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45 percent of world's wealth destroyed: Blackstone CEO | Reuters
is this just a guess, or is there really a way to calculate/estimate it
that's a hell of a lot of money"Between 40 and 45 percent of the world's wealth has been destroyed in little less than a year and a half," Schwarzman told an audience at the Japan Society. "This is absolutely unprecedented in our lifetime."
But the U.S. government is committed to the preservation of financial institutions, he said, and will do whatever it takes to restart the economy.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner plans to unfreeze credit markets through a new program that will combine public and private capital in a fund that would buy bank toxic assets of up to $1 trillion
is this just a guess, or is there really a way to calculate/estimate it