Наверное где-то тут скрыт ответ на вопрос о том когда всё это страшное кончится. Только умножить надо на какой-то коэффициент >1. Когда всё это гно прогорит, вместе с тем к чему оно прилипло, тогда и можно предположить достижение "дна". Пока же только порядка 4 сгорело (глядя на бейлауты).
"The bundling of consumer loans and home mortgages into packages of securities — a process known as securitization — was the biggest U.S. export business of the 21st century. More than
$27 trillion of these securities have been sold since 2001, according to the Securities Industry Financial Markets Association, an industry trade group. That's almost
twice last year's U.S. gross domestic product of $13.8 trillion." —
- Bloomberg
"Securitization was based on the premise that a fool was born every minute,'' Joseph Stiglitz, a professor of economics at Columbia University in New York, told a congressional committee on Oct. 21. ``Globalization meant that there was a global landscape on which they could search for those fools — and they found them everywhere.''
Статья длинная, но много интересного.