You get downvoted, but IMO you make a good point. There's a lot of things on ZH that are far-fetched, many articles by guest writers that are clearly in the 'co

You get downvoted, but IMO you make a good point. There's a lot of things on ZH that are far-fetched, many articles by guest writers that are clearly in the 'conspiracy theory' corner, but if you use your brain to filter out the noise, there's a lot of truth to be found on ZH that most other media outlets don't want to report on (for whatever reason). It's not just HN commenters who are typically poorly educated about finance, almost nobody thinks any more about these things than what they get from the mainstream media. Years later, after things have crashed and burned and many of the 'conspiracy theories' that had been on ZH years before they turned out to be (at least partially) true, those same people flock to movies like 'The Big Short' in large numbers, and the talk of town is 'how nobody could have seen this coming'... :-/