Completely unplugging from economic and political news feeds has probably been the best thing I've done for my level of confidence and level of day-to-day stress. According to news organizations, as Altucher points out, the world has been ending for the past 100 years, there's danger lurking behind every corner, and every day that you survive without being struck by some catastrophe, personal or general, is no more than sheer luck, because sooner or later you're going to get the bird flu and die or your country will go bankrupt, or this or that bubble will pop and you will be forced to live a poverty-laden life, and so on and so on.

Everything will be alright, there will be ups and downs, but we'll get through them all the same.