01-03-2009, 12:11 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Iâve just started reading Matthias Changâs âThe Shadow Money Lendersâ and already in the introduction itâs plain that the scope of the the scam - the derivatives market, is monumental. Cheching out the Apendices, as of Sept 30, 2007, JP Morgan Chase & Co had about $92,000,000,000,000 thatâs USD $92 trillion dollars worth of derivatives yet only $1 trillion worth of assets. And this pattern is repeated across the board. Citygroup is next, $39 trillion derivatives, $2.4 trillion assets. This pattern repeats itself for the 25 magacrop institutions presented, giving a total derivative holding of $179 trillion yey only $10 trillion assets.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->