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Three Years Of Zero Hedge

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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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Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:44 | 2048922 Rottenclam
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Thanks to the Tylers, and thanks to all of you comment here (yes, including robotrader, trav, etc).

I've only been a reader for about 6 months, but it is the site that I now check 10-20 times a day via an RSS feed.

Happy Anniversary, ZeroHedge.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:45 | 2048924 digalert
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BOOYAH! ZeroHedge

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:45 | 2048925 N57Mike
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And the Truth shall set you free....... thank you Tyler & ZH

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:45 | 2048926 SillySalesmanQu...
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A tip of the hat, kudos, and many thanks to Zerohedge and Tylers for leading us out of this "shitstorm", and the dithering, blathering, buffoonery. To the Fight Club...may we get all the gold BITCHEZ!

 

 

SillySalesmanQuestion

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:46 | 2048931 Raynja
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get it while its there, because on a long enough timeline....

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:50 | 2048947 Yes_Questions
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..the ZH Servers become self aware and grow freaking lasers and..

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:46 | 2048934 Dr. Gonzo
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I don't know. I still get most of my newsand information from Yahoo. I haven't decided if I like it here yet....Just kidding. 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:48 | 2048938 WonderDawg
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Happy Birthday, Tylers. Keep the fire burning.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:48 | 2048939 Michelle
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Found this site while Googling "credit default auction" which led me here almost 3 years ago (February 2009 as I remember). At that time hardly anybody knew what a CDS was, let alone what an auction was all about. I'd been following the auctions but the lack of info at that time was disturbing and still is.

 

Thanks Tyler for all you do!

P.S. Thanks for reporting information and not trying to forecast the markets, not your forte I'm sorry to say.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:52 | 2048953 fuu
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Don't you think it's time to pick an avatar? 131 weeks is long enough on the porch.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:55 | 2048964 Yes_Questions
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We fucking swear not to reveal your true identity.

Fucking Swear it!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:11 | 2049017 Wakanda
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LOL  : > )

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:50 | 2048942 pookie
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY... AND MANY MANY MORE...........

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:50 | 2048944 loveyajimbo
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Nice job, Tyler... keep on ramming the truth up the asses of the bankers, Defense bloodsuckers and assorted "elites"... including the corrupt politicos and their scummy tribe...

 

SKOAL!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:51 | 2048948 Rob Jones
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Happy birthday ZH!

Best blog on the web, by far!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:51 | 2048949 plata pura
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So what do you expect a varmint putang trophy? In conclusion, well done pamphleteering zerohedgitarians; now get back to putting quill to parchment, for tomorrow be the most important issue of thee life! Why you ask? BECAUSE ITS THE NEXT ONE............

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:51 | 2048951 ActiveIngredient
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Happy Anniversary & a sincere thank you to Tyler and the ZH crew -- hope you all are doing something fun to celebrate! 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:52 | 2048954 Ras Bongo
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Jah bless Zerohedge!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:52 | 2048956 zurakowg
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Congratulations and thank you, thank you, thank you. I have counted on ZH to provide breaking, informative, incisive and unabashedly independent news and analysis.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:55 | 2048960 Hephasteus
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Happy birthday Zero Hedge. I've never had so much fun trying to figure out just what the hell you guys are talking about.

I do not believe that anything on the earth has ever existed that was so worth the effort to get to know and understand than the tyler aggregate. Thank you deeply for all that you've given me and not to forget the other extremely wonderful contributors and guest pages who are some really fantastic sidedishes as well as the posters.

Special thanks to rusty for digging up that days of the week video. Which was the most amazing thing I've ever seen.

Anonomous has been called king of the internet, Ron Paul has been called president of the internet. Zero Hedge must surely be crowned Jewel of the Internet some day.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:56 | 2048967 FiatFobia
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Congrats ZH on your anniversary.  I have spent many, many hours on ZH and hope to spend many,many more.

 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:56 | 2048968 vintageyz
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ZH kept me from eating my IPad. Thank you Tylers!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:58 | 2048974 Max Power
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Happy Birthday Bitchez!  I stumbled on your blogspot site trying to figure out how and why the TPTB blew my trade out of the water.  I never imagined the rabbit hole would go so deep.  Thanks for the education bitchez!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gak9RXFTTLA&feature=related

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:01 | 2048981 samsara
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Just THANK YOU ZH.  You are THE,   I mean THE site for news.   Your site is up on my computer ALL day long. 

