It's Thursday, December 29th.

Welcome to Market Foolery.

I'm Chris Hill.

It's just me in the studio today with a few thoughts to wrap up 2016.

So as I say whenever this happens, feel free to skip this one.

By the way, I don't say that out of any sort of false modesty or anything like that.

I say that because I'm a podcasting nerd, and as a podcasting nerd, I'm a podcasting nerd and as a podcasting nerd I'm a big believer that a

podcast makes a basic content promise and the content promise of market foolery is

me and an analyst or two discussing the day's business

news and anytime we deviate from that, which we don't do often, but every time we deviate

from that it's just me, I like to just call that out up front.

This weekend on the Motley Full Money Radio Show it is our 2017 preview show we've got industries

to watch stocks to watch reckless predictions so definitely check

that out over the weekend if you're interested. This is the time of year when people make

resolutions not everybody some people doolutions aren't for everyone, but they can be

specific, they can be general. Personally, I don't make resolutions every year. I just don't.

Sometimes I'm just tired and I don't want to make one. I did last year at this time and my

resolution was to run the Marine Corps marathon because I had never run a marathon

before I figured I would give it a shot. I know I've talked

about it a little bit in the past, but I wanted to share just a bit more about that experience

and hopefully tie it into investing in some small way.

I'm not going to bore you with the blow by blow details of the race.

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