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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory

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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (89147)11/24/2007 8:10:29 PM
From: bart13  Read Replies (1) of 110194
 

How is that possible?


Leverage available on many futures contracts can easily go over 100:1.

Here's the raw derivatives data from the BIS:
bis.org

"A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him."
-- John Maynard Keynes, "Consequences to the Banks of a Collapse in Money Values", 1931
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