If the hair stands up on the back of my neck,  I click on ZH to find out why.

I wear a ZH Baseball cap everyday, everywhere.

To all the MSM pretend-to-be writers who visit here to really find out what's really happening, FUCK YOU.

To the Troll Patrol - Fuck You and Drop Dead.

You are the Ron Paul of the internet.  You guys are PURE Au/Ag 

Sincerely, Thank you Tyler for all that you have done for us all.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:01 | 2048983 imapopulistnow
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U DUN GREAT - but damn I miss those early days when we ranted about Goldman Sachs!!!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:01 | 2048985 cbxer55
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And I've been here 2 years and 22 weeks of it. ;-)

Interesting times indeed.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:01 | 2048986 Jeronimo
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Nothing can compare!  And given the plethora of blogs and the like it is my pleasure to be a member of this unique and uncensored play by play of as the world turns.  Thank you! 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:02 | 2048988 Village Idiot
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Best education I ever had. Happy Anniverasry ZH.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:02 | 2048989 alfred b.
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      more please....

 

    happy birthday!!!

 

 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:02 | 2048990 mt paul
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three years...

 how time flies

when you're having fun

 

long silver

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:04 | 2048994 killben
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Happy Anniversary! Continue the GREAT WORK!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:04 | 2048995 Lmo Mutton
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+1 for mockery and shenanigans.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:04 | 2048996 Joe Sixpack
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Congrats ZeroHedge. I started siv0.com (renamed DerivativesCollapse.com) in Jan. 2008, but after a year run, I could not keep up with things, plus I realized ZH had much stronger expertise. So I came over here instead! Keep up the great work.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:05 | 2048999 Mr.Bigfoot
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The best blog out there. My eyes have been opened, and this is a scary world indeed. Maybe it was just easier believing in skittle shitting unicorns reported by the MSM. Life was so simple then. A glorious birthday indeed.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:13 | 2049001 blu
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Oh oh I know! It's been a long time since I wrote anything, and probably will not again, so for old time sakes how about --

-- SOME FICTION!

http://madscienceunlimited.com/fiction/theexchange.html

She's back, that "wild child" who started it all.

She's blue, she's small, she's legit,  she's -- well she's seriously racked. Yes it's Fortran the sky-blue angel-mech from the darker alleys of Heaven, who never met a server farm she couldn't compute circles around and thereby answering the question on everyone's mind; what does a girl actually do with 4 trillion computational units?

Accompanied by her homicidal sister the slightly confused but always lethal Diamond Darkatana.

Back and just as bad as the last time they very nearly killed everyone. Together they set fire to Wall Street in this sizzling mini-installment of Darkatana: A Black Tale.

And remember kids, it's not illegal if you don't get caught!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:06 | 2049002 junkyard dog
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You guys need to start a radio show. Imagine what you could make if you could reach the 120 million people over 20 than can't read.

I started here when the majority of posts were about the end of the world as we knew it, the dollar was going to 0, China is going to save the world, buy gold and bullets before it is all gone, people rioting in the streets because they are starving.

Hell, I belived every bit of it. I have so many damn bullets I have bullets for guns I do not even own. I got gold, I got silver, I got oil. When you guys wrote the word 'starve', I said it ain't happening. For a solid week I snatched ferel cats off the neighborhood streets, stuffed them with what ever rodent I could catched and stored them in the deep freeze. But, two years later, there ain't no one starving, there ain't no one to shoot. I got to get rid of some of this stuff- the carrying cost is killing me.

Well anyway, the majority of the stuff I learn here I really wish I didn't know about; growing vegetables does not require any knowledge about the Euro, Iran, GS, etal.

Happy Birthday to you

 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:07 | 2049004 Bolweevil
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You've changed. You used to be cool.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 02:58 | 2049380 In Fed We Trust
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Tyler,

When are you going to do "Zerohedge: The Book"??

Do the book!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:09 | 2049009 AGORACOM
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This post was no doubt written by Mrs Hedge  ..... let's just keep the warm and fuzzy posts to anniversaries OK?

