Submitted by ssbaker305@yahoo.com, Sep 9, 2008 11:58

The completely unregulated Derivatives market beats them all in the numbers contest. According to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, it currently stands at $180 Trillion. Let's see the government bail us out of that one if it seriously cracks. My prescription for this apocalypse? Since this entire market was formed outside of established legal markets, the president should declare the entire Derivatives market Null and Void. This isn't as crazy as it sounds: remember, for every buyer there is a seller, so this would balance out to zero if all bets were declared invalid. We are not at this financial armageddon yet, but the next president may find himself with a Great Depression scenario, and FDR's options. This is one of them.

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