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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Idiot.
I’m voting from Trump.
I still detest blog pimps with names like sundress.
My apologies to sundress. I hope she gets a real name someday.
tx! A lot of freepers swear by ZeroHedge and I’m right in there. At least as far as the swearing part goes...
This whole mess really disturbs me. There's people that have been wonderful assets to Conservative cause over the years tossed out the window because they're not Cruz cultists. It's short term thinking for a real scorched earth type movement.
I love everybody. That way I don’t have to remember names.
Well, all except for Odorko. And the Clintoons.
That was always kinda apparent. No single person could be that prolific with writing. There could be more than 3 now.
This whole mess really disturbs me. There's people that have been wonderful assets to Conservative cause over the years tossed out the window because they're not Cruz cultists. It's short term thinking for a real scorched earth type movement.
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Miscreants? My, whose side are you on? The Federal Reserve’s?
Sundance sure did. He was all over the Trayvon Martin story. I applauded his work back then. Nowadays, though, he’s just another smug Trump defender.
Right. ZH is a site for perma-bears and doomers who don't have a firm grasp of finance or economics, and who will believe anything they are told as long as it is packaged as countering all the propaganda from the government, MSM, the feds and especially the most evil organization of all time, Goldman Sachs. Make your investment decisions based on information Tyler Durden and company provide, and you'll end up voting for a living.
Good one. Globalist!!!
Uninformed opinion? Of some bozo blogger? Should I set up a live feed, or something?
Hey, now. I make my investment decisions based upon some dude named after a movie character. If he’s afraid to put his real name on the line, then everything he says must be true.
I guess you didn't read my post about getting various sources of information.
And, since you do have such an excellent grasp of these things, please send us to your website.
Hey, I step in some dog poop, and I don’t call it a “source of information.”
I hear this Durden fellow makes some great soap, however, so he's got that going for him.....
Traitor!!!!
I remember that Sundance revealed the Skittles were used with cough syrup and watermelon soda to make something called purple drank that the gangsters were all mixing up and it was a drug which made you slow and stupid. The cough syrup had codeine and could be found by robbing homes for the contents of their medicine cabinets.
It was all very interesting at the time.
Tell me good sources for financial news and information
I’m always willing to learn.
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