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The level of care and attention to detail isn't limited just to their 404's - I find the FT is the best paper out there for macro issues.

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I think I recall Chomsky saying something along the lines that the financial press is the most reliable because it isn't in their economic interest to mislead their audience.

One of the most eye opening experiences I've had related to press was working in a hedge fund and being able to access paid political research reports.

No BS, no childish manipulation, just crude analysis of a bunch of people competing for power.

Do you remember what they were called?

I am interested in this as well. The regular media can be monotonous or driven by agendas. Would be great to find content created by folks paid to write unbiased, say it like it is.

Afaik that‘s what Stratfor does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor

They provide a free weekly newsletter as well.

Probably a Bloomberg terminal.

Bloomberg terminal bundles a lot of mid tier analysts, but all the market leading analyst firms sell their copy for FAR more than what Bloomberg will pay.

The analysis industry is fascinating, you're essentially paying gobsmacking amounts of money to a single journalist to follow 1 stock.

It isn’t? Isn’t it in their interest to mislead their audience such that their audience puts their vast wealth towards causes the FT editors like?

I think this is the relevant clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsESsHZNoO4

FT is one of the few papers online that I feel is worth paying for. I agree they are good on macro issues for sure.

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