The 99 Strongest Banks in America

Banking-in the U.S. and globally-has devolved into a colossal Vegas-like casino and bankers have become the ultimate whale gamblers. The global banking system today has an estimated $1.2 quadrillion dollars in a kind of monetary heroin called derivatives.* The figure is mind-numbing but just to give you a sense of the size of this madness here it is with the appropriate number of zeroes (15): $1200000000000000. Or it may be more entertaining if you think of it this way: If you had a job that paid you $1000 per second it would take more than 31 years for you to earn $1 trillion. A quadrillion is 1000 trillion. It's a big number. And I repeat there are now $1.2 quadrillion dollars in derivatives held by financial institutions in the U.S. and abroad.