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Forbes is a biweekly publication founded in 1917. It has the hilarious motto "The Capitalist Tool." The magazine publishes long lists of people richer than you and things you cannot afford. These days, it has also become a terrible website that should largely be ignored.

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[edit] Forbes.com

In recent years, Forbes has decided to destroy its brand by hosting editorially-unreviewed blogs. One of these is White Coat Underground, most are OK for random blogs by any bozo, many are comically awful (Heartland Institute shills,[1] Bitcoin scammers,[2] Austrian schoolers, nanotechnology advocates).

Any page whose address starts with forbes.com/sites/ is just some random bozo with a blog, even if they try to make out that writing for a Forbes blog makes them more reliable than writing for Examiner.com.[3] If someone references a claim to "Forbes," look more closely.

[edit] Good Forbes blogs

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  1. Heartland fellows write their columns.
  2. Forbes may be the most prolific peddler of Bitcoin in the mainstream media.
  3. This has, however, resulted in Forbes publishing pretty high-caliber video game criticism and analysis from, for example, scientific and feminist perspectives -- so much so that said critiques are among the first results when Googling analyses. (Stopped clock strikes again.)
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