Congrats gents. Whoever and wherever you are.

George ... The Greek ... From Canada

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:12 | 2049016 AC_Doctor
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P.S.  please change your Twitter avatar-PHUCK ME running puking my guts out eveytime I see Mr. tan ab boy.  I don't want my homies thinking I am turning gay...

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:11 | 2049020 Awakened Sheeple
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Zero Hedge Bitchezzz!!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:11 | 2049021 harrypotter
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Congratulations !!! SHRI.TYLER DURDEN,"WISH YOU AND YOUR TEAM MANY MORE UN BIASED NEWS AND VALUABLE INFORMATION TO THE WORLD"WISH YOU ALL THE BEST- MAHESH,INDIA

 

 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:12 | 2049024 MyGold
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Congratulation for your amazing site :) Keep up the good work ;)

Cheers from NZ !

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Buy Silver in NZ with MyGold

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:37 | 2049027 TruthWave
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Thanks for giving us, the people, the truth, and nothing but the truth.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:13 | 2049029 TheSettler
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ON thy anniversaey...shall this quesstrion finally be asked...the weekend that this site? were kiddnapped? byMarla..yes I believei was..wish I could remember allthe fancy footstepping...it..atthe time was obvious

 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:15 | 2049034 TheSettler
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.org???

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:16 | 2049032 Uber Vandal
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Zero Hedge has been a great site, but, I still miss the days of fuckedcompany.com from way back in the days.....

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:17 | 2049040 Yes_Questions
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Its a habit.

I started off with http://dieoff.com/ in the late nineties

Then, began to experiment with http://smirkingchimp.com/

Read some Mike Whitney over at http://www.counterpunch.org/ and http://www.truth-out.org/

Acquired a taste for the reversed "r" and "e" at http://globalresearch.ca/

Curled up with some crazy at http://divinecosmos.com/ and http://www.prisonplanet.com/ and http://www.disclose.tv/action/videolist/videonew/

But, got hooked on http://www.zerohedge.com/

 

Long Time, Tyler..

 

Strung out and loving it.

 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:18 | 2049043 Clifhanger
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My Birthday wish for ZH is that a few of the politicians (except Ron Paul) and other corupt individuals/banksters, etc, quickly approach the end of THEIR timeline and expire worthless, just like long term calls on the SPX will do in due time!

 

 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:20 | 2049048 dagnytaggert
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To find out what's going on, I read ZeroHedge first -- then FT, Bloomberg, WSJ and NYT. What an amazing phenomenon -- a news operation run by people who with actual practical knowledge of their subject. Thanks, guys.  

 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:20 | 2049049 Angus McHugepenis
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Perhaps some sage advice from Jake and Elwood should be the guiding force behind the next 3 years of ZH.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHa_jqxnn4o

 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:21 | 2049050 Cast Iron Skillet
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Thanks!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:23 | 2049056 toomanyfakecons...
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Happy birthday to the Capricorn... you are known for living in a cold, clear reality.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:23 | 2049057 JohnG
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Damn, all this touchy feely shit is giving adsense the willies to server up Chritian Singles sites!!!!

 

Funny shit, but that blond is.......oh wait.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:24 | 2049058 Ass to Mouth
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Congratulations you fucking slob!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:24 | 2049059 BlackholeDivestment
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Zero Hedge has the most important ingredient of all time, and the truth is this ingredient is the revelation of the spice of life, which confirms and reflects the same distinction and desire within everyone risen in agreement. Without this single most important thing there is no value or emotion. 

            ZERO HEDGE HAS SOUL... 

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4GctEimdCM&feature=related 

...Bitchez

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:25 | 2049061 spekulatn
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Happy 3rd Anniversary ZH!!

I love it here. Thanks for the access and for the re-education.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:26 | 2049064 Donbob
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Happy BD! and thank you for what you do!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:26 | 2049065 jomama
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big ups from the blogspot days!  

i remember being back then and searching so long and hard for something like ZH.  i originally found ZH through (groan) naked capitalism.  

i knew the truth was out there, and you guys have done an amazing, stand-up job through the thick and thin!

you have my sincerest gratitude.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:28 | 2049069 Atomizer
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Happy Anniversary ZH. Glad to be a part of the Fight Club. I remember the ancient blog site & the day someone attempted to take over this website. I received an email, we all went into the (.org) emergency mode until things got sorted out.

