> As in, there are lots and lots of investment funds/pension funds/other such like financial entities which are very heavily tied to the "performance" of equity, and I'm talking about trillions (at this point) of dollars, and if that equity were to get a, let's say, 20 or 30% hair-cut in a matter of two-three months (at most), then we'll for sure be back in October 2008 mode.

Just curious, can you detail how it would fail exactly?

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crowcroft 4 days ago | parent [-]

Anytime there's a massive draw down equities an asset-liability mismatch shows up (margin calls) because someone was borrowing money to spend in the short term against the value of assets that have now disappeared.

It might not be the catastrophic cascading failure of the GFC, but someone somewhere in the pile will get exposed.

	▲	littlestymaar 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ah yes I see. It's the idea that somewhere, somehow, there is debt that's funding all of this, even if it's very indirect.