U.S. Global Investors, a mutual fund company, had this under "Opportunity" in its latest weekly newsletter:
Governmental efforts to inject capital into the nation’s financial system could, in time, help to restore more normal lending conditions.
This is somewhat surprising in that U.S. Global Investors generally has a conservative slant. It looks like some conservatives think government can do some good besides fight wars in far off places.
On the other hand, this is the company that sent out New Year's greetings in many languages and, according to my son, had two errors in the Japanese greeting. I shouldn't complain too much, I switched two letters when I typed it in Japanese, which meant that two characters were absolutely wrong.
I meant to type
Akimashite Omedetto Gozaimasu
but I typed
Akimashite Omedetto Goazimasu
which gave
あきましておめでっとごあじます
My son said he, his wife, and her family had a good laugh over it. He wrote me that it should be
Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu
which should be
あけましておめでとうございます
Now you are probably think I'm smart in Japanese. Well, I'm not. I may know a few hundred words, but I never had strong enough incentive to study it well. What is smart is my computer, a Mac. I just pull down from the menu a languare and type away. In the case of Japanese I type the Roman characters and the computer automagically converts them into Japanese characters.
