Well, the news isn’t getting any better, is it? We hear that the Asian markets have lost 7%, that the German market is off 10%, and around the globe, it seems as if the news isn’t any better.
The problem is, in a word, “Chicken Little”. Before the bailout received all the publicity, before the news media started screaming that the sky (or in this case, the Stock Market) was falling, there was some semblance of sanity in the market. Companies that were being beat down went down, because they were being beat down. Now, we’ve got media talking heads telling people to “Get Out Before It’s Too Late!”, which of course, is causing the panic.
Now, the markets are falling on every piece of news, because it’s all about the emotions, all about the media stirring up sensationalism.
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