The Trillions, The Trillions

$1.3 trillion--total value of the "sub-prime" mortgages
$2.5 trillion--total value of investments through U.S. hedge funds
$2.7 trillion--U.S. Federal government expenditure (2007)
$3.5 trillion--total value of U.S. money market funds
$11.4 trillion--total U.S. household debt, including mortgage loan and consumer debt, (2005)
$11.5 trillion--the combined assets of U.S. mutual funds
$17 trillion--market value of U.S. publicly-traded shares (2005)
$19.8 trillion--total U.S. household real estate assets (2006)
$43.6 trillion--the global market capitalization for all stock markets (2006)
$50 trillion--total U.S. financial assets
$62.5 trillion--total U.S. household assets, including real estate, equipment, and financial instruments such as mutual funds (2005)
$140 trillion--the world's total financial assets

A PEBBLE IN OUR SHOE


Largest shape represents total world financial assets, next largest shape total U.S. financial assets. Small black shape represents relative size of total securitized sub-prime mortgage assets held by financial institutions.