She makes a suggestion. You agree and log off, and in two minutes your investing for the week is complete. But hold on. More financial advice, rather than less, may be necessary. In the long-term, the economy ebbs and flows with generational changes.
People spend money differently as they age, and that affects the stock market.
Purchases that fuel the basic consumer economy such as durable goods, clothes and houses could drop, along with the earnings of a lot of companies. Technology is another wildcard. Different technologies, now still in their infancy, may profoundly change the way you live, the economy and the operations of the stock market itself. They are here, if only in what investors will later see as their early evolutionary stages. Some things in the immediate future can be foreseen.