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When everyone agrees on something, that doesn't make it correct — market history is full of examples where consensus was badly wrong.
When most analysts, investors, and financial media converge on a similar narrative, it creates a feeling of certainty — but converging opinions isn't the same as being correct. Sometimes it simply reflects everyone reading the same reports and reacting to the same events the same way.
Analysts and portfolio managers are often measured relative to their peers — a large deviation from consensus that turns out wrong hurts a career more than agreeing with a consensus that turns out wrong. That creates a built-in incentive to converge around a similar view, even without any bad intent.
Broad consensus doesn't mean 'this is definitely right,' and it doesn't mean 'this is definitely wrong' either — it just means a lot of people think the same thing, which by itself provides no new information. Independently checking the assumptions (not just the agreement on them) is what actually matters.
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