Money Chart

Cirrus

I don't know how many of you have seen this, but here's a chart showing all the money in the world. I think it's pretty cool. Makes you realise how insignificant the cost of, say, sending a man to the moon was in the grand scheme of things.

http://xkcd.com/980/huge/#x=-6432&y=-8624&z=5

Hertz32

total economic production of the human race: $2.4 quadrillion 
Holy crap... A 59 Les paul is starting to look like rather good value!

johnnyurq

A mere bagatelle I have more down the back of me sofa, yeah right!

axisus

Interesting ......... I think I'll print a massive copy out at work for more inspection.

VimFuego

interesting to think that the global derivatives bubble is "valued" at over 1 quadrillion dollars. That's reckoned to be 190k for each body on the planet.

ChrisMusic

So all we need is a massive prick to burst the massive bubble then.

I seem to remember Ben Bernanke, American economist and chairman of the Federal Reserve, saying in a lecture, that the total losses of the sub-prime crisis, which triggered all of this hell we are in today, was no more in value terms than a bad day on Wall Street.

Look at what a crisis of confidence can do.

And then we will not support Lehman Brothers !!!

Five years ago now, and the rest, as they say, is history.