Three Years Of Zero Hedge
Today is the three year anniversary of Zero Hedge.
Starting with humble beginnings and even humbler aspirations, and proceeding through over half a billion page views filled with breaking news, analyses, cynical ruminations, snarky sarcasm, grotesque hyperbole (two words best used to explain our current socio-economic catastrophe), and broadly - entertainment - this website has been lucky enough to grow into the world biggest fully independent financial blog (whatever that means), garnering between 1 and 2 million page views daily (usually VIX-dependent), and serving around 4 million unique readers per month from all around the world.
While we enjoy cutting through the endless media bullshit and propaganda, exposing stupidity, learning from our mistakes, often with a much-needed dose of self-preserving humor that is so critical in this day and age, and hoping to satisfy a persistently unmet niche in the media space, the truth is that no matter the content, the site would not have succeeded or achieved anything without you, our reader. And while most come here to quietly read, learn, snicker, or just to pass the time between trade confirms and fake European bailout headlines, others prefer to engage in direct commentary, often times boisterous, frequently venting, and always uncensored and uncut. Because more than anything, this is a place for anyone and everyone who has an open mind, and more importantly, a sense of humor.
It is to you, our readers, that we owe our sincerest gratitude for providing not only one of the most educated and intelligent, not to mention outspoken, readership bases one could hope for, but for constantly engaging us, and helping us grow and develop in ways we had never thought possible.
It is this what "social media" is all about.
As for everything else, it will happen... in due course. The transition from point A to point B will not be fast and it will not be easy, but it will take place. Because systems out of equilibrium always revert in due course.
And we expect to be there covering, analyzing, and certainly mocking it, every step of the way.
Yours Sincerely,
the ZH crew
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Cheers! Fuck the MSM.
Three fucking years? My blog has been around 4 years and the readership is a fucking whooping 7 readers and 4 of them are my family, I am fucking jealous now.
For 2011 the Federal Reserve increased the M-1 money supply 18.5% from $1.8288 trillion to $2.1678 trillion.
In 2011 the M-2 supply increased 9.8% from $8.8037 trillion to $9.6648 trillion.
The Money Zero Maturity (MZM) increased 8.9% from $9.8562 trillion to $10.7373 trillion.
The monetary base, the money the Federal Reserve prints, increased 28.3% in 2011.
http://usa-wethepeople.com/2012/01/review-of-monetary-data-for-2011/
I ALMOST forgot something very important...
http://europeanfinancialsystemdeathclock.com/
snacky: hi
The sense of humor is indeed important. The best comedy comes from the darkest reality. Perhaps that's why Zerohedge, one of the best sites at poking fun at the absolute clusterfuck that is our financial system, is so successful.
"It is this what "social media" is all about."
Uh oh. When is the IPO ?
Hey Moe!
Scram, you knucklehead!
God bless you Tyler!
Happy birthday ZH. My favorite Internet destination, bar none!
"All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk!" -Ayn Rand"
ZH shows us the road. All we need do is read, think and act. Thanks ZH Crew for all you do.3 years? Seems like a lifetime. Well done...
The first post:
http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/01/wall-streets-diarrhea-shifting-to-park.html
Nice, congrats Tylers. Been a great run, looking forward to much more.
Happy Birthday, Bitchez!
and many more.......
Thank you Zerohedge.
I read you everyday, all day, and Im a better, richer (gold bitchez) man for it.
God Bless you Tyler.
How much better off would ZH be if many of the top commentators had not left for a multitude of reasons? For those not around in the first few months, it was truly special, where it felt like the only place on the internet where discussing certain topics was met with more than cricket chirping and blank stares . Now, with the amount of trolls etc., its' just 'good'.
Cheeky Bastard (not the mock troll)
Chumbawumba (not the mock troll)
etc etc
And when people like akak and Cog Dis who saw the matrix for what it truly is, posted more often.
I miss the old ZH, it became a victim of its' own success.
Thank you for the accolades, Canaduh, although I think I hardly deserve any special mention, especially compared to many of the old posters to whom you allude. When I first started lurking here just over two years ago, I frequently felt, and was, so out of my depth that I only did just that --- lurk --- rather than post any comments, and even when I started chiming in it was with no great frequency at first. ZeroHedge did feel truly "special" back then, but perhaps that was at least partly due to my not taking it for granted, as I do now.
dear zero hedge,
happy birthday, would not be sleeping at night if not for you guys and gals clearing the fog...
i would like to continue getting my beauty sleep...
