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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Hi Money Matters Fans- This is worth reading and joining, Marc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This Unusual Letter Is About Getting Common-Sense Results …<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Brad Hoppmann</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> | <i>July 4, 2012</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#FFFFCC;border:solid #999999 1.0pt'><tr><td style='border:none;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width=75 style='width:56.25pt;border:solid #999999 1.0pt;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:5.25pt'><tr><td style='border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=75 height=94 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01CD5C1B.48BDC0C0" alt="Description: Monty Agarwal"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><i><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Editor’s Note:</span></i></b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> As we celebrate our great nation’s birthday and all the freedoms we hold dear, my colleague Brad Hoppmann has some timely thoughts to share with you today. He’ll show you a simple move you can make right now to help honor, reclaim and preserve your financial freedom that I think you can appreciate. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>And frankly, here on America’s 236th birthday, I can’t think of a better time to share this with you. Enjoy, and have a safe, happy and healthy Fourth of July holiday! — Monty<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>You’re among the first to see this …</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“Let’s Crack the Whip on<br>Washington’s Financial Insanity!”</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Join the Campaign for<br>Common Sense in Government … Taking a Stand<br>for America’s Values and Your Future</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dear Friend and Fellow Citizen, Taxpayer, Saver and Investor,<o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width=50 style='width:37.5pt;margin-right:15.0pt;margin-bottom:5.25pt'><tr><td style='background:#CCCCCC;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=125 height=184 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CD5C1B.48BDC0C0" alt="Description: http://finance.moneyandmarkets.com/media/images/editor-photos/misc/brad-hoppmann.jpg"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>After living the good life we’ve earned — and after enjoying decades of unbridled prosperity — we Americans find ourselves at a crossroads.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>I’m talking about the global financial crisis … a massive downturn that reaches nearly every human on the planet … a turning point that will most definitely transform our country’s future, the <i>world’s</i> future, for years to come.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>And if you ask our leaders and representatives in Washington, there’s only one solution to our crisis that’s not “politically impossible.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The solution they’re selling: More spending, more bailouts and more entitlements.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Well, guess what … we’ve been here before.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Every one of those statements was just as true in 1959 as it is in 2012. Then, as now, America was at a crossroads. Then, in the aftermath of World War II and the Great Depression, American citizens were being sold on the solution of greater government spending. It was the “only” solution.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>But citizens — 12 million of them, in fact — joined together to demand another solution. And the new solution that came about back in 1959 <i>because they demanded it</i> was pivotal to American history … that’s because it was one that helped pave the way for decades of prosperity that followed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In short, American voters discovered the very solution we’re going to use again <i>today</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>But before I tell you precisely what I mean, something should be absolutely clear …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This Unusual Letter Is About Getting Common Sense Results</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This is your invitation to join a coalition of responsible American citizens. A group that will stand together behind a single, simple and responsible goal: <b>To give our representatives in government a choice …</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Either they produce a balanced budget by the year 2020, <br>or they find a new job. </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=305 height=71 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.gif@01CD5C1B.48BDC0C0" alt="Description: http://finance.moneyandmarkets.com/reports/SDC/img/SDC-logo.gif"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>A <i>real</i> balanced budget too … not some phony statistical manipulation. They need to reduce spending to sustainable levels and restore the “Sound Dollar” policies that have preserved American prosperity for over 200 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>It’s that simple.</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Where political parties sell convoluted “solutions,” we have a single, common-sense goal. And where protest groups have aimless rage, we have a responsive organization dedicated to clear and attainable goals — backed by a legacy of civil action reaching back over five decades.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We are a responsible and reasonable group of Americans. We are educated, empowered and dedicated toward a common goal — a goal that we <i>will</i> achieve. Again. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>That’s because we understand one simple fact:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>As American voters, it’s our right and responsibility <br>to determine <u>our</u> future.</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>It’s a solemn duty … a forgotten legacy of our forefathers, that Dr. Martin Weiss’ own father ensured he’d remember … that I’m sharing with everyone now.</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width=50 style='width:37.5pt;margin-right:15.0pt;margin-bottom:5.25pt'><tr><td style='background:#CCCCCC;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=174 height=439 id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image004.gif@01CD5C1B.48BDC0C0" alt="Description: http://finance.moneyandmarkets.com/reports/SDC/img/irv-ber.gif"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>That’s all there is to it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>With this simple rallying cry, one skinny stockbroker mustered an army of 12 million responsible American voices — from ex-presidents to business leaders and even financial legends like Bernard Baruch. Standing together with lawyers, doctors and regular American citizens, they were a force to be reckoned with.