Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
It's something that my FIL (himself a retired banking exec who lived through the S&L meltdown) has been bemoaning (okay, okay, more like ranting...) for YEARS-- that there is a huge reality and ethics breach opening ever-further in that particular analyst centric loop that controls corporate decision-making. I confess, it wasn't until after 2008 that I began to see what he was talking about-- that companies are increasingly about pandering (really, no other word is accurate) to stock analyst whims rather than making their own decisions about what might be good for the company, its employees, and its customers.

Don't worry.

The Fed, through it's QE program, is removing any risk of a declining stock market at the present time.

So your investments are safe.