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The Real Identities Of 'Tyler Durden' And Zero Hedge Have Been Revealed
Business Insider ^ | 4-29-2016 | Will Martin

Posted on 04/29/2016 9:22:12 AM PDT by blam

Will Martin
April 29, 2016

The men behind the legendary finance blog Zero Hedge have been unmasked after one former blogger with the site revealed the identity of his employers.

Speaking with Bloomberg reporters Tracy Alloway and Luke Kawa, Colin Lokey — described as a "political science graduate with an MBA and a Southern twang" — said he was part of a three-man team running Zero Hedge, the blog best known for its sensationalist headlines and bearish outlook on the world.

Lokey, 32, says the other men behind the site are 37-year-old Daniel Ivandjiiski, a Bulgarian former hedge fund analyst, and Tim Backshall, a 45-year-old credit derivatives strategist. Lokey claims to have worked for Zero Hedge for more than a year.

The identity of the bloggers running Zero Hedge has long been the subject of speculation in the financial community, with Ivandjiiski often cited as the likely source of much of the site's content. As early as 2009, speculation that Ivandjiiski could be behind the blog appeared in US media, with a New York Post article titled "BLOGGER MAY HAVE A PAST" speculating that he was in fact behind Zero Hedge.

Ivandjiiski worked in a hedge fund before being kicked out of the securities industry during the height of the financial crisis in 2008 for insider trading, the report says.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; bulgaria; colinlokey; danielivandjiiski; durden; finance; lukekawa; news; sundance; timbackshall; tracyalloway; tylerdurden; tylerdurdenmyass; zerohedge
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To: rockrr

Now if only the zerosense hedgehog blog can unmask the “business insider” blog (the bi-blog), we’ll be getting somewhere.


21 posted on 04/29/2016 10:28:11 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

Not sure care what the real identity of sundress at conservative clothestree is. :-)


22 posted on 04/29/2016 10:30:19 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido
>Not sure care what the real identity of sundress at conservative clothestree is. :-)

I detest people like you. Sun Dance has been on the leading edge of good conservative posts for ages now. He's certainty done more for actual conservatives than most of the conservative media.

He led the charge on expose the fraud that was the Zimmerman railroading while most of so called Conservative sites just spouted the MSN official line on that racist murdering white man, Zimmerman. He dug and dug and exposed what actually happened that night and helped save Zimmerman from a crime he didn't commit. Sundance was digging up real facts that helped clear the man.

Just because someones not slobbering all over Cruz live you, gives you no right to attack a good solid conservative. You should be ashamed of yourself.

23 posted on 04/29/2016 10:36:42 AM PDT by RedWulf (Defeat Hillery or kiss the republic goodbye.)
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To: RedWulf

I detest blog pimps.


24 posted on 04/29/2016 10:38:06 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: blam; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ..
Thanks blam.

25 posted on 04/29/2016 10:48:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: RedWulf

I was all over the Zimmerman case from the beginning, and I don’t remember some bozo named Sundance.


26 posted on 04/29/2016 11:04:55 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
>I was all over the Zimmerman case from the beginning, and I don’t remember some bozo named Sundance.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/category/trayvon-martin/

27 posted on 04/29/2016 11:08:53 AM PDT by RedWulf (Defeat Hillery or kiss the republic goodbye.)
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To: RedWulf

And now that I think about it, unless he or she was blogging from Florida, it’s not even possible that the information he or she was providing was anything but rehash.


28 posted on 04/29/2016 11:11:57 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
I was all over the Zimmerman case from the beginning, and I don’t remember some bozo named Sundance.

Then where were you getting YOUR information?

Because Sundance completely dismantled the dishonest presentations made by the MSM.

29 posted on 04/29/2016 11:12:41 AM PDT by Nacho Bidnith (America is a country founded by geniuses and run by idiots. Trump 2016)
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To: 1rudeboy
I was all over the Zimmerman case from the beginning, and I don’t remember some bozo named Sundance.

Then where were you getting YOUR information?

Because Sundance completely dismantled the dishonest presentations made by the MSM.

30 posted on 04/29/2016 11:12:42 AM PDT by Nacho Bidnith (America is a country founded by geniuses and run by idiots. Trump 2016)
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To: Nacho Bidnith

I don’t remember, frankly. But I was not getting my information from a blog.


31 posted on 04/29/2016 11:14:30 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Larry Lucido; RedWulf

I detest both of you.


32 posted on 04/29/2016 11:14:43 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Trump is great. Just great. He's going to do great things and America will be great and spectacular.)
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To: 1rudeboy
>And now that I think about it, unless he or she was blogging from Florida, it’s not even possible that the information he or she was providing was anything but rehash.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Go read the start of the archive on it if you want to learn the truth.

33 posted on 04/29/2016 11:14:45 AM PDT by RedWulf (Defeat Hillery or kiss the republic goodbye.)
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To: RedWulf

I’d rather that you post one or two examples, here.


34 posted on 04/29/2016 11:19:40 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Larry Lucido
I detest blog pimps.

Am I missing something? Except for vanities, everything posted on FR is a news article or blog article from another site (with or without being excerpted per copyright law) that we then discuss here at FR. If we didn't "pimp" someone else's article I guess we wouldn't have much on a site would we.

Self righteous much?

35 posted on 04/29/2016 11:25:10 AM PDT by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis & other Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: 1rudeboy

>I’d rather that you post one or two examples, here.

And I’d rather you didn’t call someone a bozo without checking your facts first. But hey it’s an imperfect world and you’re going to have to do your own research.


36 posted on 04/29/2016 11:33:33 AM PDT by RedWulf (Defeat Hillery or kiss the republic goodbye.)
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To: Larry Lucido; lexington minuteman 1775

The Conservative Treehouse blew the lid on the “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” lie of Ferguson; he busted open the Trayvon story as a lie. Lately he’s connected the dots (via FEC.gov) to the Cruz superpacs paying off “conservative” media. He does the investigative journalism that the investigative journalists won’t do. He’s a hero and a friend to US-—maybe not to you, in which case you may be in the wrong place. He’s busted lie after lie of Ted Cruz. Is that bothering you? If you’re a cruzbot, please leave. Otherwise Sundance deserves the respect we give heroes like JR.


37 posted on 04/29/2016 11:40:49 AM PDT by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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To: RedWulf

RedWulf: see my post 37. Time for a zot on these people like Lucindo.


38 posted on 04/29/2016 11:42:42 AM PDT by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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To: gg188

Who is this sundress of whom you speak?


39 posted on 04/29/2016 11:49:03 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Nacho Bidnith

Nacho-—spot on. I get so tired of people coming here expression their “opinion” that is totally uninformed (the very DEFINITION of a Cruzer). People need to master an issue-—the info is free and at your fingertips, in the Internet-—before posting on FR and demonstrating they don’t know a f-ing thing about it.


40 posted on 04/29/2016 11:50:21 AM PDT by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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