Cost of crash: $2,800,000,000,000 | Business | The Guardian: "Autumn's market mayhem has left the world's financial institutions nursing losses of $2.8tn, the Bank of England said today, as it called for fundamental reform of the global banking system to prevent a repeat of turmoil 'arguably' unprecedented since the outbreak of the first world war."
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$2.8 trillion here, and another few trillion there, and pretty soon it starts to add up to some serious money.