A broken clock is right twice a day. ZH has an overt political bias and is a perennial pessimist, but they do actually perform meaningful economic analysis.

Edit: Then again, their articles sometimes feature near complete fabrications, i.e., "Minneapolis Fed president Neel Kashkari [...] said that it was time for the Fed to pick up where the USSR left off and start redistributing wealth", which is not even remotely close to what was actually said.

ZH is unmitigated garbage. It began by pushing the standard tropes of goldbug interpretations of the economy with the banker bad, armchair (amateur) realist good and an unrealized schadenfreude of global economic pandemic. Now it's realized that its early readership is just a subset of the broader misinformed armchair conspiracy theorist and has expanded its message to them as well.

Just as easily as someone in software can bullshit their way through a presentation with a couple years cursory understanding of SWE topics, same goes with "researching" and writing a ZH econ article. ZH does not do meaningful economic analysis, look elsewhere.

Why would you expect downvotes on ZH?

HN is more aligned with ZH than not in the sense that it seems most on here believe the stock market is rigged or a bubble or otherwise not a sound investment.