No Cassino Global, anatomia do colapso: 228 trilhões em papéis-fantasia implodem mega-bancos.
São 15x PIB-EUA, ou 3x PIB-Terra. Mas eles só tem 0,5% disso.
$1,000,000,000,000 - When they throw around the word "Trillion" like it is nothing, this is the reality of $1 trillion dollars. The square of pallets to the right is $10 billion dollars. 100x that and you have the tower of $1 trillion that is 465 feet tall (142 meters).To get a better idea of the massive amounts of money that we are talking about, just check out this excellent infographic. Warren Buffett once referred to derivatives as "financial weapons of mass destruction". Nobody really knows the total value of all the derivatives that are floating around out there, but estimates place the notional value of the global derivatives market anywhere from 600 trillion dollars all the way up to 1.5 quadrillion dollars. According to the Comptroller of the Currency, four of the largest U.S. banks are walking a tightrope of risk, leverage and debt when it comes to derivatives. Just check out how exposed they are :
JPMorgan Chase - Total Assets: $1,812,837,000,000 (just over 1.8 trillion dollars)Total Exposure To Derivatives: $69,238,349,000,000 (more than 69 trillion dollars)
Citibank - Total Assets: $1,347,841,000,000 (a bit more than 1.3 trillion dollars)
Total Exposure To Derivatives: $52,150,970,000,000 (more than 52 trillion dollars)
Bank Of America - Total Assets: $1,445,093,000,000 (a bit more than 1.4 trillion dollars)
Total Exposure To Derivatives: $44,405,372,000,000 (more than 44 trillion dollars)
Goldman Sachs - Total Assets: $114,693,000,000 (yes, jut mere tiny 114 billion dollars)
Total Exposure To Derivatives: $41,580,395,000,000 (more than 41 trillion dollars) That means that the total exposure that Goldman Sachs has to derivatives contracts is more than 362 times greater than their total assets.
