| You are invited to extend this simple model. To do so, please make | your own copy, and make your extensions to that copy, using the free | Internet Business Logic system at www.reengineeringllc.com | | Please feel free to write other models also. | | For an overview of the Internet Business Logic system, please see | | www.reengineeringllc.com/A_Wiki_for_Business_Rules_in_Open_Vocabulary_Executable_English.pdf | | Please also see the online tutorials. BISDERIV has a value of about $ some-DERIV-amount trillion the approximate sum of the world's real assets is $ some-real-total trillion that-DERIV-amount / that-real-total = some-long-ratio that-long-ratio rounded to 0 place(s) after the decimal point is some-ratio ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ derivatives have created a leverage of about that-ratio BISDERIV has a value of about $ some-DERIV-amount trillion the approximate sum of the world's real assets is $ some-real-total trillion that-DERIV-amount - that-real-total = some-artificial-amount ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the artificial amount created by derivatives is roughly $ that-artificial-amount trillion WSB has a value of about $ some-WSB-amount trillion WRE has a value of about $ some-WRE-amount trillion that-WSB-amount + that-WRE-amount = some-total ----------------------------------------------------------------------- the approximate sum of the world's real assets is $ that-total trillion some-item -- some-name -- had an estimated approximate value of $ some-amount trillion as of end 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- that-item has a value of about $ that-amount trillion some-item -- some-name -- had an estimated approximate value of $ some-amount trillion as of end 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- that-item has full name that-name this-item -- this-name -- had an estimated approximate value of $ this-amount trillion as of end 2007 =============================================================================================== USGDP U.S. annual gross domestic product 15 USMS U.S. money supply 15 USB Current proposed U.S. federal budget 3 USLD U.S. government's maximum legal debt 9 USMUT U.S. mutual fund companies manage 12 WGDP World GDP for all nations 50 USSMED Unfunded Social Security and Medicare benefits 60 WRE Total value of the world's real estate 75 WSB Total value of world's stock and bond markets 100 BISD2002 BIS valuation of world's derivatives back in 2002 100 BISDERIV BIS 2007 valuation of the world's derivatives 516 | Data Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/derivatives-new-ticking-time-bomb/story.aspx?guid={B9E54A5D-4796-4D0D-AC9E-D9124B59D436} | This file is an application written in the language Executable English. | You can view, run and change it by pointing a browser | to www.reengineeringllc.com and selecting Derivatives1.