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How's it going out there?

It's 2011.

January 5th.

I'm Frank Curzy, a host of the SNA Investor Podcast where I break down the headlines and tell you what's really moving these markets.

Oh, welcome to a new year.

Don't know how new anything is. Stocks are still going up.

Goldman Sachs is allowing its largest clients to pull together to invest in something else nobody has access to.

More in that later.

Economic data still getting better in the US and in Europe as well.

Told you the past few weeks, Europe is not a disaster. Manufacturing index over there is at an eight month high.

Also, I'll cover that later on. But seriously, New Year, same old stories.

And before I get into the news and my guest

who's going to be my buddy Dan Ferris,

who writes the Extreme Value newsletter,

also the 12% newsletter for Stansberry and Associates,

I just wanted to share an interesting story with you.

Now I've been trying to get my trees cut for over eight months around my house and it's been

absolutely horrible. They haven't been cut for like 10 years and in Florida when these trees grow. They really look terrible.

And it's one of the projects that I really needed to do, but I just want to do a lot of other things first.

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