Nor does the level of demand for MBS or credit default swaps.Additionally, mortgage debt owed by U.S. household was > $12 Billion before the housing crisis in 07/08.

He was a billionaire when he died in 2002.Maurice Wilder, and my first partner in my first park, started with one park in 1970, died earlier this year with a net worth of almost a half a billion dollars even after giving up over $100,000,000 in a divorce settlement several years ago.

Its advanced linking algorithms scour billions of public and proprietary records—on an estimated 95% of the U.S. population—to deliver a comprehensive profile of people or businesses in seconds."

In fact there is a guy running for President who made 9 billion Dollars doing real estate  Unlike the stock market where value is determined by what the herd will pay, even if the company is going down the toilet, real estate has intrinsic value.  

Recently my company was absorbed by a multi billion dollar lender.

You would instantly have hundreds of billions of dollars fleeing the country for investments in other countries.

.$400+ billion debt.

If I knew that, I'd be on Wall St making a billion dollars. :)

His Los Angeles- based investment firm has raised more than $25 billion.

If they were that easy to predict #1 they wouldn't happen (interventions would prevent them) and #2 there'd be a LOT more rich people as billions would be available for those that could market time.