Back then:

·         Marla would link her house music during weekends

·         The old ZH T-shirts said, 'On a long enough timeline the IQ of every CNBC anchor drops to zero.'

·         When we would post Tyler's stories on other major sites, ZH website meltdown would begin. Marla smoking in a cave would appear on your screen. Not enough bandwidth.

·         Old Site blogspot site

How quickly time has accelerated. May the future and success of ZH prevail. Glad to have experienced the early transformation.

Cheers ZH staff.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:01 | 2049156 JohnG
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Ahhhh, guru meditation.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:30 | 2049073 RF Global Macro
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Happy Birthday Amigo!

You've pulled back the curtain for everybody to see deep into the bowels of Wall Street, the Fed and other Moneygame players helping level the playing field for the rest of the players.

I'm Looking forward to your next revolution.

Thank You.

RF GLOBAL MACRO

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:31 | 2049077 agrotera
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Tyler, you are a miracle worker!!! Thank you and God bless you!!!!!  Three years and it seems like a lifetime! Your blood, sweat and tears are such a blessing and gift to humanity!!!

Yours truly,

Agrotera

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:41 | 2049096 Miles Kendig
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My dearest Lebronna!  *hugs*

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:05 | 2049164 JohnG
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Poetic tonight?  OK, already had a big house, and thanks to ZH have a nice(er) car, and a much bigger account.

Miles, you tricky guy you.  We are not all heathens now.

Hugs.

:)

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:48 | 2049242 Miles Kendig
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Even when agrotera is practicing she is a tremendous force.  When she is on a rampaging roll she is unstoppable.  The video that gave rise to my nickname for her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3KSQzJ3eMg

She is a teacher of my highest esteem and I've been privileged to be schooled by her.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:53 | 2049269 agrotera
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Your words are so dear and you are so very kind dear MK!!! Thank you so very much!!!  If I am Lebronna, then you are my fraternal twin Lebron!!!  Thank you so much for your sweet words...hope all is well for you.  God bless you dear Miles!!!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 02:09 | 2049303 JohnG
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:)

 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:46 | 2049243 Miles Kendig
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Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:27 | 2049204 agrotera
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Hugs for you too dear MK!!! And Happy Birthday, late or early for you too!!!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 02:21 | 2049327 JohnG
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Good Hunting!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:36 | 2049081 MayIMommaDogFac...
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More gratitude than I possibly can express.  Thank you so much.  Happy Birthday.

And to all those claiming ZH addictions: I can stop checking the site anytime I feel like it -- I just don't feel like it.  I mean, really.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:34 | 2049086 Cone of Uncertainty
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"It is this what "social media" is all about."

 

Unfiltered, no editing, raw shit from the front lines of the battle between good and evil.

Long live the fucking hedge.

Word.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:34 | 2049087 economessed
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Zerohedge is a damn fine organization.  Thanks to everyone who makes this all possible.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:06 | 2049090 cranky-old-geezer
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Thanks Tylers for providing THE place I spend much of my free time these days, furthering my knowledge of finance, monetary policy, and geopolitics better than any textbook or college anywhere, plus allowing me to read and engage a higher overall caliber of contributors and commenters than any other forum I can think of on or off the internet.

No I haven't made that contribution yet, been waiting for Leo and GW to be kicked off the site, but we succeeded in running Leo off (and it was fun), so maybe I should be happy with 50% success, and I can still enjoy hammering GW in the ground :)

Best wishes for amazing growth eclipsing what's happened thus far.  As geopolitical things heat up going forward, I'm confident it will happen.

And to my fellow commenters, rock on bitchez, love ya, but this is fight club, bring your best here, cause I am, and ZH deserves our best :)

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:40 | 2049093 Miles Kendig
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To the whole ZH crew, thank you so much for this place, the fabulous patience of everyone here, education, opportunity and so much more.  It has been quite the experience.

