The numbers below prove that the global financial Ponzi scheme is far more extensive than most people would ever dare to imagine. The total amount of debt in the world is now more than three times greater than global GDP. In other words, you could take every single good and service produced on the entire planet this year, next year and the year after that and it still would not be enough to pay off all the debt. Â
But even that number pales in comparison to the exposure that big global banks have to derivatives contracts. At the low end of the estimates, the total exposure that global banks have to derivatives contracts is 710 trillion dollars. That is almost unimaginable. There is really not all that much actual “money” in circulation today. There is only a little bit more than a trillion dollars of U.S. currency that you can actually hold in your hands in existence. If we all tried to close our bank accounts and investment portfolios at once, that would create a major league crisis.Â
When Americans think about the financial crisis that we are facing, the largest number that they usually can think of is the size of the U.S. national debt. And at over 17 trillion dollars, it truly is massive. But it is actually the 2nd-smallest number on the list below. The following are 12 numbers about the global financial Ponzi scheme that should be burned into your brain…
-$1,280,000,000,000 – Most people are really surprised when they hear this number. Â Right now, there is only 1.28 trillion dollars worth of U.S. currency floating around out there.
-$17,555,165,805,212.27 – This is the size of the U.S. national debt. Â It has grown by more than 10 trillion dollars over the past ten years.
-$32,000,000,000,000 – This is the total amount of money that the global elite have stashed in offshore banks (that we know about).
-$48,611,684,000,000 – This is the total exposure that Goldman Sachs has to derivatives contracts.
