKS!
Thank You!
November 2015... the all time-heavyweight champion of gun background checks.
It's already that shitty in California.
As a longtime reader (though I only created an account to comment recently, I'm antisocial like that ;) I have a suggestion for the Tylers:
Please consider creating an ad-free version (a la YouTube Red) where in exchange for $x subscription cost, there's a (ideally mobile friendly and easy to read, take a look at the Pocket mobile app for guidance).
Reasons:
* Adblockers seem to interfere with other stuff on my phone and it's a PIA.
* Many people have budgets at their companies for professional education type stuff and this would enable them to support you in a way that's currently not possible (accounting departments, mine included, would put up a fuss over a donation, but a subscription would be no problem)
Thank you for all your efforts these past 7 years, I wish you continuing prosperity in the year to come.
Happy New Year 'Zero Hedgers' - It's becoming increasingly dangerous to be 'In the know' - I have learnt that it doesn't pay to 'alianate' you friends with your EXCESS knowledge - Best to just let them walk straight off the cliff - What are friends for huh ?
Happy New Year everybody, and don't forget to BTFD.
Yes,
Happy New Year Tyler & Company!!!
Glad to be Onboard.....this ship of fools ;) & :)
Sure beats being on the Titantic.
Yepp, if it wasn't for Ed Snowden spilling-the-beans in June 2013, I would've never 'stumbled over' ZH. Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw ZeroHedge really spoke 'reality'. Once Again, Thank You Tyler.
Med Vänliga Hälsningar/ Best Regards X- in Sweden
As a walking repository of decorum and sanity, I’m not sure why I’m so irresistibly drawn to this dysfunctional site. Perhaps it’s the eclectic cast of anti-social anarchist cross-dressing malcontents with Tourettes Syndrome, or not. Dunno, doesn’t matter. The most interesting collection of humanity on the planet seems to visit this watering hole and leave a bit of detritus for the rest of us to enjoy.
Thanks, congratulations and HAPPY NEW YEAR to all the Tylers at ZH! Keep up the great work!
Thank you Tyler!
Good work, Tylers!!!
BTW, I know you remove the Arrows when you archive your Articles; but do you keep tabs on which comments rcvd the most UP or DOWN Arrows? It'd be entertaining to see an Annual/Monthly Top 20 of the Ups Arrows and the Down Arrow Comments highlighted in their threads.
If you retain them in your records, that is...
Thanks!!
May all at Zerohedge have a happy new year, the banksters be damned.
Happy New Years Wacky Zany Zero heads
To the Tylers, thanks for all you do for us lot to follow the insane shit that unfolds on a daily, and increasingly insane basis.
You lot, thanks be for the mad bunch of inglorious bastards that post, and make this the place it is.
You know what? Whatever is going to happen, is going to happen and there aint a single fucking thing we can do about that, but you know what? I know for a Dog damn fact we will be alright, you know why? You bunch of mad fuckers will make it so.
The worlds already a better place, cos you fuckers are in it. The very, and I mean Very Best for the coming year to you all.
ITM
:-)
Chin up fuckers and have a tune:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=suubZERJafc
No matter who you are, turn the fucker up.
Thank You Tylers!
The # 1 story for the last year & decade should have been THE COLLAPSE OF BUILDING 7 WORLD TRADE CENTER for it holds the key to the most evil plot perpetrated on this country since Pearl Harbor!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqqelDq4P48
Happy New Year to all, only one point sums it all up and to be honest I don't know if I can stomach much more of their bullshit and diversions.
The most predominat point for me was Yellen hiking the rate and not about if / when she will drop it! The actions was made with all economic facts known even if they are not telling you.
Suggests this ...
All those in the 1% more deserving than the rest of us have secured themselves financially against the coming soon to be induced economic storm. This was the plan all along and in progress since 2009 and why all the obfusication hit unprecedented levels.
That action spoke volumes of where the 1% are, yet with serious implications globally for 2016 for an already slowing global economy.
very best wishes to all for a safe, healthy, and prosperous New Year,
or at least retention of sanity.
May all your fish be keepers and all your friends be true. Best wishes all.
A Slappy New Year to all ZH!
Thanks for the great reporting.
Happy New Year to all, even those of you who are always wrong, lolol
and where else could I type: LIBERALS ARE FUCKING PIECES OF SHIT
without getting banned!
To me, having ZH around itself is a Happy New year.
And thanks to all those wonderful comments that makes my day every day that I read ZH.
I still do not understand, how such an independant media is still alive and seemingly uncorrupted by MSM bullshit. But I am glad it exist.
Thanks ZH and those commenting readers. Wish you all Happy New Year
Happy New Year, Tyler(s) & Z/Hers.
My prediction for 2016: The end of Wall Street, the FED, and USD, mass genocide across the World, World War Three, nuclear fallout, and dirt naps all around for a majority of useless eaters.
And the Rolling Stones will retire after Charlie Watts kicks the bucket instead of his bass drum.
