Erick Tippett

Which Banks Are More Risky, The Largest EU or U.S. Banks?

Mr. Hunkar,

This is all quite well stated by you concerning the leverage ratio
and exposure to risk levels of this country compared to europe.
This should be no surprise to anyone with some knowledge of
the history of europe and this country though they probably
would not have attained in the educational system here, such
as it is.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois

Geithner Creates Buying Opportunity in Financial ETFs

Sir Schwarz,

Financial ETFs the "big play of 2009".....? sure, the shorts!

EDT
Chicago, Illinois

The Escalator of Life Is Going Down (Part 2)

Dear Sir:

Your incisive, detailed data, and apparent political view miss
the point! There is non longer a republican or democratic party,
they have been replaced by the 'republicrat' political system herdishly supported by a brainwashed and and uninformed american public. When those bailout packages were approved by congress, I watched in disgust as the tallies counted showed republican and democratic votes and not one single independent! You know, this issue of the central bank creation and the 1913 bill that created the Federal reserve Bank here has been a point of contention since its inception! If you care to trouble yourself with a litte historical invesitgation in your local Google search you will find that Representative Luis McFadden once, chairman of the house committee on banking and finance during the late twenties denounced the Federal Reserve Board and President Herbert Hoover as the cause of the Great Depression then underway. Response to his protests were several attempts to assassinate him (one when he was on his way to lunch in a New York City hotel restaurant) and one attempt to poison him (in the same restuarant that day!). It appears to me that the more things appear to change the more they remain unchanged. From what I'm seeing in these election and re-election of crony politicians, the statement made by Adolph Hitler just before the Second World War II comes to mind: "it is such a wonderfulf thing for governments that the people don't think!"

That to me sums up this whole historical-economic american slop
jar of a problem!

EDT
Chicago, Illiinois