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>So before I tell you about our organization, I’d like to tell you about our roots. About how this solution has “worked” before, even when Washington thought it was impossible. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>I’d like to tell you about the incredible legacy we’re working to live up to, and the responsible American citizens who shaped their own future for the better.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>I’d like to tell you about the Committee for a Sound Dollar that united citizens across the country in telling Congress that it was time for their days of overspending to come to an immediate end …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The ‘Customer’s Man’ Who Started it All</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>It all started with J. Irving Weiss … who was by no means a politician.<o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=right width=50 style='width:37.5pt;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:5.25pt'><tr><td style='padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:17.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-left:right;mso-element-top:middle;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=211 height=327 id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image005.jpg@01CD5C1B.48BDC0C0" alt="Description: http://finance.moneyandmarkets.com/reports/SDC/img/irv-2.jpg"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>He was a customer’s man … a stockbroker. And he was good at his job.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Starting his career with a $500 loan from his mother, he quickly built a $100,000 stake for himself. Over the next few years, he’d work with clients like Joe Kennedy — patriarch of the Kennedy dynasty — to help guide their investments … making fortunes and powerful connections all the way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>By the way, he did all of this <i>during</i> the Great Depression.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>He was guided by his discipline, his hard work and his will to stand up for the truth — even if that meant standing alone. And on these virtues, he built his fortune and his business … while so many others crumbled around him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>But that’s only the beginning of his story. Because J. Irving Weiss was also becoming a prominent name in financial publishing. He was building a reputation for showing others how to thrive and even prosper through one of the hardest times in American history.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Sure, J. Irving had a benevolent streak. But he also had a bit of a temper when it came to some things. He had lines that you just didn’t cross.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>And in January of 1959, the U.S. Congress crossed one of those lines …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Advertisement<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Beginning of a 50-Year War for America’s Value</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>You see, the president at the time — Dwight D. Eisenhower — knew where the future was headed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In his own words …<o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width=50 style='width:37.5pt;margin-right:15.0pt;margin-bottom:5.25pt'><tr><td style='background:#CCCCCC;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=100 height=127 id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image006.jpg@01CD5C1B.48BDC0C0" alt="Description: http://finance.moneyandmarkets.com/reports/SDC/img/eisenhower.jpg"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“We must avoid extremes … of waste and inflation which could reduce job opportunities, price us out of world markets and shrink the value of savings. To keep our economy sound and expanding, I shall … present to the Congress a balanced budget.”</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Weiss couldn’t agree more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>After all, he made a fortune on the follies of big spenders and debt-laden companies. Financial moderation was the <u>only</u> sustainable way of life, as far as he was concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>So when President Eisenhower proposed a balanced budget in 1959, and Congress resoundingly refused that budget — saying that it “comes close to being a fraud on the American people” — well, they crossed a very serious line … profoundly upsetting J. Irving Weiss.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>He wasted no time in responding.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Millions of Responsible Voices — One Clear Goal</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Weiss called on his friends and associates, ex-clients and business partners for help. The original 17 founders came together and called themselves the “Sound Dollar Committee.” They quickly devised a strategy and started working together.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Their methods turned out to be brilliantly simple, and remarkably effective …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>They started with a single full-page ad, a great use of Weiss’ marketing expertise to spread news of the budget battle. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The ad urged voters to realize their power … to step up for the value they created, and guarantee a future of opportunity for their children. <o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width=50 style='width:37.5pt;margin-right:15.0pt;margin-bottom:5.25pt'><tr><td style='background:#CCCCCC;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=182 height=169 id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image007.jpg@01CD5C1B.48BDC0C0" alt="Description: http://finance.moneyandmarkets.com/reports/SDC/img/SDC-ad.jpg"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The ad included a cut-out form letter, so a supporter could simply clip out the “coupon” and send it to his or her representative. That way, even the busiest Americans could still participate in a matter of moments.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>They only placed one ad — in the Tuesday issue of <i>The</i> <i>Wall Street Journal —</i> before they got the call …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>It came from an editor at the <i>Chicago Times</i>. He wanted to run the ad twice in his own letters … and he wanted to do it at his own personal expense.