Wall St. definitely collapses, the FED is unanimously disbanded, the dollar enters the stage of overload 'high heat', people will die, world leaders are so indefensibly myopic that they cannot solve a board game, let alone a serious humanitarian nightmare (brought upon by themselves) -- let's give a shout out to 'dirt naps'.
Wall St. will forge forward, the FED will not be evicted, the dollar will continue to be the soundest currency in the entire world. There will be no genocide, WWIII will not materialize, nuclear fallout is contained within Japan, and dirt naps for useless eaters will continue.
Thanks to all the ZH guys. You have made all of us a little smarter, wiser and well... more pissed off! But really, thank you guys for all the truths, numbers, facts (well presented!) and satire. There are still a very few bastions of hope left on the internet and I think I would consider you guys one of them. You have proven beyond a doubt that the entire two party system is a joke, a facade, the same dragon with two heads. One day we can take real action, until then we'll keep reading.
(A wise man once said: I don't care who you vote for... As long as I can pick the candidates)
Cheers!
Hopefully a good year for all of us here at Zero Hedge and a very warm New Year wish to Tyler and his staff who work day in and day out to bring us the truth.
Am not sure where we would be without Zero Hedge, but I know it would not be pleasant.
The best to all here, no matter what part of the world you are from or what your convictions are.
Happy new year to everyone.
Best wishes for a great year of information, new wisdom and ideas.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?
Why you tracking me Bro...
I thought this story was for the best comments on stories
That merits it's own post for sure (Tylers).
If one is willing to wade into comment trash on ZH they can find a few wise men and nuggets of information.
Ramon Rojo: You are well informed, eh?
Joe: A man's life in these parts often depends on a mere scrap of information. Your brother's own words.
Tylers, please publish the number of reads or ranking *this post* gets.
Happy New Year ZeroHedgers!! Been coming here for 6 years and 1 day precisely. ZH is an integral part of my day. Articles you will not find elsewhere. Or if u do, they're at ZH first. Anything newsworthy comes up... ok, fine, sure. Now what does Fight Club say about it??
Seen many good commenters come and go. Yes many trolls too.(usually they're obvious) But good commenters still take the time to post! Coming here and reading the comments is like mining for gold. You gotta sift through a lot of dirt to find the nuggets - but they're still here!
Thanks to all for this oasis of sanity!
I found this one entertaining. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/high-school-student-hacked-cia-director-personal-email-145001614.html
Another year of great work from ZH. Thank you all and best wishes for 2016.
In seven short years, this site has become a daily must read and arguably more valuable than any other single financial media source. Well done.
Thanks for another year of great reporting, Tylers.
I just went back and read the only article I missed, which was #11, how the BIS secretly rules the world. Strangely enough, the only comments were three days later wondering how an article with over 700,000 hits had no comments on it.
Can you tell us why they are missing?
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/new-ban-bill-hits-congress-targets-semi-automatic-rifles-handguns-to-ensure-that-the-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms-is-not-unlimited_12272015 If I've been redundant, sorry.
there is a difference between stories and events, but clearly 15 is known by the riots in Ferguson, and the president stoking the racial animus. disadvantaged blacks should protest, he thinks. disadvantaged Americans shut up and eat your gruel. along those lines the accompanying big story is HUD using section 8 to place immigrants in private neighborhoods. that story is not finished if Muslim refugees enjoy the same policy.
the rise of Trump comes next, a feckless sitting president, a highly polarizing candidate from his own party, you would think the GOP would trot out their starting quarterback, instead a businessman steals the show (party). it speaks volumes to America that the two party system is dead. Jeb Bush says the Iraq war was wrong and Obama left too soon, is that a Woodie Allen joke? he promptly fell off the GOP radar along with Rand Paul. America is not in the mood for a Libertarian president, or another Bush, (having seen their SCOTUS, Eminent Domain, if they shove another Bush down our collective throat the national mood will only worsen.
in media forget the lies and liars, its the dystopian fantasy, Hunger Games, Walking Dead. we're all afraid of systemic collapse and that the 1% who run things will decide to hit the nuke button and send the 99% cockroaches back into their holes. we believe the world is run by a tiny cabal who lord it over us. there is nothing really to counter this opinion. we either ignore it or embrace it. we can't discount it.
in a world with bionic soldiers the old american militia with its rusting shotguns (right to bear worthless and ineffective weapons as well as noncounting votes, that idea is outgunned. like other military technologies down through the ages, they were always followed by a slaughter of the innocents, until we reached the point at which war was no longer fought between armies but against civilians (Hiroshima) by civilians (WTC) there is nothing in the history books to suggest we aren't being set up for another round. just hope and change and that didnt work out
WoW! Wish I was @ time square last night.
Article says a million thongs were there.
NEW YORK (AP) — A throng of 1 million revelers in Times Square rang in the New Year with raucous cheers and a blizzard of confetti, striking an optimistic, even defiant, tone amid jitters over extremist attacks and heavy security that included 6,000 police officers.
