Ignore the Financial Media
Everyone has a take on what the markets will do next and what you should do about it now. Whether that take has any relation to reality or not doesn’t seem to have much relevance. And unlike pre-game shows, no one is keeping track of how their analyst's picks have done throughout the season.
What are the financial media’s incentives? Not to put too fine a point on it, but they are there to make money. They do this by monetizing your attention. The vast majority do this by selling ads (of one form or another), though some still use a traditional subscription model on top of (or sometimes in place of) the ads. Essentially, if you aren’t paying attention, they aren’t making money. To a very large degree, you are the product.
The goal here is not to give you bad information. The goal is to keep you around for the ads. The vast majority of reporters want to try and help their readers and viewers, but their incentives make it hard to do that.
For a lengthy but very informative discussion of why you might want to ignore most of what you see and hear in the financial media, read this article.
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At Stout Bowman every investment client is first a financial planning client; it's important to go through that process before we make any professional investment recommendations. Therefore, we strive to make financial planning understandable and comfortable every step of the way. One way to do that is to provide our clients access to financial education resources. To that end, we have subscribed to educational websites to receive their news feeds and present a list of their latest ten articles on a page on this website. Currently, we subscribe to