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Yellen in the Hizzy!!!!!

Finally, An Up Week in the Market!

Just Because the Calendar Flipped It Does Not Mean You Should Too

She Just Got Her 2013 Year-End Statement

2013 – A Banner Year

Can’t the Whole Year Be Like This?

The Market vs. Deep Fried Turkey

Finally, A Losing Week… Now Everyone Can Relax

The Market is On Fire – But is it Overheated?

More New Highs

Graph – Look. This Could Become Big.

If You Build It, They Will Come.

There is Nothing Obstructing this Market.

“How Will You Live John? Day by Day...” – Rambo II

Don’t Trade This Market – Keep Your Cool

Government Shutdown – Our Quick Thoughts

Predictions are Less Important than Conviction

“Nothing, For The Most Part, Surprises Me Anymore”

The Markets are YELLEN!!!

The Return of the Crossing Guards

Summer – Goodbye, I Hardly Knew Ya.

And On the 7th Week the Market Rested

The Market Continues to Be Hated After a Great Month

“We’re Hoping That Our Mid-term Grades Will Really Help Our Average”

The Value of Doing Nothing

Earnings $eason!

Taper Tantrum

“Tell Me Quando, Quando, Quando”

Only One “Up Day” Last Week

Goodbye and Thank You, May.

If You Got a Problem, Yo I’ll Solve it.

Excellency, Fiddlesticks, My Name's Fred.

Volcano: A Mountain with Hiccups

You Don’t Fight a Junkyard Dog with ASPCA Rules

She's Joe Galloway. She's Downey's attorney. She's very pleased to meet you.

Mad Men… Investors, Not the Show.

U.S. Economic Data Looking Brighter

March Madness and the Stock Market

First the Dow, and now the S&P?!

Don’t Call It a Comeback – LL Cool J

Jennifer Lawrence and the Markets Both Kinda Fell

Why Danica Patrick’s Pole Position is Irrelevant

This Week’s Market is a Bunch of Bull

Barron’s – STOCK ALERT

Dow Jones Industrial Average Is 2% Away From An All Time High.

Two Weeks in a Row – A New Bull Market High

The Looming 2013 Debt Ceiling Debate

A Quick 2012 Wrap-up

Monetary Policy – Full Speed Ahead

Lindsay Lohan and the Fiscal Cliff

Today, I’m Blogging From The Global Indexing and ETF Conference

Fiscal Cliff Diving

Post-Election, the Equity Market Sell-off and the Fiscal Cliff

Hurricane Sandy and the Upcoming Election

The 25 Year Anniversary of Black Monday & 3rd Quarter Earnings Reports

Wealth Management in a Picture

My Nomination for an Emmy – The Upcoming VP Debate.

And We Head Into the 4th Quarter

Pump Up the Volume - DANCE

QE3 and the Kitchen Sink

Summer May Be Over – But the Rally Is Not

Fed Chief Offers a Vigorous Defense

Sell in May and Go Away is Not Looking Good This Year

So Much for the Dog Days of August!

Caution! Edgy Language and Straight Talk Follows

Dubious Earnings Coupled With a So-So Week

Mr. Blutarsky... Zero Point Zero

A Short Week

European Summit Ends With A BANG Prior To The 4th Of July

Operation Twist - Keep On Twisting

Spanish Banks, Miami Heat, Lindsay Lohan and Greek Elections

Hope Springs Eternal

A Horrible Jobs Report

Greece Lightning

A Stinging Loss - And a Reminder Why We Still Don't Like Financials

First Quarter Earnings - Lookout, Companies Are Beating!

A Potential Growth Problem?

7 More Reasons Why 2012 is not like 2011 or 2010

A Market Sell-Off, a New Hire, and a Promotion - All in One Week

A Recap of The Bull Quarter

2 Outta 12 - Still Pretty Sweet

"Client Last" Advice - The New York Times OpEd That Scorched The Industry

There Was a Party on Wall Street Last Week

The Three Year Anniversary

Another, Another Good Week

S&P 500 Hits 12-Month High

The Market is "Lin-ing"

All's quiet in the stock markets - More good news

Super Week - 18 Weeks of Stronger Economic Data

Lots of Good News Last Week

Last year's dogs are leading the pack - but the year is young

Companies, Start Your Engines! It's Earnings Season!

Rip Van Winkle

I Ate Too Much

Europe and the Redskins

Santa Claus Rocks

Irrational Exuberance - It's Been 15 Years

Not So Super

Hold Steady as Markets Ready for Holiday Rush

The market was up - it just didn't feel like it

Four Week Record is Gone

Four Positive Weeks in a Row - A Trick or Treat?

Third Quarter Gross Domestic Product - This Week

We Keep Seeing Better News - Really, I'm Not Kidding.

Good Markets, Good Economic News, But A Sad Week

Goodbye Third Quarter - Phew, Finally

"Significant" shattered any remaining confidence

A Good Week - Finally

A Time to Remember

Sour Grapes

Earthquakes & Hurricanes & Lions & Tigers...But No Bears, Oh My!

Awful Week - Broken Record

Holy Cow!

Double Dip? We don't see it―Yet.

Rough Week

Informative Investment Bulletin From JP Morgan Asset Management

Whipsawed...

Usually Washington is worried about Wall Street…

Thursday "Woo-Hoo!" Friday "Chicken Little"

A Perfect Week

After A Volatile Week US Markets End Mixed

Barely a gain… but we’ll take it

So far, June’s a LOSER TOO…Part II

So far, June’s a LOSER TOO

May was a LOSER

Well, May 21st came and went – we are still here.

Commodities and the Kentucky Derby – The Crowd Favorites Both Lost

Bernanke speaks…News – he does not say anything new…

Focus on the positive within the equity market.

Global growth slowing? Maybe…but it’s not stopping.

Oil, inflation, banks tightens, dollar, euro, oil – lather, rinse, repeat.

The good, the bad... but no real ugly

Bounce

WOW- What a week!

Perspectives On Japan And Other Market News

Non-Traded REITS: Now and in the Future

“Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper…” Bill Murray as Carl Spackler in Caddy Shack, 1980

Trees Don't Grow to the Sky

“From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli"-unknown author, the Marines’ Hymn

Turns out, “denial” IS a river in Egypt

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” Vince Lombardi

“I am the Egyptian Magician!” – The Jerky Boys, 1993

The 7 week winning streak is OVER…well, at least for the S&P 500!!

"A double Polar Burger wit' everything.”

Tis the Season to Be Jolly…Earnings Season!

REIT Conference Recap

Quick Post-Holiday Weekend Recap

Shortened Recap for the Week

“Oh, Eddie… If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn’t be more surprised than I am now…” Christmas Vacation, 1989

“I will be watching you Focker…” -Robert DeNiro, playing Jack Byrnes in Meet the Parents, 2000

“You could’ve killed me slugging me in the gut like that. That’s how Houdini died, you know…” -John Candy, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, 1987

“Don’t write this down, but I find Milton probably as boring as you find Milton.” -Professor Jennings, Animal House, 1978

“We’ve got some good news, and we’ve got some bad news.” – The Hangover, 2009

“The teacher asked me what was the capital of North Carolina…I said Washington, D. C…” Talladega Nights, 2006

“Well, I’m not even sure that’s a crime anymore…” Fletch, 1985

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