[RawAlex]

Part of the problems these days is that the "news media" has turned into the biggest bunch of speculators, pontificators, and out right fear mongerers. A gas provisioning issue in the Atlanta area has become a "fuel crisis in the south", stretched all out of proportion.

The stock market is no better, fueled by instant analysis and trigger happy computer programs, traders make moves so dramatic and so huge because each little piece of bad news is amplified and echoed, over and over until it is deafening. They end up as a bunch of computerized sheep selling because of this or buying because of that and few seeming to have the balls to stay the course, at least in the mid term.

Too few facts, too many opinions, and not enough true judgement.