“Hmm an article written by someone with a character name from Fightclub. Very credible. Here is a quote from Wikipedia about the website”
Zero Hedge is a reasonably credible source of information regarding finance and geo politics.
The name of the author is irrelevant, the articles are simply reposts from other sources and are usually from respected and knowledgable writers.
Simply quoting wikipedia and its CNN quote, as though CNN has ANY credibility at all, is just lazy. I hope you do more diligent research about subjects when they are more important than simply willy waving on pprune.