Shoot. I remember the first Gulf War. As much as I wish otherwise, I'm not a young buck anymore. :/

Philosophically, we're pretty much on the same page. My enjoyment for reading business articles died about three or four years back, near the beginning of the end for a lot of retail companies and all of these "analytic articles" kept on ignoring key things like rent and leveraged debt and companies' slow reaction to changing buying habits caused not by Amazon and the internet, but people's lack of jobs and such. It was all "Amazon This!" and "Consumer Confidence That!"

After that, I pretty much felt like everyone was either making stuff up or outright lying to me, or writing the most inane and asinine articles. I'm not gonna name names, but you know how everyone on here loves to hate read that New York opinionist? I got someone like that too, someone so bad I once wrote to the paper editor, in summary, "Why do you guys allow comments on everyone else's opinion pieces, but not theirs? Your readers deserve the chance to call bs on their work." Never got a response, and those comment sections never opened up either.

I trusted NBR, because with the exception of a few talking heads segments, they mostly said "this happened" and left it up to me as a viewer to figure out why. It looks like your suggestions both fit that nicely, so I'm definitely gonna check them out.

Random aside and related but not, because it touches on your theme of collective heads in the sand, I'm really starting to worry that no one seems to really talk about agriculture for what it is. Between climate change, corporate farming starting to get kind of sideways, low wages and lies in enemployment numbers, and on and on I could go, I'm really worried about a future of growing food insecurity and all anyone ever talks about is "America has a bacon glut because China is demanding our disease free pork but they don't like bacon" and yeah, that's interesting, but the federal minimum wage hasn't gone up in thirteen years, rent is crazy, and mom and pop corner stores are tanking people. Maybe we oughta talk about food prices more.