The Biggest Financial Numbers: A Look Around The World

Remember when political and economic leaders triumphed the idea that they had solved what could have been the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression?

And, remember how politicians and technocrats championed the idea that they had solved part of the "problem" by punishing banks with new regulations, including passage and/or implementation of Dodd-Frank and Basel III?

Well, here is a look at what the world's biggest financial numbers look like today with a discussion of how they looked in the past.

(If there were ever any question...