Apocalyptic banking system collapse

By Michael Fraase

Sunday, 13 April 2008 12:07PM CST

Section: Business

Mushroom cloudI don’t do so good with numbers. Never have. As long as I have a calculator or a spreadsheet or Quicken to do the heavy lifting, I’m fine, mostly, but I’m a word guy.

My friend Mike O’Connor, on the other hand, is a wiz with numbers (he’s not too shabby with words either). And he’s uncovered some very disturbing numbers—numbers he’s calling a “canary in the coalmine alert.” Mike’s general nature is as calm as they come; I’ve never seen him even mildly excited. His canary is likely a mushroom cloud.

Here you go; the charts are self explanatory:

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