The Grape's Vine you may find presents straight-up financial information about the economy as a whole and the remarkable aspect is the level-headed approach it takes doesn't match at all the tone the Grape Viner takes on FB where he only plays to the novitiates, most of whom can barely read. That, in fact, is one of the biggest problems with how Facebook eats people's minds in that people surround themselves with people who agree with them and who never contest bogus positions.
Facebook is like meeting with the Mayor in "Blazing Saddles" when they went harrumph, harrumph, harrumph at each other. It's easy to make it stop. Flash some nipples at them and they run every time.
How to get there: if an 'Elliot Wave' makes any sense to you then The Grape's Vine may be what you want.
There's substantially more objectivity to that which the Grape Viner writes on his blog than that which he writes on Facebook but we don't care about the latter since you're unlikely to use Facebook anyway.
More often than not, I skip The Grape Vine's more elaborate financial articles since I really don't have much interest and we're counting on Donald Trump to finally trigger the revolution with people in the streets and cities burning. Nevertheless, the information he presents is usually well-researched and his knowledge is authoritative. We know he's not pimpin' because he's not offering a book for $9.95 with "The Grape Vine's Secrets to Million-Dollar Investing" and even Cramer is pushing one of those.
Note on Trump: he's already started the corporate giveaways with Carrier and he doesn't even have a budget yet. He will have the cities burning in no time.
While there is strong disagreement with the Grape Viner's political views, he doesn't, at least to my knowledge, slant The Grape's Vine whereas Facebook is different. I'm not judging him for that since I routinely slant things here on Ithaka. The difference, of course, is that I'm right and he's wrong (larfs).
Blogs force a type of honesty which isn't required on Facebook or other social networks and that comes because the blog author has no idea who will read the content. When you know everyone who reads your message will agree with it, you have the freedom to suggest all kinds of ludicrous things but that doesn't work on the open market where even people who know me will heckle if they think it's warranted.
The above is less kozmik than it seems since you will see a marked difference between the content of The Grape Viner's blog and his online scribes. The same is true with me since I have no respect for online and will throw things out there just to keep them away from me whereas I take Ithaka quite seriously.
Facebook is like meeting with the Mayor in "Blazing Saddles" when they went harrumph, harrumph, harrumph at each other. It's easy to make it stop. Flash some nipples at them and they run every time.
How to get there: if an 'Elliot Wave' makes any sense to you then The Grape's Vine may be what you want.
There's substantially more objectivity to that which the Grape Viner writes on his blog than that which he writes on Facebook but we don't care about the latter since you're unlikely to use Facebook anyway.
More often than not, I skip The Grape Vine's more elaborate financial articles since I really don't have much interest and we're counting on Donald Trump to finally trigger the revolution with people in the streets and cities burning. Nevertheless, the information he presents is usually well-researched and his knowledge is authoritative. We know he's not pimpin' because he's not offering a book for $9.95 with "The Grape Vine's Secrets to Million-Dollar Investing" and even Cramer is pushing one of those.
Note on Trump: he's already started the corporate giveaways with Carrier and he doesn't even have a budget yet. He will have the cities burning in no time.
While there is strong disagreement with the Grape Viner's political views, he doesn't, at least to my knowledge, slant The Grape's Vine whereas Facebook is different. I'm not judging him for that since I routinely slant things here on Ithaka. The difference, of course, is that I'm right and he's wrong (larfs).
Blogs force a type of honesty which isn't required on Facebook or other social networks and that comes because the blog author has no idea who will read the content. When you know everyone who reads your message will agree with it, you have the freedom to suggest all kinds of ludicrous things but that doesn't work on the open market where even people who know me will heckle if they think it's warranted.
The above is less kozmik than it seems since you will see a marked difference between the content of The Grape Viner's blog and his online scribes. The same is true with me since I have no respect for online and will throw things out there just to keep them away from me whereas I take Ithaka quite seriously.
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