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SOS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-01-09 03:53 PM
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60. Total derivatives = $500 trillion
"Total derivatives amount to over $500 trillion, many of them finding their way onto the balance sheets of SIVs, CDOs and other conduits of their ilk comprising the Frankensteinian levered body of shadow banks."

http://www.pimco.com/LeftNav/Featured+Market+Commentary/IO/2008/IO+January+2008.htm

Of that figure:

Credit Default Swaps Now Total $283 Trillion

http://financialrx.blogspot.com/2006/09/credit-default-swaps-now-total-283.html
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