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To: Road Walker who wrote (522927)	10/23/2009 12:05:32 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584153

"Under the lax standards in effect, investors could plunk down a small fraction of a stock’s value and borrow the rest." In 1929, you had to have 10% of the money you were actually playing with. We've fixed that in the current market available to the public. But, there's STILL another market that hasn't been fixed, the derivatives "shadow" market that the huge players play in, the sovereign wealth funds, giant hedge funds and giant insurance players. I don't know what the leverage is there, but I know that the market is "worth" around $500 TRILLION dollars.