The largest search engine in the world is now relying on hyper-partisan "fact checking" organizations such as Snopes and Politifact to provide disclaimers on articles primarily from conservative websites.
"Identity Politics cannot be dismissed as some sort of idiocy on the part of a few kooks. It is institutionalized in American politics and culture and is becoming a habitual way of thinking."
"Because this preoccupation with gossip that determines peoples’ fates rewards the purveyors of it, the process is self-reinforcing... News is rarely news rather than hyped gossip about high profile people in government and on other big stages."
The Dow Jones average is closing above 25000 for the first time in its 121-year history, taking just 23 trading sessions to climb from 24000. That will go down in history as the fastest run from one millennium marker to the next.
The "huge story", as Graticule's Adam Levinson called it, will, it appears, be a "wake up call" for the West that seems to happily be ignoring this potential bombshell that is China's looming launch of domestic oil futures trading.
“As a historian of the great equity bubbles, I recognize we are currently showing signs of entering the blow-off or melt-up phase of this very long bull market...Good luck. We’ll all need some."
Social media companies are facing a herculean task following the January 1 kickoff of Germany's strict new "hate speech" laws, giving companies such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube 24 hours after a complaint to remove postings containing hate speech.
If you take your cues from Consensus Trance Central - the cable news networks, The New York Times, WashPost, and HuffPo - Trump is all that ails this foundering empire. Well, Trump and Russia...
With just a few hours left until the close of the last US trading session of 2017, and most of Asia already in the books, S&P futures are trading just shy of a new all time high as the dollar continued its decline ahead of the New Year holidays.
Uber is no longer the world's most valuable startup and according to the WSJ's unicorn tracker, at a valuation of roughly $48 billion, Uber's is now below its Chinese ride-hailing competitor, Didi Chuxing.
How the Clintons intervened to get a child sex trafficker off the hook in Haiti. The mainstream media either ignored the discovery or tried to cover it up.
