Forbes



He who dies with the most toys wins.

Forbes is clickbait hot garbage 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. It reels in unsuspecting readers with sensationalist titles e.g. 'Shocking secret of the next iPhone', but the actual article itself reveals no such 'shocking secret'. The Forbes website is also infested with ads, which requires using an ad-blocking software to circumvent if one is somehow foolish enough to still visit it.

"Most Powerful"
Not to be outdone by Walgreen's checkout lane, Forbes hosts its own yearly popularity contest. Putin wins every year. He's the Meryl Streep of plutocrats.

There is a certain ghastly irony in Putin winning "Miss Popularity" because one of Forbes' journalists, was murdered in Moscow in a contract killing in 2004. The publisher of the Russian edition of Forbes stated that the murder was "definitely linked to his professional activity," and it has been speculated that Forbes's publication of a list of wealthiest Russians was specifically linked to Klebnikov's murder. The motive presumably was that one or more oligarchs were angry that their ill-gotten wealth was being revealed to the public. Forbes main list of the world's wealthiest people is still a thorn in the side of Russian oligarchs because — rightly or wrongly — the 96 Russians on the Forbes list are synonymous with those that are on the U.S. Treasury list of Russians subject to economic sanctions.

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In recent years, Forbes has decided to destroy its brand by hosting non-editorially reviewed blogs. One of these is White Coat Underground, most are OK for random blogs by any bozo, many are comically awful (Heartland Institute shills,, other random industry shills, Bitcoin scammers, and Austrian schoolers among other forms of crankery).

The site does a roaring trade in op-eds ghostwritten for corporations. Amy Westervelt, an ex-Forbes journalist, describes how it works:

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. If someone references a claim to "Forbes," look more closely. If their bio does not say they are actually a Forbes staffer, or that the article is also in the print Forbes, it should not be credited to "Forbes".

So quit your unfounded fear mongering about global warming  and get back to work living the American dream of paying for your own healthcare,  like Ayn Rand. 🇱🇮

Bizarrely, in spite of publishing some of the most migraine-inducing denialist articles in the past (see above), Forbes recently began running articles in support of reality the consensus view on AGW: like this one by a meteorologist.

Good Forbes blogs

 * Peter Lipson, a.k.a. User:PalMD &mdash; science and medicine.
 * Peter J. Reilly &mdash; tax issues. Has covered Kent Hovind's legal troubles extensively.