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With the Skyscraper tall wall of facts that article is composed, one would think such writing would have an index of references. But nope, what The Economists publishes sounds factual but is barely a nudge above laundry room gossip with a complete lack of references, lack of accountability for that wall of facts. It is truly amazing how manipulated our official discourse is on these critical issues. How to know what is opinion?


Why do you say that? Almost every paragraph contains numerous references to either industry reports, sales numbers and market shares, various company projections past and present, relevant global events, laws passed or government statements, market performance and whatnot.

They aren't enumerated and listed at the end sure, but they're there.


Try tracking them down, many are just dead ends, many are opinion presented as facts.


I assume that in order to make this claim you have indeed tracked them down and could then share your results in order to corroborate this?


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Having spoken to someone who simply felt a nationalistic fervor in their formative years, I can tell you some folks just do it for fun.


> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like


Just follow what the stock is doing. Everything else is bullshit.




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