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Leave to Forbes to write a massively hyped headline, and then deliver NO useful information whatsoever on the topic at hand. I feel like I knew more about thorium's potential BEFORE reading this.

Is it just me, or is Forbes doing this a lot lately?

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Somewhere around 2009 or so it feels like they made the switch from a highbrow Economist-style strategy, targeting upper-income discerning readers of the print magazine, to a linkbait AOL-style strategy, making vaguely provocative claims about economics.

I thought they made that switch somewhere around 1996-2000 when Steve Forbes ran for U.S. president (and I still read the paper edition fairly regularly). I haven't read it since, though they do have at least one good blogger these days (who I subscribe to via their personal site's RSS feed, which they've redirected to their Forbes RSS feed; I still don't visit the site).

Forbes has a good site, the bottom feels a bit pop-culturish but overall some interesting information

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