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To: jim_p who wrote (9105)	4/9/2008 4:26:50 PM
From: crdesign	Respond to of 50766

jim, I can't back your smart philosophies any more than what I see on a yellowing piece of newsprint thumbtacked to my office bulletin board for almost 7 years; IBD/ September 7, 2001 Front page, Top left hand chart. ...Speaks volumes about our future. The image, portrays the Nikkei topped @ 38,000 just prior to my college graduation (1991). And now where is it? (a rhetorical question) You & the bright people on this thread saw it coming for a very long time. Everyone In our fair land should hunker down... for at least a decade. JMHO, Tim

To: jim_p who wrote (9105)	4/10/2008 10:35:36 AM
From: Fiscally Conservative	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50766

Jim: You wrote; "It took Japan a decade to run up $500 billion in losses and were only in the first year of de-leveraging and we are already hearing estimates of $1 trillion in losses." I do agree with you bearish stance yet am inclined to disagree with the enormity in a comparable relationship with Japan's $500 bil in losses and the U.S's (estimated $1 trillion?),in that the US GDP is far superior than that of Japans and any absorbtion in de-leveraging should not be justification for comparison. Not only that but our de-leveraging is on a global landscape that will be share by more than us. Granted,I realize you might only be trying to show how deep the doo-do truly is. Japan — GDP: $4.218 trillion (2006 est.) United States — GDP: $13.13 trillion (2006 est.)