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Citicorp has a $2 trillion balance sheet - twice the size of AIG’s, or the same size roughly as AIG and Goldman combined. Why do I use the AIG/GS analogy? Because we can assume Citi’s assets are of kind and quality as both AIG and GS. I took a look at Citi’s latest quarterly filing [...]

The stock market lost 90% of it’s value during the early part of the Depression. It took from 1929-1933. Four long years with some big rebounds. The Fed isn’t contracting money supply this time though. However, the debt levels present ($62Trillion in derivatives) and future (SS and Medicare) are so much greater that it seems [...]