Crisis or no crisis, the amount of money sloshing around planet finance still boggles the mind.
By one measure, the US stock of money is now $8.7 trillion, up 12% since last year.
And some people are still pocketing a huge share of that cash.
Last year, despite the onset of the biggest financial crisis since the Depression
his hedge fund paid George Soros a cool $2.4 billion.
That's roughly 41,000 times more than the average American family earned.
As they say on Wall Street, "Way to go".