Re: The global effects of the disaster that is the US subprime mortgage market
I still cant get over the fact that BearStearns alone was counterparty to $10 trillion worth of such trades. Thats more than 1/6th of the entire world's GDP.
My brain just freezes up, like a freaking 386DX spitting out a syntax error message. I can't even process that fact yet.
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