Ed Zitron is not a trained journalist, so he's not particularly good at it. i think his finance speculation is... a little wild. but i think he has an instinct for what's going on, and he's being a dick about it in the way that trained journalists can't, or won't. there are things journalists and analysts talk about with each other in private and then later when a scandalous thing happens, they are like "oh everybody knew, we just couldn't say for sure." people like Ed just blurt it out.