One can never know the true story of anything based on what you read, but one can perhaps find some truths from the meta. Before Snowden, there was about 10 ye

One can never know the true story of anything based on what you read, but one can perhaps find some truths from the meta. Before Snowden, there was about 10 years of news regarding the NSA desiring to spy on everyone (coming from such organizations as the EFF, which -- while clearly biased, are usually not pie in the sky fanciful.) I'm not too familiar with Zero Hedge, personally. My "first impression" (just looking at Zero Hedge) is that it's not your ultra-conspiracy-theory Alex Jones type site. Definitely no Jade Helm 15s or Illuminati here. However, I do think that the tone of the site is excessively negative and excessively Chicken Little. It also hawks gold in a bad way. Very much a red flag. In the real world, gold tends to be a more emotion driven trade than a logical one -- http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21692942-investors-are-cautiously-returning-fickle-market-hedge-against-ignorance http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21692942... . The best time to buy gold is actually during times of good prosperity, when the fearmongers stop pushing up the value. :) I think many of the subjects Zero Hedge reports on look like real issues, to be honest. ZH doesn't seem to have any solutions other than "OMG world going to end buy gold!". Which is... not helpful (see above). There's too much of the "Evil Elite Wall Street / Politician" angle as well; while we should be concerned about inequality, concentration of capital in markets, etc., casting them in emotional terms isn't helpful either. Having said that, there was an anti-vax article. Zero Hedge better be careful, that definitely is Alex Jones territory. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-28/why-our-children-should-hate-us-read-lance-simmens-article-banned-huffington-post http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-28/why-our-children-sh... That's my first impression. Maybe I'm wrong, I'd love to hear a counterpoint. From a perspective of where I get my "truths" from, personally I get most of my business news from The Economist and Kiplinger. Even then, this is not really for investment purposes. The best investment advice is relatively simple: invest periodically in a variety of baskets, and hold long.