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Why Is The World Economy Doomed? The Global Financial Pyramid Scheme By The Numbers


Why is the global economy in so much trouble?

How can so many people be so absolutely certain that the world financial system is going to crash?

Well, the truth is that when you take a look at the cold, hard numbers it is not difficult to see why the global financial pyramid scheme is destined to fail. In the United States today, there is approximately 56 trillion dollars of total debt in our financial system, but there is only about 9 trillion dollars in our bank accounts.

So you could take every single penny out of the banks, multiply it by six, and you still would not have enough money to pay off all of our debts. Overall, there is about 190 trillion dollars of total debt on the planet. But global GDP is only about 70 trillion dollars. And the total notional value of all derivatives around the globe is somewhere between 600 trillion and 1500 trillion dollars.

So we have a gigantic problem on our hands. The global financial system is a very shaky house of cards that has been constructed on a foundation of debt, leverage and incredibly risky derivatives. We are living in the greatest financial bubble in world history, and it isn't going to take much to topple the entire thing. And when it falls, it is going to be the largest financial disaster in the history of the planet.
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I heard one of the consequences of the bail out as it now stands is that a cypriotian (?) euro will have less value than the euro of the other member nations, so now, not all the euros will be the same. I wonder if this happened to some of the other troubled counties if there wouldn't be a black market for trading lesser valued euros.

Alice, have you anything to add to this?

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