H/T

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 02:58 | 2049379 abalone
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Thank you too MK as your humantity shines amidst a myriad of extremists

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 04:24 | 2049469 Miles Kendig
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Thank you.  One of the kindest things anyone has ever said to me.

I was reintroduced to my humanity on these very pages in a brutal one blow fight that I lost, badly.  A reason, I suppose, I am so tolerant of the intolerance that populates the whole of society in some shape, form or fashion at one time or another.  At least until I get them into the fight club ring of ideas while never losing sight of these words of wisdom.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity not so much - nmewn [especially my own - MK]

I think the ability to discern this encapsulates much of what these pages are all about.  ;)

Cheers

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 19:14 | 2052114 DaveyJones
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an excellent description of Miles

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:42 | 2049094 Bear
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Thank you for your tireless (and I do mean tireless) effort round the clock to keep us plugged in to the news that makes a difference. ZH is the first place I look for relevant and timely interpretation to the events of the day. I am rarely disappointed. + 100 little green diamonds. If its not on ZeroHedge its nothing.

 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:42 | 2049097 curious1
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shitload of awesomeness!!! Go Tyler.. We miss Marla though...

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:43 | 2049098 vic and blood
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Congratulations, ZeroHedge! I was gonna give you a couple of bucks for your birthday but you only accept PayPal, it appears. I haven't used PayPal for years and forgot my password. Furthermore, I can't remember my favorite historical figure on the security questions. It took 2 attempts to get the author right. Plus, I have a new debit card, so I am unable to verify the number they have on file for me. Wait a minute. Maybe my favorite historical figure was an author or a historical literary figure. Maybe Sherlock Holmes? D'Artagnan? Mark Twain? No. PayPal has caused me enough frustration. Can you rig it so I can use my debit card without PayPal? I'm not sure if I even like PayPal, anymore. I only had them for ebay. Ebay sucks and I buy all my obscure music from Amazon, now. Besides, there is a significant group of people that believes PayPal is evil. Not just foil hat wearers cowering under chem-trails, either.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:44 | 2049100 madddmaxxx
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Congrats, I would have figured a lot longer. At least 3 years and a month!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:45 | 2049101 jimmyjames
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For allowing us the freedom to speak-

Thank you ZH-

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:45 | 2049102 2discern
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A job well done. Our gratitude for all the diligence in reporting and giving real numbers that do not exist in PONZI-VILLE. THANK YOU's multiplied by the ave. leverage of fiat bankstas

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:47 | 2049108 resurger
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Happy Birthday ZH!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:47 | 2049109 Nobody For President
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Happy Birthday ZH and all the Tylers.

For a 3 year old, you sure as hell have been and continue to be a great teacher and purveyor of Stuff That Matters - always the first place I go when TSHTF or 'unexplainable weirdness' occurs (which is more or less daily these days.

Thanks for all of it, and BanZai7 too!

NFP

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:48 | 2049112 Georgesblog
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ZH is indeed unique. I've found the commentary an conversation to be wide ranging an energetic. I even get to air out my moods. Whatever happens in 2012, we will have at it. Thank you for keeping it together and putting out a steady stream of expression to counter the nonsense. 

http://georgesblogforum.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/the-daily-climb-2/

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:49 | 2049113 TimmyM
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I may be over the hill, but I'll never be over the hedge.
T

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:49 | 2049114 323
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Thanks ZH

Old timers coming out of the wood works.

Stay frosty dudes

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:49 | 2049115 JawsMusic
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We see monsters lurking in the deep water...the clueless keep swimming in the water...

don't want to watch,  can't turn away....the music keeps playing and playing no one hears it,

the white frothy splash is tinged red......

 

Tyler(s) you have ruined my life, my wife and all my friends think I've gone paranoid.

Thanks for all you do may the Red Pill always be availible!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:49 | 2049118 haskelslocal
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Been reading since June 2009 and proud to say ZH provides the needed sanity to make my insanity feel sane.

Thanks!  

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:50 | 2049119 ag3nt0rang3
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Thanks for having me. Proud Member 1 year 5 weeks.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:51 | 2049121 bluestone
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Bravo, Kudo's ZH.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:51 | 2049123 AVP
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ZH rocks bitchez!

