Big publishers want to sell already big names; discovering new ones is not in their wheelhouse. Are they responsible for the problems in the financial markets? Of course not, but they do have a perverse, if indirect, impact. By constantly publishing the same Wall Street friendly message, they contribute to the brainwashing.

The Stock Market is a dynamic place where investors can consistently make reasonable returns on their capital if they comply with the basic principles of the endeavor AND if they don’t measure their progress too frequently with irrelevant measuring devices

A correction is a beautiful thing, simply the flip side of a rally, big or small. Theoretically, even technically I’m told, corrections adjust equity prices to their actual value or support levels. In reality, it’s much easier than that. Here’s a list of ten things to think about doing, or to avoid doing, during corrections of any magnitude:

Dow industrials recoup some after near 1,000-point plunge By Kate Gibson, MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks caved on Thursday, with the Dow industrials making a comeback of sorts from a drop of nearly 1,000 points, as Europe’s financial troubles took hold on Wall Street. At its height, the major stock indexes were all [...]