I bet there are a bunch of scared people out there after the crazy week.

Let's talk about not just the crazy week, the crazy year 2008 has been so far for us.

I'm recording this on the 18th of January, which is Friday, so I have not had a chance.

Supposedly, I saw when I went out there and looked at the news wires this morning,

the president is going to put out a proposal, so I won't be able to give you my feedback on that for another week,

but it has been wild out there.

If you're talking about the cycle of market emotions, I think we've run the whole gamut here this week,

because you know, we started out at the beginning of the week with IBM coming out with some pretty good news.

And then, man, have things gotten bad very quickly, and we've seen a huge pullback out there in the financial stocks.

And we're going to be talking about that, and I've actually got a great article.

Let's hopefully go shed some light, give you a little bit of hope, a glimmer of sunshine in all this craziness.

I am the host of the Money Guys Show, Brian Preston.

By day, I am a certified public accountant and a certified financial planner that is doing fee-only financial planning

down here on the south side of Atlanta, and you've joined us here on the Money Guys Show.

We are going to go beyond common sense.

And man, are we going to be on common sense today, because we've got to talk about a lot of these things,

because right now, you guys are probably looking for some type of beacon of hope

to make you feel better about this crazy thing we call investing.

So let's talk about this.

I did write an article back in 2002.

I wrote it back in October, 2002, and it's titled What You Should Know in An Uncertain Market.

So I think it's kind of the timeliness of this is very, very good,

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