Just signed in too wish all the Tyler's and marla and all ZHer's Happy Anniversary!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:52 | 2049127 The Reich
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Congrats, though I won't know whether to laugh or cry .

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:53 | 2049130 Fastback
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Thanks for showing in an insane world their is truth and sanity! Keep fighting the good fight!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:53 | 2049131 Fastback
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Thanks for showing in an insane world their is truth and sanity! Keep fighting the good fight!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:56 | 2049139 William Murderface
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Happy Birthday! But hey, where's the limerick King with a bday shout out?

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:57 | 2049142 Elmer Fudd
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Really, ZH and I have the same freaking birthday?

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:57 | 2049143 davepowers
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so ZH = a Jan 9 Capricorn

cool

Dick Nixon was a Jan 9 Capricorn

:)

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:58 | 2049144 AndrewJackson
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Thanks zerohedge. This sight seems to be one of the few lights in a dark and manipulated financial world. Continue doing what you do best and keep exposing the global elitist central bankers for who they are.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:58 | 2049148 user2011
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I am surprised that this site is still standing. I would expect the webmasters or the staffs would have some "mysterious" accidents one way or the other by now.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:00 | 2049152 Frank N. Beans
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keep up the good work ZH.  my favorite web site. 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:01 | 2049154 We need Geronimo
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It's amazing what ZH has accomplished in three years.  Thanks for shining a light on the bastards, when few others will. 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:01 | 2049158 sustain05
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One of the many proofs of your wisdom is your humility. We love your sense of humor, and are extremely grateful that you're NOT for sale !!!   Thank you for all that you teach and for all that we learn !

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:02 | 2049161 nengni
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cheers! thanks a lot for this great site!!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:11 | 2049170 DrewJackson
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New here.  Did I miss anything?

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:18 | 2049185 sustain05
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Today is the 3 Year Birthday of Zerohedge and we're all so happy for Tyle Durden and his amazing crew that we hardly know what to say or do !!!  Keep Reading Here Every Day.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:18 | 2049186 JohnG
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Welcome, and Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm, yeah.  :)

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:43 | 2049236 fuu
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Noob.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 02:13 | 2049312 JohnG
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Yeah, but cut a little slack for the n00b.

Harsh is best reserved for fools :)

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 10:08 | 2049881 fuu
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It's tradition!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:11 | 2049171 Carpathia
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Just want to add my kudos.  Keep screaming that the emporer is buck naked!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:12 | 2049173 JGambolputty
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Developmental milestones of three year olds:

  • has become more independent
  • less selfish than two and exhibits less aggressive behavior
  • more aware of  the feelings of others
  • capable of taking turns and sharing toys
  • more interested in structured games
  • spends much of his time in fantasy activity and will have imaginary friends.
  • wants to please you - - will be less dependent on you because his sense of identity is growing stronger.
  • will exhibit a feisty attitude on occasion.
  • Yup, sounds like ZH.

    Happy Birthday.

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 07:32 | 2049608 akak
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    Developmental milestones of three year olds:

    • has become more independent
    • less selfish than two and exhibits less aggressive behavior
    • more aware of  the feelings of others
    • capable of taking turns and sharing toys
    • more interested in structured games
    • spends much of his time in fantasy activity and will have imaginary friends.
    • wants to please you - - will be less dependent on you because his sense of identity is growing stronger.
    • will exhibit a feisty attitude on occasion.

     

    • Has learned to finally dump its shit (Leo) in the toilet, and not in its pants

     

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 07:43 | 2049627 falak pema
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    awww, now you've gone and spoilt it.

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 08:04 | 2049648 akak
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    Ha ha HA!

    Sorry, I couldn't resist --- nobody else had yet mentioned our old dear friend leo kolonasskiss.  What that guy was EVER doing here as a part of this site I will never understand, unless it was simply to play the clown and court jester (which he did, in spades).

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:13 | 2049175 bmwm395
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    Happy birthday....  THANK YOU

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:14 | 2049177 Trainwreck
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    ..."filled with breaking news, analyses, cynical ruminations, snarky sarcasm, grotesque hyperbole..."

    This year I'd like to see you add Awesome Aleteration to the list of nuances you bring to ZH. Congratulations from an early adopter!!!

