buying stories you are sold or buying shares you bought

Price is everything. Everything is not the only thing but prices are everything and the only story. For politicians words are friends and numbers are enemies. For speculators risking their own money, numbers are friends and words are enemies. Why? Well the truth cannot be told by those who know. Why? Because the ability to predict the future is a fundamental component in measuring intelligence. Why? Because why that's why, because asking why is, as in logic, a fallacy begging the answer.