You overlooked the best part of the story regarding the "pool." After the run municipalities were told there was a 2% penalty fee for removing future money and the municipalities still decided to incur this fee.
The pension exposure is around a half of one percent...$760+ million.
The sub-prime is two and one-half trillion dollars. The CDOs may be infinity. Infinity is a big number at last glance.
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