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		<title>‘Tis the Season to be Hopeful!</title>
		<link>http://mkgfinancial.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/tis-the-season-to-be-hopeful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men&#8217;s or children&#8217;s, are little. In this great universe of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mkgfinancial.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7028073&amp;post=1100&amp;subd=mkgfinancial&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Kicking the Can!”  A global anomaly!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[View the Printer Friendly PDF There’s an interesting statement of comparisons. By now, most readers have heard or read a variety of new reports or read articles regarding the shallowness of any details for the Europe bailout fund and ancillary components. No matter how you cut it, there isn’t a lot of difference in what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mkgfinancial.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7028073&amp;post=1093&amp;subd=mkgfinancial&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘Tis the Season to be—Scary!</title>
		<link>http://mkgfinancial.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/%e2%80%98tis-the-season-to-be%e2%80%94scary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[View the Printer Friendly PDF After a recent major move in the global stock markets to the upside, we heard sounds that perhaps the markets are now in need of a rest before moving even higher. And while we would definitely concede that the markets have made a strong technical rise out of their third [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mkgfinancial.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7028073&amp;post=1073&amp;subd=mkgfinancial&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shopping and My Andy Rooney Moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[View the Printer Friendly PDF I like to shop. Why you may ask. On the assumption you are intrigued, let me tell you: I enjoy it for the discovery process. I also like to talk with friends. We talk sometimes about our day, our life, and our families and about the best value we have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mkgfinancial.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7028073&amp;post=1058&amp;subd=mkgfinancial&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is 10800 the New Top or the Old Bottom of the Market Trading Range?</title>
		<link>http://mkgfinancial.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/is-10800-the-new-top-or-the-old-bottom-of-the-market-trading-range/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[View the Printer Friendly PDF After falling over 250 points to 10404.49 intraday on Tuesday the DJIA rallied 404 points in the last 49 minutes of the day to close up 153.41. This puts the Dow back to the 10800 level and begs the question whether this level is the new top for the current [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mkgfinancial.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7028073&amp;post=1034&amp;subd=mkgfinancial&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Is Not What the World Wants To See at a Time Like This</title>
		<link>http://mkgfinancial.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/this-is-not-what-the-world-wants-to-see-at-a-time-like-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[View the Printer Friendly PDF At a time like this references the current environment in which Europe faces stiff headwinds as it struggles to keep Greece—and other sovereign nations—financially solvent long enough to avoid a financial meltdown that would wreak significant damage to the euro zone. Not what the world wants to see refers to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mkgfinancial.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7028073&amp;post=1019&amp;subd=mkgfinancial&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Wake-up Call to Action—But Will the Administration Hear the Phone Ring?</title>
		<link>http://mkgfinancial.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/a-wake-up-call-to-action%e2%80%94but-will-the-administration-hear-the-phone-ring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[View the Printer Friendly PDF Monday morning throughout the world was met with markets declining in response to the Standard and Poor’s downgrade of U.S. government debt. Yes, we stand corrected. After putting out the MKG Blog last week stating that the U.S. debt rating hadn’t been downgraded—it suddenly was. With the markets closed and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mkgfinancial.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7028073&amp;post=1010&amp;subd=mkgfinancial&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Return to Reality—It Will Always Be About the Economy, Silly!</title>
		<link>http://mkgfinancial.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/a-return-to-reality%e2%80%94it-will-always-be-about-the-economy-silly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[View the Printer Friendly PDF &#160; Now that the budget debates are over and signed by President Obama (more work to be done, but it’ll get the debt ceiling raised and our AAA rating will remain intact), the attention of investors has returned to the economy. While concerns about the U.S. debt crisis had certainly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mkgfinancial.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7028073&amp;post=980&amp;subd=mkgfinancial&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Possibility of a Perfect Storm</title>
		<link>http://mkgfinancial.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/the-possibility-of-a-perfect-storm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[View the Printer Friendly PDF The market has been difficult for investment managers focused on the big picture, in spite of the fact that problems abound.  While volatile, the market has nevertheless continued to perform quite well.  This period occurs when the market is said to be climbing a wall of worry, which markets will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mkgfinancial.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7028073&amp;post=969&amp;subd=mkgfinancial&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Uncertainty, “Black Swans” and the Global Economy</title>
		<link>http://mkgfinancial.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/uncertainty-%e2%80%9cblack-swans%e2%80%9d-and-the-global-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[View the Printer Friendly PDF Nassim Nicholas Taleb developed the “Black Swan Theory” to help explain hard-to-predict and rare events that have a major impact and are subsequently explained as having been predictable in hindsight. He also wrote about the psychological biases that make people blind to uncertainty and unaware of the significant role of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mkgfinancial.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7028073&amp;post=952&amp;subd=mkgfinancial&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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