I don’t know what your life experiences are and how many countries you’ve lived in/languages you speak or people you know.
What I can say after living in 8 countries over 20 years and knowing multiple foreign languages is that zero hedge is designed to look real to a person who has a critical eye towards the US but in actuality is little more than sophisticated propaganda. I could take any articles’s “facts” and depending on the direction I want the reader to go, portray the US or Russia as evil/the victim/succeeding etc.
Once you realize that “fake news” is often about how “facts” are used to support a biased view, then you can look at everything more critically and have a happier life as you won’t need to take such sites so seriously. I was a regular reader for years but finally realized that my desire to get an alternative perspective wasn’t worth the negative effects such articles had on my thinking so I just cut it off and get other sources. A good one to consider is Calculated risk as they did a good job of calling the housing bubble but are grounding in facts.
For a while I read the housingbubble.com but they had a hard time realizing there would be a real recovery. If you join the permanent doom camp, it’s like putting on blinders and you won’t be ready when there is a recovery.
ZH is someone like that in the economic/political sphere.
