Wtromboni,

The data about 3rd q. GDP growth was from the Atlanta Fed. That's obviously an extremely reliable (albeit certainly not infallible) source for economic data.

Your paranoid schizophrenia is only slightly less apparent than Steve-o's.

My investing advice did not originate from me, obviously, but it is timeless.

Anything a retail investor reads on the internet or sees on T.V. is already public information fully incorporated into stock prices by the time a retail investor becomes aware of it.

Thus a retail investor derives absolutely no competitive advantage from taking action based upon it.

The markets are certainly not perfectly efficient, but they are more efficient than to allow ProGlib bozos any competitive advantage in their investing decisions simply by reading the NY Times, Forbes, Barron's, CNN, or whatever your "sources" might be.