Some people believe the Mayan Calendar is forecasting Armageddon to start on December 21, 2012.
Even so, like the Mayan calendar, we will survive the popular forecast of economic doomsday.
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And all this talk about the Mayan calendar and the end of the world?
Or at the very least, the world was poised to end the Mayan calendar gives us two weeks.
Some believe the world will end on 21 December, the end of a 5, 125-year-long cycle in the ancient Mayan calendar.
Some who study the Mayan calendar say the date for the end of the period is not Friday, but Sunday.
The fiscal cliff and the end of the Mayan calendar may go down as two of the biggest non events of 2012.
More disturbing, a recent Reuters survey shows 1 out of 10 people around the world believe the end of the Mayan calendar could mean the end.
Many predicted the end of the world would come Friday, the day on which a long phase in the ancient Mayan calendar came to an end.
This is the maker of the premier global luxury car trading at prices that would suggest the Mayan calendar was correct about the world ending in 2012.
The Mayan calendar and the I-Ching may say the world comes to an end next year, but if Beijing has any say on the matter, China will slow, but not implode.
Over 600 members of the end times cult have been detained for spreading rumors of an impending apocalypse on December 21, the day the Mayan calendar is believed to reset for a new cycle.
The Mayan calendar is based on the position of the heavenly bodies -- the sun, the moon and the stars -- and was meant to tell the Mayan people about agricultural and economic trends, said archeologist Alfredo Barrera.
While making predictions about brands is sort of like making predictions about stocks, I do think that there are rational underpinnings that make doing so a bit more realistic than, say, arranging your schedule based on the Mayan calendar.
Assuming we survive the Mayan calendar and the end of the world brought upon us by the China hard landing and Obamacare (yes, I jest), taking on a little extra risk in our investment portfolios is prudent, according to Larry Kantor, head of research at Barclays Capital.
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