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by arrabe 1371 days ago
take a giant grain of salt when reading Doomberg:

Doomberg has a habit of wildly exaggerating and also were openly funding the Canadian "insurrectionist" trucker convoy (not taking a political position just pointing out he has a specific political tint to his tweets sort of like Zero Hedge).

Who is he? Well first of all he appears to be parroting a lot of talking points from a specific political spectrum, this much is true, given his open support for the Trucker Convoy movement in Canada which has been associated with the typical antithesis to what the other side of the political spectrum.

I'm deliberately refraining from using the term "left" or "right" here, just highlighting that Doomberg amongst other fintwitters (financial twitters) have begun to weaponize analytical financial "findings" by discounting/exaggerating/excluding contradictory data that would hurt their narrative.

In the case of Doomberg, his narrative and "analysis" tie together to ring well to a particular ex-president now being investigated for withholding top secret documents that supposedly impact national security. Again, refusing to use terms like "Trump" or "Biden" and being impartial to convey the ilk of which characters like Doomberg are weaponizing what superficially sounds rational with numbers to boot (which when you dive deeper is riddled with obvious omissions, discounts and exclusion) to echo back what his followers who lean in a particular political direction want to hear and buy his newsletter.

tldr: Doomberg has a long history of questionable accuracy and partiality to create an echo chamber which he is able to monetize by carefully disguising political narratives of a particular lens (and one which much of HN crowd who are employed at a large company would be alarmed at) in the form of "alpha generating macro economic analysis" (but never materializes).