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Banks May Lose $325 Billion According To J.P. Morgan Report

by markjabo on March 10th, 2008

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J.P. Morgan released a report today that suggested banks stand to lose up to $325 billion as a result of the ongoing mortgage crisis.

Analysts for the brokerage house said the banking system faces a “systemic margin call” which is Wall Street jargon for “a real sh**storm.”

Attempting to give our readers some perspective on the number, members of the Bizlevity research staff (Google and me) have put together the following examples of just what $325 billion would buy:

  •  1,140 Boeing 747s — Two planes each for every player, head coach, first assistant coach and two cheerleaders per team in the NBA
  • 974,951 Rolls-Royce Phantoms — Roughly one each for every man, woman and child in Detroit
  • 651,302,605 iPhones (the top-of-the-line 16GB ones) — An iPhone for every person in the United States, Russia, Japan, the United Kingdom and Australia
  • Norway (according to most recent GDP figures)
  • $1,100 for each of the 36.7 million people who visited Las Vegas last year.  Each one of these people could lose the entire amount every year for 8 years.  And there’d still be $2 billion left over to spend on hookers

When told of the report, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke sat down in a corner, curled up in a ball and started sucking his thumb.

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One of them wouldn’t get their own plane

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