I {we} need a plan b...kennedy, lincoln, and et als. have met with a little bad luck trying to do whats right..
you and your flock have to be on the " are you sure you want to permanently delete this group?".......
so, i would think they are going to make it necessary for us to need plan b?...so,we should probably get started on it..
once again, thank you and keep it up
happy birthday....
I'll second your comment. I drifted into ZeroHedge in early March of 2009 and lurked for the first few months, in awe of what I found both with Tyler and the comment section. It wasn't until nearly May of 2009 that I began to post as an Anon and a further 2 or 3 months before I grabbed an avatar and fully joined in on the conversation.
A special shout-out to Tyler (and Marla) who plucked me from the comment section and offered me a clean and uncensored white board in which to post my articles, which frequently have nothing to do with the financial world, but have everything to do with we humans who are the social/financial world.
CogDis, your articles may have only tangentially dealt with financial matters, but I always have felt that they enliven and significantly add to the overall intellectual tenor of this site. Your comments have always been very worthy of consideration as well. I am glad that you are still a part of this crazy, hardnosed, chaotic, wonderful community.
Happy_Birthday_Zero_Hedge I_love_you_man! Can_we_speak_frankly? Yes_we_can! Thank_you.
Agghhh!
SO THINNNNNNNNN!
This how you get comment on 1st page?
Well done Tyler and ZH Crew
Three years from the ninth day of the ninth year?
Happy Three to Thee...
perhaps, it is nearly time to kick it up a notch or quit
hup zh
Happy Birthday, indeed.
...Sorry, I didn't get you a gift this year. My U.S. dollar lost purchasing power.
Ditto, Zero. Or is it Zero, ditto? regardless - Happy birthday ya big lugs and lugettes!
Thanks for waking us up, Tyler, you rock!
Excuse me while I whip this out.
What long strange trip it's been from Seeking Alpha. Happy Bday Tylers and all you bitchez.
Grateful Dead: Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been. Those are the words to describe our world. How can so few see the unwinding of Western Civilization and be so blase about it?
You want to take a mulligan on that one? How can you fail to be blase about something you don't see? I also found Tyler on SA, but mine was a very short, one-click, one-way trip. Happy Birthday guys, and many more.
I remember ZH from it's blogspot days. First time I came across it it was all mostly over my head. 3 years later I've been thoroughly educated. well done
lifetime? that was the fastest last few years ever. wake up and go to bed with ZH. When the nukes are in flight, we'll find it first here.
By every test, the very best.
In a no hopey changey world, a rock to crash poor notions on.
Awesome ZH and thanks for allowing my by-lining.
And as much as to the crew, the gang down below and up above....
will we see another three?
Cheers!
ori
We saw the whole thing coming, sold our house (late) at the '06 RE high, and spent '07, '08 and '09 blogging calculated risk believing it was the bleeding edge of the emerging 90 year credit-collapse. So, so wrong. Several months of comparing ZH reality to calculated risk's continuing bad data (lagging 3 month average case-shiller home prices sanitized of distressed sales, for one example) and continuous cool-aid inspired monthly recovery and soft-landing scenario suppositions, soon proven wrong and then conveniently forgotten, led us to the wisdom of ZH, Mish, Williams, Reggie, Jesse and others. Like I said: if there's anyone I failed to insult at CR, I apologize.
Thanks. You score TD.
i saw the whole thing coming too coz i read mike whitneys stuff on Information Clearing House portending the mortgage backed securities and credit default swap calamities - but his work went off the boil aout the time i cottonned onto ZH.
Member since ZH was 10 months old - and at that stage it had already twice embarrassed Congress to amend some hopelessly inadequate regulations
Tyler was the shrewdest motherfucker out there and remains as sharp as ever
Happy B'Day ZH et al! An excellent summation. Erudite. Brevity is the heart of wit.
Many more please.
I was going to say my knowledge has increased ten-fold since I stumbled onto this site, but when I thought about it, I realized that my knowledge actually increased infinity-fold because when I started, I actually knew nothing. Thanks Tylers.
infinity times zero is still zero.
No it isn't. Not always anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminate_form
Group activities are wonderful..especially group learning. Tyler, thank you for leading the class lessons.
TheSilverJournal.com
HAPPY B DAY ZH !
Tyler .. thanks for all the hard work and fact finding . The best site going.
I'm fuckin rollin @ Moe an Curly. Too funny!
Give 'em hell, Tyler.
