British investors end up with net financial and other assets (mostly bonds) equivalent to 6% of GDP.

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Financial panics destroy consumer spending by eating into everyone's net worth, evenly split today between homes and financial assets.

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When the FDIC and regulators went in audited these financial institutions, they found the net worth had been generated by inflared valuations of assets held as collateral for loans.

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