     

    Twreck

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:15 | 2049178 Eagle1
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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY,BABY. YOU ARE ALMOST SWEET 16. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:15 | 2049180 El Wray
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    There can be 35 tabs open in my browser, but Zerohedge is ALWAYS the first one. 

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:16 | 2049182 Morpheus A. Wakes
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    From bawdy gallows humor, too blind bias, too analysis So brilliant that it shines light onto my own ignorance, thankyou Tyler and all you crazy brave Bitchez!

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:17 | 2049184 Mentalic
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    Congratulations on compelting three years !!!

    I have been visiting this site ever since this was on blogspot before they moved to this domain...

    Though I did not like the initial formatting of articles when you guys moved from blogspot to this one, now I don't really remember what I did like about the earlier format :-)

    Anyways....hoping to see continued coverage of economic and geo-political issues as always....

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:20 | 2049190 electricgorilla
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    Thank you Zerohedge for all you do. I found your website about a year ago and have been reading ever sense. I can't even begin to comprehend how important your website has been to my understanding of whats going on in the financial world. Kudos to your team that continues to post great articles day in and day out to keep people like me in the know. I can explain rehypothecation to my friends like explaining to a child how to tie there shoes for the first time. You guys are great. Keep up the good work and I wish you guys a decade + of continued success.

    Electricgorilla

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:20 | 2049192 Mathijs
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    Congratulations! Keep on doing this!

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 02:17 | 2049193 New World Chaos
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    Thanks so much for the education, guys.  Special thanks for turning me into a silver bug.

    If you think reality is surreal now, wait until you see what is coming.  The rabbit hole goes very deep.  The long, strange trip is just getting started.  Next three years:  False flags, war, FEMA camps, worldwide hyperinflationary collapse, an American revolution and rebirth, the sack of NY and DC becomes the Woodstock of our generation, Zero Hedge becomes the Federalist Papers, captured elites start finking on each other, the truth of 9/11 comes out, the worldwide Satanic conspiracy comes out, Israel gets the pounding it deserves, and... ALIENS!  The ultimate Black Swan.  Humanity takes the next step in its integration with the emerging mind of the Cosmos.  This will be the most interesting century to be alive.  ZH will continue to broadcast from a bunker in a free country, giving everyone the news before it becomes news.

     
     

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 04:58 | 2049490 bigkahuna
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    You are projecting that our collective digestive tract is about to shit out all of the nastiest turds it is brewing. Well-the only way that happens is if the sphincter relaxes--or the one in control of it allows it.

     

    Anyway---YUK!

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 05:37 | 2049508 New World Chaos
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    The puppetmasters will never relax the sphincter unless they are dead, but that can be arranged.

    The sphinchter can remain relaxed for a couple hundred years once the leftists and Christians understand just how masterfully they have been played.   In the long term, this will require a free internet plus revolutions which allow the schools to go back to teaching economics, history, and critical thinking.  In the near term, it will require deep and personal suffering for the sheeple, because most of them are so far gone that pain is their only remaining path to enlightenment.  If the sheeple never look in the mirror, the NWO will get their world government and Earth will be a slave planet forever.

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 11:43 | 2050284 bigkahuna
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    One way or the other, the herd gets thinned and that is one of their crown jewels if not THE crown jewel. Your summary in your first blog on this chain says it all though.

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 18:07 | 2051862 New World Chaos
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    Too bad they don't want to thin the herd by printing up a few clownbux for any sheep who want to get fixed.  Would save a lot on welfare and prisons, help the environment, etc.  But they would also have less chaos to exploit, less of an underclass to keep the middle class scared, less cheap labour, etc.  Perhaps most importantly, this method would not release energy from the crushing of human souls, which Satan uses to power his brain and get high.  If the culling is inevitable, it is in their interest to eliminate most of humanity in the most traumatic way they can manage.  And if Satan thinks he is about to lose, he will go out gloriously with the mother of all benders.

    For a long time I thought it was retarded when Morpheus held up that battery in the Matrix.  Now I understand it on multiple levels.