<o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=right width=50 style='width:37.5pt;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:5.25pt'><tr><td style='padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Within weeks, the ad was everywhere — <i>Reader’s Digest, Chicago Times, etc. —</i> and the cause was spreading like wildfire. Voters everywhere were finding their voices and making themselves heard in Washington.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Letters … postcards … coupons … some 12 million pieces of mail in total flooded the halls of Congress simultaneously. Each and every one with the same, simple message:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Balance the budget, <i>OR ELSE!</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Together, They Changed the Definition of ‘Possible’ in Washington Almost Overnight</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>All at once, Congress changed its tune.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>What they once called a “fraud” upon the American people immediately became a matter of “patriotism.” What had once been “politically impossible” became their single solitary responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Six months into the first “Sound Dollar” effort, the orders were followed and the budget balanced.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>It had a massive impact — catalyzing a new base of voters, reining in representatives and warding off the threat of “financial insanity” in Washington for years. But it was still one of the last balanced budgets for half a century.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>And in that time, the threat of “financial insanity” has become a living, breathing reality …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Remember the Sound Dollar</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>So don’t buy into the hype.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Instead remember the story above — remember the legacy of the Sound Dollar Committee, and the responsible souls who held Washington accountable when it really mattered. Remember how the average citizen can step up to change his government and the course of the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>You might be starting to realize it now … the reason why this is so much more than a legacy for us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This is a solution. This is <i>the</i> solution. It’s a philosophy and a way of life — forgotten in the haste and impatience of today’s hectic world — that can bring us back to center. It’s our best remaining hope for restoring balance and sustainability.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=305 height=71 id="Picture_x0020_8" src="cid:image003.gif@01CD5C1B.48BDC0C0" alt="Description: http://finance.moneyandmarkets.com/reports/SDC/img/SDC-logo.gif"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This is reason … it’s sanity and simple common sense. In other words, it’s <i>exactly what America needs</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>So We’re Making the ‘Sound Dollar’ More Than Just a Memory</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>That’s right. We’re bringing it back …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>America needs it now, more than ever. With our overactive news media and our detached political parties, we need a voice of reason. So, I’m starting <b>The Campaign for a Sound Dollar</b>, in the spirit of J. Irving Weiss’ original Sound Dollar Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We won’t ask you to occupy anything.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>No cardboard signs or party lines either — we’re just looking for responsible citizens who want to make their voices heard. Joining us is as simple as clicking a button and signing the Sound Dollar Petition for a balanced budget.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Make it Happen in a Matter of Minutes at No Expense …</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.sounddollarcampaign.com/petition"><span style='color:blue'>Click here to sign the petition now and join the cause</span></a>, and you’ll have access to a massive amount of resources.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>First, you’ll get a way to make your voice heard immediately. A way you can start taking instant, responsible political action in a fraction of the time it would normally take.</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Signing the petition is just the first step. You’ll receive regular updates from the Sound Dollar Campaign, informing you about the latest financial “sleight of hand” the government keeps playing on us … and you’ll learn what YOU can do about it! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Second, you’ll get the support of a massive, cross-media effort to launch the Campaign.</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width=50 style='width:37.5pt;margin-right:15.0pt;margin-bottom:5.25pt'><tr><td style='background:#CCCCCC;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=200 height=207 id="Picture_x0020_9" src="cid:image008.gif@01CD5C1B.48BDC0C0" alt="Description: http://finance.moneyandmarkets.com/reports/SDC/img/SDC-FB.gif"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Where the original committee had only the U.S. mail and print media, we also have e-mail … Facebook … Twitter … and a laundry list of available media. We’ll be applying large-scale media resources across them all.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>And finally, you’ll get the chance to help directly shape the future of the Campaign, and maybe even the country.</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>It’s a whole world of political expression right there at your fingertips; and it becomes your own personal campaign the moment you sign up. Put your local government on notice … start guiding your representatives at the state level … it’s all up to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>With America at the Crossroads, the ‘Sound Dollar’ Will Ride Again!</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=right width=50 style='width:37.5pt;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:5.25pt'><tr><td style='padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:17.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-left:right;mso-element-top:middle;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=350 height=84 id="Picture_x0020_10" src="cid:image009.gif@01CD5C1B.48BDC0C0" alt="Description: http://finance.moneyandmarkets.com/reports/SDC/img/irv-quote.gif"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>And so once again — like in 1959 — America stands at the crossroads.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The decisions we make today — or the decisions we allow our representatives to make for us — will echo on in America’s future for the next century. Though we may be forgotten, our influence and impact will live on for generations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>So will you take a stand for what’s right? Or will indecision and inaction be your choice?