UP TO THE NEXT 3 YEARS WITHOUT SLEEP TYLER! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE ENTIRE CREW! :)
I was thinking along the same lines..."where can I buy some shares?" in this growth/tech/social media/networking/blog phenomenon....
I seriously had no idea ZH was this young. Congrats! This is already a huge and growing success!
Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Americans, good citizens of the world. Three years ago today a new threat to the security of our nation arose. My administration moved immediately to counter this threat through the use of advanced social media tools and well-paid puveyors of sanctioned information.
Despite our best efforts, however, the threat persists and becomes stronger. Let me be clear; I will not allow this threat to continue. I will not allow the good people of this nation to be led astray. Not as long as I am president.
Some say that that a free flow of information is vital to a healthy democracy. But in this era of instant information exchange there must be limits. For behind this threat are the very terrorists we have been fighting against for so long. And now these terrorist organizations have infiltrated the very heart of America, and are in our living rooms and our bedrooms even as I speak. Rest assured that I will do everything in my power as President of this great nation to repel this threat to our ways, and that in the coming months we shall take decisive action against this new menace to our financial stability and Constitutional law. We will protect democracy around the world. We will win the future.
Thank you, good night, and God bless America.
The terrorists are in the White House, the Administration, the Congress, and the regulatory agencies.
Have you not been paying attention? AFTER the collapse. That way true domination will be possible.
Dateline: day after tomorrow "This just in from ZH- yes, we saw this coming. I think we might have been the only one. Probably a good idea to turn off MSNBC and follow ZH TV."
Edit: I am free to head your advertising efforts in the Twin Cities.
We could use some farking snow.
And Tyler's, I'll turn over my portfolio to you guys.
There's not a machine on this planet I can't program and have my way with. Even remote. Give me physical access, and well....you programmers out there know :)
Since reading ZH, I'm in a very, VERY much better financial position now. Solid. Solvent even. And sane. (Alliteration is my favorate literary device by design and decision, distinction, diguise, disgust at times! )
Thank you.
If we cared only about fake money, we wouldn't be here.
An IPO would make me sad.
Other than that, my personal message to the ZH crew (on top of "Thanks") is...
keep your Humility.
Then... Onward and Upward rings true.
"When is the IPO?"
That aroused laughter of many decibels!
Happy Birthday, ZH. I'm surprised no astrologists have appeared praising the good (or dwelling on the bad) things of being a Capricorn.
Here's to many more years!
well, since the thread is "old" now, I'll bite!
while I don't have the details I'd need to draw up a chart, I can tell you that ZH's "date" has Pluto at 1dg Capricorn - and the chart for the Federal Reserve has the Sun at that same degree - the archetypes here would be: the Sun is the Face of the entity to the world, how it shows itself to the world; Pluto is the endgame, it destroys what has been sown, leaves the field barren awaiting new growth - it's "death" but also "rebirth" as each is part of the endless cycle. . .
that ZH has set its sights on "exposing" the Fed, exposing in a way that vampires exposed to the light. . . die. . . well, it's rather poetic really. . .
ZH relationship to amrka's chart - oppositions, Capricorn / Cancer - has the planet Mars, god of war, masculine sign - opposite amrka's Cancer Sun - so again, there will be no truce, take no prisoners, this is "personal" - ha!
(as you were folks, heh)
What is the first rule of Fight Club!?
"What is the first rule of Jewish Fight Club? When someone says owww, you stop!" - Family Guy.
"garnering between 1 and 2 million page views daily"
Yeah but 200K - 400K a day are clearly divided between GeneMarchBanks, Mr Lennon Hendrix, trav7777 and about 22 other people and myself...but it really depends on whether or not the munchies have set in...then we are easily distracted by shiny objects.
Sincere congratulations and more importantly thankyou for the eyes you open up and morons you give all of us ample fodder to comment freely about.
My deepest thankyou.
Bob
I'm easily good for 15 visits a day. Probably 30 on a day when the shit is really hitting the fan good.
"but it really depends on whether or not the munchies have set in...then we are easily distracted by shiny objects."
Consistently impressed by both the humour and the intelligence of posters here. I used to read the comments section of MSN sites like Fox News and the NYT, reading ZH means I am more informed, with the added bonus of not wanting to kill myself.
Although we respect your right to assist in depopulation.
I spend waaay too much time on this site! Will TPTB just hurry up and hit the reset button so I can go onto doing other things?
Kudos, Tyler!
My only disappointment with ZH, is not finding you earlier!
This is the staight dope, internet crack - cant get enough!
How old is ZH in CNBS years?
