he's michael farr, president of investment firm farr, miller and washington, and author of "the arrogance cycle". michael, welcome back. nice to see you again. >> thank you, tom, nice to be here, always. >> tom: so what do you think is contributing to this investor exhaustion and not panic? >> oh, boy. the exhaustion, i think is kind of easy to figure out. i mean day after day of one money points to the upside and downside. investors are being deluged with all sorts of different types of news. i mean, even today, whether we were going to hear whether papandreou was going to go ahead with a vote, he wasn't going to do it. he was going to resign, europe was going to collapse. m.f. financial is back on the ropes. investors don't begin ton what to make of all of this noise and they certainly don't like the volatility. >> tom: how do you protect against exhaustion and stay in it for the long run? >> that's really what you have to do. you have to fend off emotion at pretty much every chance that you can and go back to your discipline, go back to your philosophy, and really as important as anyth

michael farr, author of "the arrogance cycle," is back as our "street critique" guest. you still have time to email your questions to streetcritique@nbr.com. >> susie: discounted prices and educated consumers weren't enough to keep retailers syms and filene's basement out of bankruptcy court. the stores had a rough time in the sour economy, even after syms bought filene's two years ago. syms filed for bankruptcy protection today and said it would shut down all 46 of its stores by the end of january. >> tom: angie's list, the consumer review website, puts itself up for the ultimate review. it plans to raise as much as $114 million in its initial public stock offering. the company will sell almost nine million shares for between $11 and $13, according to a filing today with the securities and exchange commission. the company expects to price the offering on november 16. the stock will trade on nasdaq under the symbol a-n-g-i. >> susie: with that solid gain on the dow today, it looks like november could be picking up where october left off when it comes to market rallies.