"You haven't lived until you've experienced Times Square on New Year's," said Eric Robertson, 25, of Philadelphia, who kissed his girlfriend as the crowd counted down the seconds to the New Year and the ball dropped at the stroke of midnight.
Got my dukes up, ready to take one in the grille if it will educate me.
Thanks to ZH for covering various aspects of news that the mainstream media is paid to ignore or under report, with logical analysis.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/UserInfo-Akhil_Khanna.html
If you are lucky enough to know you are a soul, on any timeline the prevail rate is infinite.
Have a Happy, Great New Year!
All great informative articles whether you agree or disagree. However, agreeing or disagreeing is not the point; it's being informed.
Thanks ZH!
ZeroHedge.
More fun than riding around the living room on my Roomba.
Happy New Year and may this years doom be doomier than last year.
Happy New Year, all. I'd try to be "wise" and suggest that we shouldn't take it all too seriously. However, I'm not that wise and the information ZH supplies, should be taken seriously.
Besides, where else can you go where gov't trolls are so easy to spot.
Happy New Year
Tylers and ZHer's
in a AI world
LifeCon 111
"Zero Hedge will be there each and every day helping readers expose, unravel and comprehend the fallacy, fiction, fraud and farce..." of unrelenting and interminably intrusive avertising that swamps ZH readers to where my browser finally stalls out...
Mary and Tyler - Happy New Year!
I was hoping - apparently in vain - for a post from The Limerick King. This past year seemed so rife with possibilties. Ah, time for another Mimosa. Then a long nap, until 2017, when things will either get better or a whole lot worse.
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Another year? And still not wise, wealthy or happy? Hell, I can still read ZH and snark in a comment now and then....
Thanks to the Tylers, the regulars, and the ones who wander in once and say something more useful than the many do in a dozen comments. Thanks to those on the various "insides" that post inside insight on events; and thanks to those who bring humor in to lighten the load of living in the USSA these days.
Reality will win, and "re-education" will not take place in camps. Here's to all the small engagements, underground movements and alternative arrangements that will cause a corrupt and decaying system to finally collapse in the Crunch heard throughout the world. May your personal hideaway / refuge / bunker be safe in 2016, cause it's about to get tested!
I hope each ZH'er can find their own solution to surviving the coming chaos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnlkKdDXk-I
Enjoy what you can!
As they say in texas
If you.can do it...it aint braggin...
You guys do it...and then some
ThNks
A Happy New Year to you all! Alhough most of us do not predict 2016 to be a happy year,I guess. Well, a LOT depends on us. Have been following the site since the very beginning and I have learned A LOT. Howevever, site is not the same no more, I have to admit this too. More controlled, more bullshit articles (which are ususally dismantled thanks to commentators... Please, who have been here longer, always remember francis_sawyer and some others.., censorship never improves the site, Anyway, thank you ZH for being here and, special thanks to you, commentators. YOU make this site. If it will be censored too much, hope we will find another place to meet! Strength and courage and love to all to survive, to resist...to create new!
A dollar short and a day late?
To one and all, remember we are ALL One! There is no seperation of this truth. All spirit walkers Know this truth and so therefore, they treat the world and every one as they would treat themselves. It's OK to love your self up!
Moar and moar every day we see the awakening happening all over the world. This woar on Evil is a world-wide campaign that every man jack and Sally is involved in. All are involved in some way, or another. The truth is, evil is evil and good is good. It does not matter what color a persons skin is, or what country they are from, what their politics are, or what their religion is, every soul on board is always known by their words, deeds, actions, and the fruits in life they bare. Only the ignorant and stupid ignore this in you face factual truth as they feverously disguise evil in all the many faces so many people see, and hear. There are only two faces of the coin. One is a good soul, the other is evil. It is the choice of each individual to be a good soul, or an evil one. As everybody knows, each carries with it the karmic pay off for each and every action, word, and deed at some point in time. There is absolutely no escape from this universal truth, and ALL is known.
Many great accolades and hurrah's go out to each and every soul aboard the good ship, ZH. May each and every one of you find the peace in that place where you are in your heart place. May ye all know contentment and happiness from your good works done well. May ALL the world's good people learn to be brave, and to all as the One we ALL are, stand up mightily to unite to finally rid this planet of the evil that has plagued it for many millennia.
Truth is a river that naturally flows into the heart from the fountain of universal knowledge. In your quiet time be guided well as you practice listening to your heart...and drinking heartedly of that knowledge...one day at a time.
Blessings on ya all for all the great works in words and more so, for all the awesome truth that feeds the hearts of those who seek the Light. All things are known. May you all be known to be the Greatest Souls on Earth.
Bless'ed Love and Grace to ALL.
One Love!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY
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Short - yes, late - not yet. Thank you for a good one, I agree wholeheartedly!
The World As We’ve Known It Might End in 2016… Good! Bring on the New Free World!
Keep stacking
Not stacking EVER
whats its gonna be Vote accordingly ;)
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