Internet crack, wasn't that your first avatar?
As long as I live, I will never forget Pladizow's first avatar on Zerohedge.
Bring back the tits please!!!! Or at least show us the link!
They are not talking about that crack. A more basic crack I think than even the bosom.
Why are planet love match ads popping up?
Hope?
And as you correctly noted at the time there is nothing particularly wrong with the female --er -- nether parts.
The Planet Love ads are cracking me up. What do they think, ZH is a hangout for lonely dweebs?
I mean, I'm in a coffee shop writing code tonight so why would I ... oh wait ... never mind.
Very memorable. I would ask you to post it for old times sake, but it's not zerohedge.xxx
i don't know man. without the towering intellect of velobabe, something has been missing....
i also miss crabcakes anger, that was good stuff.
I miss many of the old timers.
+1
I kinda miss Hammy/Harvey Wanger and Johnny what's his name - they took a lot shit and they mostly deserved it - but they were a hoot.
Big Congrats Tyler - what a great show!
Semper Peratus, The Navigator
Ah, yes, HarryWanger, aka James Kostorhyz, that dishonest, disingenuous bastard who played on the righteous anger of so many here to gather anti-Establishment opinions and responses as part of his cynical, hateful "study of the psychology of utopian permabears".
And then, of course, there was the SHRIEKINGLY gold-hating troll JohnnyBravo (aka MasterBater in his earlier incarnation), who swarmed every thread that even touched on gold like flies on shit. Another truly malevolent evildoer, for sure.
Good times.
What about the self righteous Texas Gunslinger, he had some great go arounds.
It's the way of the blogging world...
From the primordial soup, a homogeneous universe usually emerges... entropy often follows. I carry a deep vein of skepticism about the human race in me but even so, 3 years of cliff-hanging can leave you drained.
But where else to go?
Damn few places, that's where.
Happy B-day ZH.
Thanks for not banning me ;)
..and Denninger? Thanks for banning me...thrice (lol)
Same here Mscreant. Demand those answers and keep your ever ready blade sharp.
Oh ya, At least no one has trade marked ZHarmony .. yet
People with no sense of humor are really creepy.
What the fuck is that supposed to mean? /sarc off
But seriously, happy birthday ZH. I'm thoroughly addicted. Fight club, bitchez.
Also, let's do whatever we can to stop SOPA and take that crap viral. I prefer my ZH legally.
http://americancensorship.org/
Amen. I've had my episodes of paranoia that the black helicopters will be hovering when I log on.
When some of the testier commentors disappear then reappear acting like RoboTrader you'll know it's time to head for the hills. Hope and pray they don't take you first. (sarcasm I think)
Happy birthday, ZH. Only about two more years until your doors are kicked in by Seal Team Six and you're dragged to Guantanamo for indefinite detention as substantial supporter of terrorism under the auspice of NDAA. But let the good times roll until then!
Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative that came out of DHS headquarters in November, Washington has the written permission to retain data on users of social media and online networking platforms.
Specifically, the DHS announced the NCO and its Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS) can collect personal information from news anchors, journalists, reporters or anyone who may use “traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.”
That's cool, I hope I can shoot the shit with Tyler someday.
Hopefully we'll be in the same FEMA camp.
I hope I can shoot the shit with Tyler someday, too, while liberating a FEMA camp.
I just had a crazy good idea. ZeroHedgeicon 2012.
My booth will have cigars, leather couches, and eye candy wIth names like "Bambi and Ginger" and Ron Paul will be there too just hangin out...
Oh wait...I Went to the international cigar exposition in 1998 in Vegas and there were 2 chicks in blue head to toe body suits...I'll hire them to taunt MDB at his booth.
I'm so there. I'll have to tell my wife it's a hunting trip with the guys. So sad when you need a kitchen pass to go play revolution with your friends...
I just had a crazy good idea. ZeroHedgeicon 2012.
My booth will have cigars, leather couches, and eye candy wIth names like "Bambi and Ginger" and Ron Paul will be there too just hangin out...
Oh wait...I Went to the international cigar exposition in 1998 in Vegas and there were 2 chicks in blue head to toe body suits...I'll hire them to taunt MDB at his booth.
You are dozy enough.. Try breathing some fresh air for once.. The only thing you should fear is this war that seems to be coming
As my friends in Baja California would sing ( to the tune of happy b-day to you) " Sapo verde eres tu... Sapo verde eres tu..."
Conrad,
What is the significance of Apr 15 2012?
Last tax day in history?