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Stand up for the Sound Dollar. Stand up for simple financial sanity. Stand up for the same balanced budget that works for every citizen, every business and every state in the country. Stand up for the value you’ve helped create, and the future that you know is possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Stand up for the Sound Dollar today, and you won’t be standing alone. Join us in telling Washington it’s time to usher in a new era of financial responsibility and integrity to our great nation — <a href="http://www.sounddollarcampaign.com/petition"><span style='color:blue'>click here to make your voice heard today</span></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=121 height=50 id="Picture_x0020_11" src="cid:image010.gif@01CD5C1B.48BDC0C0" alt="Description: http://finance.moneyandmarkets.com/media/images/mam/img/sig/brad_hoppmann.gif"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br>Brad Hoppmann,<br>Campaign Director<br>The Sound Dollar Campaign<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About the Sound Dollar Campaign:</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Campaign for a Sound Dollar is a grassroots, non-partisan movement calling for the restoration of financial sanity in Washington. Our demands are simple — we are calling for Congress to secure a balanced federal budget by 2020, and keep it balanced into the future, by reducing deficit spending 11.3% each fiscal year through 2020. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We believe a debt-averse Congress — held accountable by debt-averse Americans — will bring back a Sound Dollar … and renewed prosperity for America. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.uncommonwisdomdaily.com/this-unusual-letter-is-about-getting-common-sense-results-14542"><span style='color:blue'>More Sharing ServicesShare</span></a> <a href="http://www.uncommonwisdomdaily.com/this-unusual-letter-is-about-getting-common-sense-results-14542" title=Email><span style='color:blue'>Share on emailEmail</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>{ 2 comments… read them below or <a href="http://www.uncommonwisdomdaily.com/this-unusual-letter-is-about-getting-common-sense-results-14542#respond"><span style='color:blue'>add one</span></a> }<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Thomas Davis Wednesday, July 4, 2012 at 6:41 pm <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>About the Sound Dollar Campaign:<br>Our demands are simple — we are calling for Congress to secure a balanced federal budget by 2020, and keep it balanced into the future, by reducing deficit spending 11.3% each fiscal year through 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>I find one thing incomplete with this strategy as with all programs of this type……you are not addressing probably the biggest obstacle to the prospect of a balanced federal budget.<br>BASELINE BUDGETING. Without a requirement to abolish baseline budgeting in regards to the way federal accounting is practiced makes any efforts/demands to arrive at a balanced budget ineffectual. Add this to your demands and I’ll be happy to support.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.uncommonwisdomdaily.com/this-unusual-letter-is-about-getting-common-sense-results-14542?replytocom=12139#respond"><span style='color:blue'>Reply</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>tomt Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 3:04 am <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>I have respect for Irving, and Martin, and the team at UW. You seem to understand the nature of these events and are willing to expose underlying issues, and maintain unbiased ratings of financial institutions.<br>This campaign seems a bit flawed however;<br>Reducing deficit spending by 11.3% yearly never reaches a 0 deficit.<br>Eliminating overspending is just a start, not an end goal. Downsizing gov. need to be brutal, and swift.<br>Your solution does not address the debt burden, and the impact of rising rates on this gov.<br>There is almost nothing left of the values the population at large had in 1959.<br>You have probably indicated that the debt burden and /or the deficit has gone beyond our ability to pay it,<br>yet today you are preaching hope and 1 ACTION. It is beyond our abilities to pay it off.<br>You can’t help but have an inkling of how pervasive this influence on our government has become, and the scope of cleansing needed to rid the system of its disease, yet today you are preaching hope and ACTION.<br>Even the crowd you do gather with this will begin to wonder, and you will be spending time pursuing information to keep them active signing petitions? I have long since overdosed on supporting activists.<br>You are late in this, and not alone on this subject either. This would have been a hit in 09. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>I do get all the reasons these things weren’t mentioned, and the trying something positive, but there are<br>too many holes in it.<br>Good luck.<br>tom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.uncommonwisdomdaily.com/this-unusual-letter-is-about-getting-common-sense-results-14542?replytocom=12141#respond"><span style='color:blue'>Reply</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Leave a Comment<o:p></o:p></span></p><div 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Roman","serif"'>-38.8<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>S&P 500<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>1,355<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>-12.9<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New 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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>5,663<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>-30.0<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>CAC 40<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>3,169<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>-60.6<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>DAX<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>6,410<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>-125.5<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Asia<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Fri 7/06/12, 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Roman","serif"'>-8.5<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>NIKKEI 225<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>9,021<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>-59.0<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>CSI 300<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New 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