Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Scale of global credit crisis is staggering

The total amounts of credit default swaps (a form of debt insurance) outstanding is at $45.5 trillion --about twice the value of the US stock market, and three times the value of the US GDP (($13 trillion). This could lead "to a generalized meltdown of the financial system of a severity and magnitude like we have never observed before."

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