Brian Preston, the money guy, restoring order to your financial chaos, retirement, investing, taxing, you've got financial questions, he's got financial answers.

It's Brian Preston, the money guy.

It is October 13th, 2006, you know what that means.

It is Friday the 13th, so I didn't know if I was supposed to go download some spooky music.

Maybe bring a black cat into the podcast booth here, but we're just going to play this as we normally do.

The only thing we are going to expand this market and media update, though, just to go over a few additional things that are going on with the current events of the world right now.

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Jumping right into the market data, the markets have been on fire recently.

It kind of scares me. I remember I'm one of those people that's kind of a contrarian on everything.

And when I start to see people get excited, I start wondering well,

do we need to be worried about that we're going to top the market at this point?

So I went out there and did a little research that I'm going to get into an article I found from the Motley Fool soon.

But I first want to talk to you about the numbers.

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