commissioner.org
| Source | Money and Markets |
| Date | 08/12/22/20:09 |
| FIRST quarter 2007: Every single wealth sector is still growing, except one — real estate. This $53 billion loss in real estate is a time and place that will go down in history as the great turning point of our era.
Second quarter 2007: Another $190 billion in real estate wealth destroyed. Third quarter 2007: Households suffer a whopping $496 billion in losses — nearly 10 times as much as in the first quarter. Fourth quarter 2007: The wealth destruction spreads to nearly all other sectors. Households lose $708 billion in real estate, the most in history. Plus, they lose $377 billion in stocks, $145 billion in mutual funds, $265 billion in their life insurance and pension reserves. First quarter 2008: The carnage deepens. Households lose $911 billion in stocks, $297 billion in mutual funds and $832 billion in insurance and pension fund reserves. Plus, the losses spread to the last major sector, equity in noncorporate businesses. Second quarter 2008: The Bush economic stimulus package kicks in, and it slows down the pace a bit. But the hemorrhaging continues. Not one single sector recovers. Third quarter 2008: Earth-shattering losses across the board, with households losing ... 1. ANOTHER $647 billion in real estate 2. $922 billion in corporate equities 3. $523 billion in mutual funds 4. $653 billion in insurance and pension fund reserves 5. $128 billion in noncorporate businesses Grand total: Nearly $2.9 trillion in losses — the worst in recorded history. Grand total lost over the past year: $7.2 trillion. |
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