February 2009

And You Wonder Why You Feel Bad

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Up with the chickens today and reading the latest news online.

Generally this starts at my Yahoo home page.

Today it dawned on me that everything I was reading was negative – everything.

Here is a list of the negative phrases that were used on the FIRST page of my Yahoo Finance page: [click to continue…]

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