On the lighter side of the crisis...

Just more than 1 year ago Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) paid $100bn for ABN Amro (80% cash).

For this amount, RBS could today buy:

• Citibank $22.5bn,
• Morgan Stanley $10.5bn,
• Goldman Sachs $21.0bn,
• Merrill Lynch $12.3bn,
• Deutsche Bank $13.0bn and
• Barclays $12.7bn,
  And still have $8bn change!!!