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I definitely see your perspective and agree with you in principle.. but on the other hand, for a lot of these topics it is really difficult to find a forum for intelligent and at least superficially science/fact-based discussion from more-informed-than-average people.

I also think that macro economics are pretty important if you're trying to divine a profit from the startup world. If you believe we're in a bubble, you can't really afford to not be aware of what's happening in both the financial markets and consumer markets..

[jdminhbg]

The problem is that once you allow that crack in the wall, articles that generate outrage and comments and clicks all flood through. For example, on the front page right now is this article about pharma pricing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10595041. Is it likely to draw measured, informative comments about how your business should approach pricing and PR, or is it likely to draw yet another tedious flamewar about health care policy?

I think it's reasonable that knowing macroeconomics news is important to running a business, but it's not the case that everything that's important to running a business has to be on HN. It's hard to run a business if you are constantly fighting with your spouse/partner/whatever, but that shouldn't mean flooding the front page with relationship advice.