Days back= 252 11 / 1 / 2007 - 10 / 31 / 2008 
Rank  Symbol   Name                             Price   Pct.Gain      
-----------------------------------------       ------- -------- 
      USA  DJI-30                               9350         -32.0% 
 1    EWL     ISHARES MSCI SWITZERLAND INDEX    18.3         -33% 
      USA  SP-500                               96.83        -12.9%
 2    ITF     ISHARES S&P-TOPIX 150 INDEX FUND  39.89        -36%           
 3    EWJ     ISHARES MSCI JAPAN INDEX           8.99        -37%         
 4    JOF     JAPAN OTC EQUITY FUND              6.45        -39%          
 5    HKG     NETS Hang Seng Index              14.62        -41%       
 6    PWJ     PaineWebber Group                 14.35        -41%        
 7    IXN     ISHARES S&P GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY     39.85        -43%          
 8    IXP     ISHARES S&P GLOBAL TELECOMM       46.68        -43%           
 9    VPL     Vanguard Pacific Stock VIPERs     42.13        -43%           
 10   EWM     ISHARES MSCI MALAYSIA (FREE)       7.15        -44%           
 11   EWC     ISHARES MSCI CANADA INDEX         19.18        -46%           
 12   EWP     ISHARES MSCI SPAIN INDEX          35.45        -47%          
 13   EWG     ISHARES MSCI GERMANY INDEX        18.48        -48%        
 14   EWQ     IShares MSCI France               20.5         -48%           
 15   FEZ     FRESCO DOW JONES EURO STOXX 50    32.95        -48%          
 16   VGK     Vanguard European Stock VIPERs    41.72        -48%          
 17   EWT     ISHARES MSCI TAIWAN INDEX          8.82        -49%      
 18   EWW     ISHARES MSCI MEXICO (FREE) INDEX  30.9         -49%          
 19   IEV     ISHARES S&P EUROPE 350 INDEX FUND 31.39        -49%         
 20   ILF     ISHARES S&P LATIN AMERICA 40 INDEX  26.6       -49%          
 21   EWU     ISHARES MSCI UK INDEX             13.36        -50%          
 22   EKH     HOLDRS EUROPE 2001                46.1         -51%               
 23   EZU     ISHARES MSCI EMU INDEX            29.96        -52%              
 24   TFC     TAIWAN GREATER CHINA FUND          3.97        -52%               
 25   CH      CHILE FUND                        10.02        -53%        
 26   EEM     ISHARES MSCI EMERGING MARKETS     25.49        -53%           
 27   EZA     ISHARES MSCI SOUTH AFRICA INDEX   34.52        -53%          
 28   EWI     ISHARES MSCI ITALY INDEX          16.47        -54%                  
 29   EWN     ISHARES MSCI NETHERLANDS INDEX    14.95        -54%          
 30   EWS     ISHARES MSCI SINGAPORE INDEX       7.03        -54%          
 31   EPP     ISHARES MSCI PACIFIC EX-JAPAN     26.38        -55%          
 32   EWA     ISHARES MSCI AUSTRALIA INDEX      15.15        -55%          
 33   EWH     ISHARES MSCI HONG KONG INDEX      10.42        -55%          
 34   EWZ     ISHARES MSCI BRAZIL INDEX         37.96        -55%         
 35   VWO     Vanguard Emerging Markets  VIPERs 25.21        -56%         
 36   EWD     ISHARES MSCI SWEDEN INDEX         15.22        -57%         
 37   TWN     TAIWAN FUND                        9.9         -57%               
 38   CHN     CHINA FUND                        19.86        -60%             
 39   SGF     SINGAPORE FUND                     8.1         -60%                  
 40   TF      THAI CAPITAL FUND                  5.99        -60%                   
 41   EWY     ISHARES MSCI SOUTH KOREA INDEX    28.14        -61%         
 42   JFC     JARDINE FLEMING CHINA REGION FUND 13.17        -61%           
 43   PGJ     PowerShares Gldn Dragon USX China 14.74        -61%          
 44   GRR     ASIA TIGERS FUNDS                 11.97        -62%                 
 45   INP     IPATH MSCI INDIA INDEX            32.78        -63%                
 46   KEF     KOREA EQUITY FUND                  5.54        -63%                    
 47   MXF     MEXICO FUND                       16.57        -63%            
 48   FXI     iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Fund 25.16        -64%           
 49   EWO     ISHARES MSCI AUSTRIA INDEX        14.03        -65%                   
 50   EWK     ISHARES MSCI BELGIUM INDEX         9.03        -67%         
 51   IFN     INDIA FUND                        20.35        -68%                         
 52   CEE     CENTRAL EUROPEAN EQUITY FUND      19           -70%          
 53   TRF     TEMPLETON RUSSIA FUND             22           -70%                   
 54   IF      INDONESIA FUND                     4           -71%                    
 55   IIF     MORGAN STANLEY INDIA INV.FUND     15.16        -75%         
 56   GCH     GREATER CHINA FUND                 8.29        -80%      
 57   MF      MALAYSIA FUND                      3.87        -87%      
                            
  TigerSoft Can Keep Investors Out of Big Trouble. 

                              Greenspan Admits He Was Terribly Wrong.         

                         After the Crash of 2008, Greenspan finally admitted he had been wrong to favor de-regulation
               of banks.  On October 23, 2008, he admitted to Congress that he was wrong to have trusted the
               most powerful bankers to  act in their long run self-interest and that of their share holders.  He
               explained:
                                  "I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations,
                           specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of protecting
                           their own shareholders and their equity in the firms."

                          What he should have said was that multi-million dollar bonuses determined the
                self-interests of Banking CEOs and Hedge Fund Managers.   To make big short-term profits,
                they lied, obfuscated and hid the truth from investors and shareholders.  They recklessly used
                leverage.    They knowingly gave shareholders and creditors misleading financial information
               and credit reports to exaggerate short-term profits and procure obscene bonuses for themselves.
               They cared little about the consequences to millions whose life-savings and jobs were destroyed
                in the process.  
                     
                               "What’s remarkable about this is    
               that same erroneous belief is THE key pillar of all free market ideology. Without it,
               the entire edifice supporting the market worship fetish of the Libertarians, the Austrian
               School, and most economists collapses into rubble, just as our financial system has
                collapsed. It’s hard to accept that economists could really believe such nonsense;
                I suspect that much of their religious attitude toward markets stemmed from their regular
                 paychecks from corporations benefiting from such dumb, unsupported beliefs." 
                (Blue and Red colors in the original for emphasis. 
                      Stephen Zarlenga, American Monetary Insitute - http://www.monetary.org.  ) 
 
                       See TigerSoft's previous Blogs on Financial Crisis and its Causes.
                          http://www.tigersoftware.com/TigerBlogs/September-18-2008/index.html