I really like the economist, they are quite centric in their views but don't hide a certain bias for strong representative democracies, deregulation, globalism and open (publicly traded) markets.

Their writing style is probably the cleanest in the industry and they always point out potential conflict of interest even though I've never seen the write anything really positive about the companies Exor controls (Stellantis, Philips, etc).

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giacomoforte 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Nobody ever recognizes themselves as extremist.

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hliyan an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Economist Group is largely owned by the Agnelli family ("Italy's Kennedys"), Canadian billionaire Stephen Smith, the Rothschilds and others, which is likely a significant factor in those biases.

	▲	mejutoco 10 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		One things I like is that when the economist talks about a business or an author, they mention if there is a conflict of interest (this and that works for this or is owned by that)
	▲	amarcheschi an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I don't know why this is downvoted, in italy agnelli owned via Gedi group various newspapers and as you can imagine it's not ideal - although since this march group Gedi changed owner

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pydry an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

If you find a topic where reality lies outside of the overton window for western elites at the time theyll reliably get it wrong.

There are a number of examples of this (e.g. the Afghanistan and Iraq wars).

They usually use a lot of hedging language to cover their behinds when they make predictions, though, so their predictions are usually more nudges and winks than they are commitments.