The rise of momentum investing — buying stocks as they rise, selling them as they fall — and of minute-by-minute market coverage in the media has made rumors more contagious and more potent, exacerbating investors' tendency to herd.
Not much to this rumor, and not much to support it either, but that's what makes rumors go, right?
"The fact that it's people making rumors or thinking that you fucked my wife and you not saying nothing and you carrying it like that.
If people are always teasing you, it might be because your certain 'Enemy' is making rumors about you.
Eventually, some people who are making rumors and saying very rude things about you will stop because you are a new person.
I tell them, 'Don't make up rumors.' Things like that".
Talk spread so quickly that the Global Times, one of China's official papers, ran a commentary Monday titled "For those who make up rumors of coup in North Korea, is it so funny?" © Washington Post.
If I didn't, I'd still be shamed and guys would make up rumors about me, as their attempt to ruin my reputation and salvage theirs.
I think it makes a lot of sense, but that doesn't make the rumor true.
Saying something like "no comment" can arouse further suspicion and actually make the rumor mill work harder.