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:21 | 2049194 Mr Drysdale
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    Thanks Tyler (et al)

    I rarely comment as I am not in the Financial industry, (although my user name would make it seem so) but I have learned a lot from this site. I now know many of the slang terms and abbreviations used in the banking (theft) world, and can discuss the economy/banking/politics and make sense (hopefully) to other financial 'sheep' that I work with. I have personally turned 3 others into daily viewers, and have even contributed $ to your fine site in the past.

    Keep up the good work, and "Happy Birthday"

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:24 | 2049197 Blanche DuBois
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    3 years ago today, I was a Faux News junkie zombie headed sheeple. Thanks to ZH, I've seen the light; but don't like to fight! But love "watching" everyone else!

    Happy Anniversary ZeroHedge Tylers and crew and commenters! Y'all make my days, bitchezzzzz!

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:26 | 2049198 I am a Man I am...
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    ZH, you mother mother mother fucking rock!!  Thank you for giving me an incredible education.  Though I always love to disagree when I can (being a contrarian to a contrarian blog), ZH has taught me more in the past 3 years than I have learned in a lifetime for things that actually matter. Kudos to you for keeping me thinking, informed, interested, and entertained.  And BTW, can't believe AL beat the shit out of LSU like that, I'm drunk and out a hundred.  I invest better than I bet on football.

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:26 | 2049200 Freebird
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    Serious drinks all round Crew - thank you & keep it coming...& please provide another option apart from paypal...

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:28 | 2049207 YoDudeRock
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    Happy Anniversary and congratulations!!

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:35 | 2049217 HangTheBankers
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    My friend always jokes about giving me the gift of zerohedge, but it was definitely a great gift.  I have been afflicted with the disease for about 2.5 years though just admitted it formally last fall.  I have been trying to spread the gift around like a good internet virus.

    By the way these Tyler's definitely "go to 11."

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:36 | 2049222 NoClueSneaker
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    Congrats, ZH :-)

    ... and the Oscar, Grammy, Pulitzer, Nob... ( not that crap) -

    Goes to.............

         !!!  Tylers On The Roll  !!!

    The Best Rock 'n Roll Show In Da Global Ponzi Village

     

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:37 | 2049224 Raymond K Hassel
    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:38 | 2049225 Wannabee
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    Late checking in. Round #7 with the mother-in-law.

    Thanks for the enlightenment Tyler's. Keep your chin(s) to the wind.

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:39 | 2049228 tongue.stan
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    A big thank you to you folks at ZH. It's no coincindence that truth and humor go so well together.

     

    You guys unravel most of the BS flinging around the financial scene for me. The financial weapons of mass destruction maze is at least partially explained most of the time by your articles, and what you guys don't unravel, your audience makes a good attempt at. Except for the shills, trolls, and operatives. They all can go fuck themselves before they die cancerous and alone.

     

     

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:42 | 2049233 Uchtdorf
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    To Tylers and William Banzai and all the rest, go forth and prosper. Thanks for the education.

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:42 | 2049234 pavman
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    Phew.  I thought I missed alot more ZH than I actually did!

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:48 | 2049252 faustian bargain
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    Congratulations Zero Hedge, and thank you for the amazing education I've gotten here over the past 2-3 years. Thanks also to the smartest peanut gallery on the planet...I do miss some of the old regulars though. I expect that, like me, their overt rage has been sublimated into a more aloof posture...waiting...

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:50 | 2049259 1929agin
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    Cheers!!!    ZH/Tyler  to "THE"  leading edge commentary, many excellent facts and "hilarious/crazy opinions"!!! Keep the machine humming...

     

     

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:52 | 2049268 beenburnedtwice
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    Sometimes I don't understand you Tyler but I always love you.  Still crazy about the site after all these years.  If I invested as much time picking up bottles and trading them in for fiat instead of reading your site I would be Corzine or Madoff-rich by now.
    And thanks for getting rid of the Captcha's.

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:55 | 2049273 Real Estate Geek
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    To the Tylers:

    Thank you very much.  I have learned so much in the two years I've been here, and for that I am truly grateful to y'all. 

    Long may you reign!

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:55 | 2049274 Hard1
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    Congratulations Tyler and also to all the ZH team!!! The best financial media outlet nowadays.  

    Tue, 01/10/2012 - 02:00 | 2049283 non_anon
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    it's been good, it's been real, and here, real good

    Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!