I'm glad that you so clearly attested to the health of WaMu. We crazy folks on FR wouldn't know a financial statement to save our life.
It looks like WaMu's investors love this stock as well, as the last year's graph shows:
Perhaps they were paid actors....was NBC televising this event? Actually, WAMU has grown it's leverage ratio from about 5.6% in 9/07 to 7.8% in 6/08. Wachovia by way of comparison is around 6.6% (not that they're a role model or such). So no run yet. And they've added an extra $10bn in fresh capital since the end of June in an effort to quell continued speculation over its financial health. per the Financial Times on Friday. Amazingly, the SEC didn't put WAMU on its Naked Short prohibition list, so I guess the SEC is ok with the naked shorts having their way for a while longer.
OH, and a lot of the 'headline' losses are simply a write-down of the Goodwill for Golden State, the source of WAMU's headaches ( a zero expense writedown).